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01-06-2013, 10:06 PM #14
Re: Mike Carey (w Hochuili Bonus) to Ref Our Game
The hell here is that you are incorrect on this one, with all due respect my friend. That is what the hell.
If there is a full collision, it is a forcible hit to the head. With the violence of that collision any part of his upper body hitting Wayne is going to be forcible.
You are arguing intention.
Intention doesn't matter.
When he launched into Wayne, his helmet hit Wayne's.
He also did not "launch" into Wayne. If he had launched into him, he would have put his head down or left the ground. THAT would have been a justifiable call.
He will in all likelyhood be fined and even Pollard knows it and said so to a reporter.
Why do you constantly hear defensive players complaining about offensive guys lowering their heads when getting fined?
It's because the league made that rule so that none of that other "intent" or "mistake" stuff is taken into account and they completely remove the "judgemental" stuff out of the officials hands.
No defenseless receiver personal foul is a judgement call. Either the ref sees contact to the head or he doesn't. The only way the ref would have been wrong in this case is if no part of Pollard's body hit Wayne in the head.
RIW, I understand the flags for when a player cracks another player with his helmet. Those are plays that result in concussions, and I get that. THIS PLAY was not that play. And the refs made a call based on how they FELT about the hit, and it was the wrong call.
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