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Originally Posted by ThaVirus
Come on, dude. That is a huge hold on Smith lol
I’m not saying they didn’t **** us with calls too. Just saying there’s no point in bitching about bad calls when both teams were shafted.
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It's not a 'huge' hold - Smith did the thing that officials typically let go. He kept his arms inside the rushers pads.
Had the rusher not given up on the play and actually driven through Smith's left shoulder, it would've forced Smith to extend, but he let Smith just manhandle him in between his shoulders and when an OL does that, the hold usually isn't called.
Hands inside the pads. Everyone knows that OL clutch and grab down there all the time but so long as they don't get their arms extended in doing so, it's not going to get flagged.
This gets back to where you were last week on the illegal procedure stuff. There is the rulebook, and then there's the way the penalties are actually called. And if the penalties are called by the letter of the rulebook, this game would be BRUTAL to watch because there'd be a penalty on literally every single play.