I thought leading with your helmet was illegal

[ShrewBeer]

Re: I thought leading with your helmet was illegal.

I believe helmet to helmet is only called on quaterbacks someone said that earlier in the thread and i believe that is correct.

you are pretty much correct. but the play was not helmet to helmet. it was ramming with the helmet, which is illegal.

 

[Chuck.U.Farley]

Re: I thought leading with your helmet was illegal.

I still wouldn't have wanted to be the one on the recieving end of that most people would have reggie bush crawled away after that.

 

[workhorse]

Re: I thought leading with your helmet was illegal.

Actually, you can't go helmut to helmut on a receiver going for a ball or a QB, but I believe it is not an issue on a kick returner in the middle of a return. At least that's wht I heard them talking about on Sirius NFL

I heard the same thing and noticed it in the past. I think its because ball carriers moving targets and generally aware of incoming hits while stationary QBs and extended WRs are more vulnerable and it's easier for a defender to try to miss the head.

It was helmet-to-pads, then he slid up (I think) into the face cage. He still led with his helmet, and pointed at it as he ran off the field.

I'm not going to plug it into the little "Good Team/Bad Team" machine. That hit was cool to watch, but was blatantly illegal, kickoff or no kickoff. You can't grab a guy's nuts and pull him to the ground because it's a kickoff. Show me the rule that says on kickoffs you can spear a guy.

What BS.

Now, that being said, I think Wilfork being fined is absolutely legit, even if as part of the exercise he was saying "Oh a wise guy, eh? Nyuck nyuck nyuck."

PFnV

I don't think he was pointing at his head, I think he was trying to point at his name on the back of his jersey.

 

[PatsFanInVa]

Re: I thought leading with your helmet was illegal.

I heard the same thing and noticed it in the past. I think its because ball carriers moving targets and generally aware of incoming hits while stationary QBs and extended WRs are more vulnerable and it's easier for a defender to try to miss the head.



I don't think he was pointing at his head, I think he was trying to point at his name on the back of his jersey.

How very unfortunate, then, that his helmet was positioned between his forefinger and the name on the back of his jersey. :rocker: