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Old Thu Aug 13, 2009, 07:03am
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I guess if you look hard enough, you can find the smallest speck of fly dropping in even a mountain of ground balck pepper.

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Old Thu Aug 13, 2009, 09:02am
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What A75 did was dangerous and unnecessary. You don't try and take out the knees of a person making a tackle. It is illegal for safety issues.
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Old Thu Aug 13, 2009, 02:41pm
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What A75 did was dangerous and unnecessary. You don't try and take out the knees of a person making a tackle. It is illegal for safety issues.
Dangerous and illegal I get. But I think you're the one piling on with the description of it as "unnecessary". A75 was probably trying to rub the tackler off the ballcarrier, but fell early and wound up on the back of B99's legs.

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Old Thu Aug 13, 2009, 03:33pm
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I know what you are saying, Robert. A run up the middle, bodies may be flying everywhere. If one falls on the back of a players legs, that is a no call.

But if you see a player "dive on the back of the legs" and determine this was an intentional block at the knees, you should call it. From my experience, when you see a chop block, you know it. It just looks bad.
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Old Thu Aug 13, 2009, 03:51pm
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I know what you are saying, Robert. A run up the middle, bodies may be flying everywhere. If one falls on the back of a players legs, that is a no call.
That's not quite what I was writing. I mean that even if you do flag it -- intent not being necessary (we had a thread on an even stranger case of putative chop block recently here, and some pointed that out) -- there's no need to heap on condemnation by describing it as "unnecessary". Fouls are just part of the game, players will risk doing it in an unintended but foreseen case even to their best friends.

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