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Originally Posted by kitten_mittons
well at first I was fine with it and thought orton was an idiot for attempting the tackle (which I still think was stupid). But when I saw the replay, you see Orton go to the ground to take out Harrison's feet, then Harrison dives to the ground and basically goes out of the way to hit orton with his shoulder. If orton makes the tackle the way he did he should've only got hit by harrison's legs below the knees. He was on the ground and got hit with harrison's shoulder.
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure Harrison embellished on what was really required there. Like you said, not illegal, but likely dirty.
That said, Orton needs to learn that diving with your back to the oncoming ball carrier is not an effective means of making a tackle.