shmessy

It is, if you use your leg.

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ALP

umm, vrabel fell down and grabbed rivers leg with his hand, and tripped him...

which made rivers not throw such a good ball, which ended up in asante's hands...

vrabel defenetely affected the play, but it was legal as well...u can try and sack the QB any way u want...even tripping....and it was with the hands form wut i recall...

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Wildo7

it'd be helpful if someone (weswelker#83) could get some screen caps of this.

abejarano12

Vrabel did trip Rivers and he got away with one, but lets not forget that O Linemen try to hold the D Line when ever they can. So let's not make a big deal out of it. I'm sure the Merriman would have tried to do the samething to Brady

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cstjohn17

You may want to look at your DVR, Vrabel blew by the tackle with a spin move and lost his balance. He fell down and after he hit the ground stuck out his leg and it did imapct the throw. Totally illegal play, I agree with 'Obi-Wan' that the Pats got away with one. We have a lot of BS calls go against us in the past, I am not going to lose and sleep.

shmessy

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Dojo Chargerfan

Someone please post either the vid or the pics. My Tivo deleted the recording. I know a lot of people on the charger forum was wondering why no one was talking about it so I want to know what all the fuss was about. Plus, the Pats have had some bad calls against them in the past but it goes to another level as a Charger fan. Did anyone see the Indy game? god, the refs wanted Indy to win that game so bad! We kept fighting and were the better team. Overall, I seen some missed calls but I thought it was a fairly called game. i just wanna see this leg whip some are talking about.

QuiGon

Sorry but that's just not true. You can't trip someone with your legs (whether or not they have the ball). I reviewed the play in question and will admit I was wrong and Vrabel did affect the throw, but he certainly did so with his legs. He looked like he was trying a soccer style slide tackle.

The video is here at the 3:08 mark (you'll have to sit through a commercial first).

http://www.nfl.com/videos?videoId=09000d5d8061ff88

alamo

One possible reason it wasn't called is because the motion of the blocker as he spun pushed him towards Rivers. So he was partially blocked into Rivers. But he definitely extended his leg into Rivers as he went by.

Johnny Mac

He was shoved down by the lineman. Where else were his legs supposed to go?

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