Random rule change thought

[DenverChief]

Originally Posted by Bearcat

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.

Then I guess the Jones sack was a good call then....