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Originally Posted by DenverChief
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Yeah, I just don't know how you really avoid that collision, besides giving up on the play... the guy took a step or two and it was just as much JJSS "running into him" than it was destroying a defenseless receiver.
Avoiding a hit like that, IMO, is basically telling the defender to stop playing football and don't even react to the pass.
Unlike the one a couple plays later where dude launched himself at the receiver.
It's letter of the law vs spirit of the law, IMO.... letter of the law says the JJSS hit was a penalty and the other one wasn't, yet I have no idea what I'd tell the defender on the first one. Uh, don't get in the way? On the second one, it's
hey numbnuts, you're going to kill someone.