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Originally Posted by Bearcat
Yeah, that 2nd hit definitely shed some light on the possible intent of the first one.
And I try to watch these plays in real time and not disect frame by frame, thinking shit happens so quickly and there are split second decisions, etc..... and then Toney is out there adjusting his gloves mid-route before high-pointing a pass along the sidelines, so WTF do I know about how these guys can slow down the game.
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Yeah, the irony of it being that I think the intent behind the 2nd hit was actually worse than the intent behind the first.
The 2nd hit was clearly him trying to blow MVS apart and giving no ****s as to how he went about doing it. It just so happened that MVS was high enough that Cisco's point of impact was below his shoulder and thus he didn't get into his head.
But both of them were plays where he was launching himself up at contact. And the NFL's entire purpose in taking 'malice' out of the equation when discussing these penalties was to get guys to stop doing that shit. The league made it clear that they don't CARE if you intend to injure the guy - just don't do the things that make that injury more likely, chief among them is launching yourself up towards the head/shoulder area.
There's a reason the rule was written like it was. The league doesn't want that kind of tackle in the game.
And yet Cisco got away with two of them.
They'll be watching him closely.