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Old Wed Jan 27, 2016, 03:38pm
Camron Rust Camron Rust is offline
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Originally Posted by VaTerp View Post
"Dipped his shoulder" implies that doing so is illegal. Its not. The displacement that can occur when an offensive player dips his shoulder is what we are calling. I hear too many refs simply saying, "he dipped his shoulder" to explain a call when there was no displacement and nothing illegal.
Even if the offensive player dips a should and there is enough contact for a foul, it sill isn't automatically on the offensive player. The defender must be legal. If I have a defender not legal and an offensive player with a lowered shoulder, I'm calling the foul on the defense since the defender have a right to be in the spot for the shoulder to matter.
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