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Question about potential blocker or hitting receivers
this is from a fan site but a situation that is often not handled correctly.
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My understanding of the rule is that if the receiver is in front of the linebacker and running towards the linebacker, the linebacker may consider the receiver a potential blocker and respond accordingly. Is this not correct? Or am I letting bigjohn mess with my coaches brain?
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Defense can block same as offense, right? If a defender comes up and plows a receiver in the back, that isn't a block in the back?
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And that is a big difference. One is a 10 yard penalty, the other is a 15 yard penalty.
Based on the OP, I am only going to call this a foul (illegal use of hands BTW) if there is little question that a receiver was going to block then the contact is mostly on the defender. There has to be some advantage for this play, not just some little contact. This is something I usually talk players out of as a Back Judge when it is suspect. Some teams teach this more than others and at the high school level it is usually easy to pick those teams out based on their actions. Many go "head hunting" to hit anyone that is around them even if they are clearly not a threat. Peace
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I wish the NF would clean up the semantics in this rule.
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And did the fan seem to think the receiver would be any less concussed if the play had been flagged?
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I guess it's the "obvious he's in his route" part that needs cleaning up...basically I teach my linebackers that if they think the kid is coming at them, engage him. I don't let them blindside some kid who is already running past them or who is looking back at the QB while they are running. But I don't want some slot guy getting a free shot at my backer on a crack back type block either.
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If B clocks A in the back outside of the FBZ, then SOME kind of illegal contact has occurred, unless A ran directly into a (mostly) stationary B player. (In this case, A has blocked B using his back... albeit probably accidentally.) With B clocking A in the back, I've likely got some sort of personal foul. You just can't do that. There's obviously no DPI in the case described. But if A runs into B and the pass is thrown nearby, there's a case for OPI. |
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