"Unnecessary Block" Flag

[BktBallRef]

Originally Posted by Spence

Let me preface this with the fact that I didn't hear this comment. I was only told this comment was made to a coach.

Play: Long run to the EZ. 20 or so yards behind the play there are some peelback blocks that are made when the runner is inside the 10. Flag is thrown. Supposedly the coach was told that it was due to the block being "unnecessary."

Would this fall under "unsportsmanlike?"

Unsportsmanlike fouls are non-contact fouls. Personal fouls involve illegal contact.

[JugglingReferee]

Originally Posted by BktBallRef

Unsportsmanlike fouls are non-contact fouls. Personal fouls involve illegal contact.

This is the Canadian division of acts as well. We call them Unnecessary Roughness and Objectionable Conduct. UR are OC are not limited to these actions, though.

[FTVMartin]

If the hit is clean and the defender saw it coming, most of the time, it's a "talk to" Could be a flag though. It depends on how the game is going.

[jTheUmp]

Fed rule 9.4.3b:
No player or nonplayer shall:
Charge into or throw an opponent to the ground after he is obviously out
of the play, or after the ball is clearly dead either in or out of bounds.

[GoodwillRef]

Originally Posted by FTVMartin

If the hit is clean and the defender saw it coming, most of the time, it's a "talk to" Could be a flag though. It depends on how the game is going.

Hitting a player obviously out of the play has no provision “if he saw the block coming”, If we don't get this is will lead to retaliation later in the game.

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by FTVMartin

If the hit is clean and the defender saw it coming, most of the time, it's a "talk to" Could be a flag though. It depends on how the game is going.

I think the very fact that the hit came on a player that was out of the play, the hit is by definition NOT clean. Flag it. If not, you're asking for fights.

To the OP: Coach was told the hit was unnecessary, as in Unnecessary Roughness. Unsportsmanlike is a different animal, and treated differently.