He's clearly lining up illegally on a lot of snaps. The problem is nearly every other OT is lining up the exact ****ing same. It's absolutely targeted and I'm glad people on the team are finally saying something on it. Now I'm wondering if any of this turns into a storyline as we go back into another Collinsworth game.

Only been called 4 times all year and 3 are on him. It's not even a question at this point. The evidence is there it is happening ALL OVER football and not being called.

It will. Chris will make it so.

Have to believe the Chiefs are going to send a video package to the league comparing his alignment to other tackles.

Again - tip of the helmet to the beltline. he doesn't have to have his whole head up there.

So take it incrementally to try to account for the angle. Look at where his head is in relation to Smith's head/shoulder. It's dead even with Smith's shoulder. Now look where Smith's OTHER shoulder is in relation to Creed's beltline - right even with it.

So we're talking, at best, a question of inches. Inches that linesman can't see because again, legs in the way AND Smith's head is in the way of Creed's ass.

The official is looking at something from 30 yards away that MIGHT be - might be - a question of inches. With an obstructed view of BOTH critical data points. And he's flagging it in a game where that kind of shit goes unflagged every single play.

Guys run motions that aren't completely perpendicular every play - they start upfield a half a heartbeat early and don't get flagged for it. DL get riiiiiiight up to the edge of the neutral zone every single play - only Dee Ford seems to get called for it. The NFL doesn't just typically overlook questions of mere inches or milliseconds (hell, think of how many delay penalties go uncalled because of the mechanic of looking up to see if the clock is at zero before looking down to see if the ball has been snapped) - they routinely do it.

If the NFL called every penalty the way they're calling Taylor, this league would be bankrupt in 3 weeks.

There's no ****ing way you can say this isn't hugely inequitable and again, I still don't see an actual foundation for a penalty by the strict letter of the rule there when you break it down as I did above.

This is so obviously horseshit that I'm surprised it needs to be pointed out.

Because Chris Collinsworth is a narc.

The league got embarrassed by a broadcaster pointing it out on national television (despite various announcers pointing the same things out w/r/t Lane Johnson for years) and decided to shit on him.

Collinsworth should be black-balled. The former Bengal pro bowler knew EXACTLY what he was doing.

**** that guy.

And touchdowns off the board...

Because there’s little point if we can’t agree on the most basic part of this debate. Until we can agree on whether or not Jawaan is illegally lined up, everything else is pointless to talk about.

Idk what more to say here. I’m just not seeing it.

I tried drawing a line from the tip of Jawaan’s helmet to Creed’s belt line and you can see it just doesn’t make sense. the camera angle makes it a bit ****y but I just can’t see how we can deduce that Taylor isn’t lined up illegally here.

It's exactly the camera angle.

And again, I'm also speaking directly to the 'well what if it's not the camera angle' element of it and saying, if not, it's STILL bullshit. It's 4-6 inches that are wholly irrelevant to the play that are, again, obstructed and a flag thrown by an official who WANTED to throw a flag.

it's just bullshit.

It would only be relevant if they called it against literally any other ****ing tackle...but they aren't. It's just Taylor and it's bullshit.

Oh, and let's assume for the sake of argument he was lined up 6 inches too deep.

Do you think those were the ONLY two snaps he was lined up 6 inches too deep?

It's just completely arbitrary even when they ARE applying it to Taylor only. That's what makes this impossible for Taylor. He can't truly know if/when they're going to throw a flag because as inconsistently as it's being applied throughout the league, it's being applied inconsistently even exclusively as to him.

It's the Angel Hernandez strikezone argument - hitters/pitchers don't even get that mad about bad strike zones. They get mad about inconsistent and imprecise ones. A pitch that is called a ball for my pitcher should be called a ball for theirs. A pitch that gets called a strike for me in the 3rd inning should be called a strike for me in the 7th inning.

And if either of those pitches are actually a little in or out of the zone and technically 'wrong' - players rarely care. What they care about is expectation and consistency.

And the officials are just absolutely ****ing this up in the regard. It's brutally unfair and like I said, it's unlike anything I've ever seen in this game. Guys just don't get picked on like this. Think of how many grabby DBs we've seen in this game who STILL don't get a bullseye on their backs game in, game out.

This is just insane.

Let's talk about the elephant in the room.

When are they gonna call Taylor for this in January? It sure feels like that's coming, albeit at a critical moment in a playoff game.

Andy just needs to work with him on fixing this. They're clearly not gonna stop so you might as well take the bullets out of their chamber

"If you're going to get raped, might as well sit back and enjoy it..."

****. That.

If the league is going to overlook it for literally every single other player in football, no - I'm 100% not okay with "we need to fix it..." and be held to a different standard than every other football team in the league.

I know he isn't a tackle and not sure where else to post this. But holy ****ing shit lol

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