UK_Pat37

When they refer to running onwards your own end line, thy refer to the one you're defending...therefore that wasn't the issue.

I struggle to see what was wrong with the hit. Initial contact was on the chest plate and Lee should have kept his head on a swivel. Got his head in front. The only dangerous part of that play was him leading with he head...which was more dangerous to himself.

Reading the rules, it looks like they got him on a technicality that he was running to the side which they now constitute as a blind side hit. It ws close...Tate almost got in front and was taking a stride up field...marginal call.

I think that kind of football is fine. IMO I think this was less than a penalty than the Mayo hit.

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Sciz

If there wasn't that rule, then there'd be no rule against any blocker going head to head on any defender at any time. This just makes it so you can't go helmet to helmet on a defender unless you're running straight at him.

I think it's more applicable on STs (it's the rule that makes this illegal), it's going to happen on broken plays like that on defense, too.

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Tate didn't go helmet to helmet. His arms were folded and he went simultaneously with arms to the midsection and the front of his facemask (not the crown of the helmet at all) to the top of the numbers. He then extended his arms to push the defender over.

The defender looked to be shaken up not by the blow from Tate, but from falling on his backside and the back of his helmet bouncing off the turf.

The only reason it was penalized IMO was because it looked bad, and it looked bad because the guy somehow had no clue he was going to get blocked.

If this has been a penalty for 50 years, them every block Hines Ward ever made would have been a penalty.

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Sciz

This rule was added in 2009.

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