Good Block or penalty?

[Rich]

Originally Posted by bigjohn

you guys are nuts. It is slowed down for you and while the shoulders do make contact, the blocker clearly hits the defender with his helmet first, in the helmet.
This is very dangerous and should be flagged every single time.

IHC shall be strictly enforced, my behind.

Clearly? From that angle in that video? You, sir, are the one who's nuts.

[bigjohn]

What angle are you guys talking about the blocker, drops his head and delivers a blow to the defender's head then hits with his shoulder. UNBELIEVABLE!

What do you think spins him around to land on his butt? not the block to his shoulder.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by bigjohn

What angle are you guys talking about the blocker, drops his head and delivers a blow to the defender's head then hits with his shoulder. UNBELIEVABLE!

If a player drops their shoulder, their head goes with them. And considering that most coaches teach players to get low on things like blocks or even running the ball, I do not see how dropping the head all of a sudden it a wrong thing. I never see a block where someone goes completely upright. How in the heck does someone block legally below the waist?

Originally Posted by bigjohn

What do you think spins him around to land on his butt? not the block to his shoulder.

Yeah you are right. Only people that are spun around and land on their butt comes from an illegal block. Of course the fact that he might not have seen the block coming has nothing to do with how he landed. Maybe if he saw him coming, he would have got out of the way. Do you actually coach football?

Peace

[mbyron]

Originally Posted by bigjohn

What do you think spins him around to land on his butt? not the block to his shoulder.

Sorry, but that's not how officials call illegal blocks: we don't infer that they must have happened based on the outcomes. We call them when we see them, and only when we see them (as you seem to be slow to learn).

[TXMike]

Originally Posted by bigjohn

What do you think spins him around to land on his butt? not the block to his shoulder.

This statement essentially removes whatever credibility you had left.

How much football have you watched on film? If you have watched much at all you know that people can see the saem clip and sometimes see different things. Most of us do not see what you see. And my belief is that what you "see" is so far from what most "see" that you should examine why you are seeing something different. It goes back to a proven psychological/neurological concept that says people sometimes see things that are not there because issues inteernal to the viewer. I can give you some references/resources on this phenomenom if you are interested.