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Originally Posted by staylor26
You didn't address anything DJ actually said.
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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.
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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
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.
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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.