SweetT
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Exactly. QBs are trying to skirt the rules as much as possible.My issue with flags is this. If it’s 3rd and 1 and the Qb runs around the end, all instincts say, blow him up regardless of anything. So a penalty should never be called when it’s an instinct play. Similar to a Wr catching the ball over the middle. The safety needs to blow him up at all costs to keep him from catching it. It’s an instinct play. Now what isn’t an instinct play that a penalty should be called? Qb hits to the head or grabbing the facemask or cutting him too low with intent to injure. Including tacking by falling with your full weight on the Qb trying to drive him into the ground with intent to injure. Hip drop and Horsecollar should only be a penalty if the defenders intent was to injure. In other words, if he could’ve tackled him normally, but chose to horsecolar, or hip drop then that’s intent to injure. Was a penalty deserved on the defender that knocked out Olave? Yes, because he could’ve hit him in the mid section, instead he CHOSE to go for the kill shot. Was a penalty deserved for the Jax Qb? The Qb was trying to get a first, so he ran as far as he could go to get the first secured then he slid. So it was a bang bang play. Should there be a penalty for a Qb sliding and giving himself up? Yes. If the defender has time to react. QBs are taking advantage of being able to get as many yards as possible then slide. The lessons learned, expect to be drilled going over the middle as a WR. And hope that the defender doesn’t go for the kill shot with intent to injure. If you’re a Qb, you better slide early to give the defender a chance to react, or you’re risking a bang bang play, and your career.
