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Originally Posted by jd1020
How does the rule defy logic?
It's a pretty simple rule. Dont land with your full body weight on the QB. Where's the disconnect in logic?
The issue is that its not reviewable, and even if it were reviewable there would probably be just as many overturned roughing calls as there were overturned PI calls. It's simply a dumb ****ing rule, but it's a pretty simple one.
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You never played, right?
How do you tackle (def.: the action of a defensive player stopping the progress of an offensive ball carrier
by bringing him to the ground) a world class athlete (NFL players are among the top 3% of athletes in the world) without landing your body on him occasionally? They aren't going to just let guys tackle them; they're going to resist in most cases. So what then if you're a pass rusher? Just let him go to avoid the impending flag for roughing?
There's two disconnects here.
One, it's very difficult to tackle any player without landing on top of them because of the physics required to make a tackle. Made even more difficult because of all the extra rules surrounding the protection of QBs. So some players have decided to "twist/Sling" the QB, to avoid that part of the rule, which is also now a penalty because Brady things.
Two, the rule is incredibly arbitrary. The ref gets to decide whether a tackler did in fact land with "his full body weight," and his decision is final.
It's a bullshit rule, and the reality is that it's too arbitrary. It should be removed so that refs just don't have to make that type of decision. It should just be 'can't hit them above the shoulders, can't hit them below the knees,' and that's it. Everything else is fair game. Otherwise, I agree with Aikman; put skirts on the QBs and put flags around their waists and you just can't tackle QBs anymore.