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"Illegal crackback block on a defenseless player, with targeting."
TTJ
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The most controversial of the rules changes is that when a player is flagged for targeting and initiating with the crown of the helmet or targeting a defenseless player, the offender will be ejected.Link.
“The rules in of themselves are unchanged, however the penalties have changed,” he said. “If a player is flagged for either one of those fouls, it requires an automatic ejection. If the player is flagged during the first half, then he must sit out the remainder of the game. If the foul occurs during the second half, he must sit out the first half of the next game. Those fouls are automatically reviewed by replay officials. If the call is overturned, the player can be reinstated, but the 15-yard penalty still stands.”
The crown of the helmet is specifically defined as the very top of the helmet. It is legal to hit with any other part of the helmet including the facemask.
Targeting a defenseless player is a little more cut and dried because there are nine types of players that can’t be hit above the shoulders at any point during the game.
Those nine players are: a player in the act of passing; a receiver attempting to catch a pass prior to controlling the ball and making a football move; a kicker in the act of kicking during a kick or return; a returner attempting to catch or return a kick prior to controlling the ball and making a football move; a player obviously out of bounds; a player who receives a blindside block, a ball carrier in the grasp of another player; and, a quarterback anytime after a change of possession.
When determining whether or not a player was targeting another player, Rhoads said there are several keys that he instructs his officials to look for.
“Here is what we look for,” he said. “Did the player leave his feet in an upward thrust? Did he crouch preceding the upward thrust? Did he lead with the helmet, forearm, fist, hand or elbow? Did he lower his head before attacking in order to initiate with the crown?”
An illegal crack-back block is a block below the waist. Players outside the tackle box (more than seven yards out) or a player in motion cannot block another player below the waist until after the ball is snapped and significant time has run off the clock. After time has run off the clock, any player may be blocked below the waist as long as the blocking player is in front of the player being blocked or is within a 10 o’clock to 2 o’clock zone.
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Here's the NFL definition of a blindside block that is used by NCAA officials because the NCAA was too stupid to copy/paste this shit into their rules:
A player who receives a “blindside” block when the blocker is moving toward his own endline and
approaches the opponent from behind or from the side.
Chest was wrong. The fans don't know shit about the rules and we need Mike Pereira to explain this shit to you guys:
http://www.foxsports.com/nfl/video/pereira-explaining-blind-side-blocks-100514?vid=338078787834
Having said that, Perkins shouldn't have been disqualified because he was moving toward the Cal end line when he made the block, he blocked the guy from the front rather than the side, and I'm not sure he even made initial contact above the shoulders.
It was a ridiculous ejection that should have been overturned but every college replay booth in America sucks this year.
"Imithetho in of ngokwazo kukhona zishintshe, kepha izinhlawulo zishintshile," esho. "Uma umdlali ihlatshwe umkhosi for noma omunye walabo fouls, kudinga i ejection othomathikhi. Uma umdlali ihlatshwe umkhosi phakathi nengxenye yokuqala, khona-ke kumelwe ahlale out esele game. Uma lo olungcolile kwenzeka ngesikhathi isigamu sesibili, kumelwe ahlale out nengxenye yokuqala emdlalweni olandelayo. Lezo fouls ngokuzenzakalela kubuyekezwe by replay izikhulu. Uma ucingo igingqika, umdlali abuyiselwe, kodwana isigwebo 15-egcekeni useyiqiniso. "
Umqhele the isigqoko ngokuqondile kuchazwa njengoba uqobo phezulu isigqoko sokuzivikela. Kuyinto lwezomthetho hit nanoma yimuphi omunye ingxenye isigqoko kubandakanya facemask.
Ukubhekisa umdlali ukuzivikela ukuncishiselwa elengeziwe futhi omisiwe ngoba ziningi ayisishiyagalolunye izinhlobo abadlali ukuthi angeke hit ngenhla emahlombe nganoma yingasiphi ngesikhathi game.
Abadlali Labo ayisishiyagalolunye yilezi: a player in the isenzo ngokudlula; odlala ezama ukubamba pass ngaphambi ukulawula ibhola ukuthutha football; a kicker oqotsheni ukukhahlela ngesikhathi ukukhahlela nobe ukubuya; a returner ezama ukubamba noma ubuya ukukhahlela ngaphambi ukulawula ibhola ukuthutha football; umdlali kusobala out of kwemingcele; umdlali iphiwa block blindside, a othwala ibhola ekubanjweni yomunye umdlali; futhi, a quarterback nanini ngemva kokushintsha yimpahla.
Lapho sinquma ukuthi noma cha umdlali kwase ezibhekiswe esinye umdlali, Rhoads uthe kukhona keys eziningana ukuthi ufundisa izikhulu zakhe ukuba ufune.
"Nakhu sibheke," esho. "Ingabe umdlali ashiye izinyawo zakhe ku an iphuzu phezulu? Akazange yena qojama esandulele iphuzu phezulu? Akazange yena kuholele kanye yisigqoko, bengalo, ngenqindi, ngesandla nobe ingcoza? Wakwenza wehlisa ikhanda ngaphambi behlasela ukuze ukuqalisa kanye umqhele? "
An emthethweni crack-back block kuyinto block ngezansi okhalweni. Players ngaphandle ukubhekana ibhokisi (ngamamitha angaphezu kuka abayisikhombisa out) noma umdlali in motion abakwazi ukuvimba elinye umdlali ngezansi okhalweni kuze emva ibhola is ubuthaphuthaphu nesikhathi okuphawulekayo isiphelile off iwashi. Emva kwesikhathi isiphelile off iwashi, yimuphi umdlali kungenzeka ivinjwe ngezansi okhalweni nje umdlali Ukuvinjwa ephambi kusidlali ivinjwe noma ngaphakathi zone 10 ngehora 2 ezimpondweni.
That was a great football play.
If this is a legit call then the officials are derelict in not calling Unnecessary Roughness on every single goddamn play August to January.
My point, in this post and others, is that it was an utterly indefensible call. Nothing about Perkins's play satisfies the definitions of any of the terminology used by the ref who made the call on the field.
If the ref said crackback, fire his ass on the 50 yard line.
We all know it's a bad call.
But I was talking about the one in the lower left corner of frame.
Abundance.
Abundance?
If this is a true interpretation of the rule, doesn't every inside counter run now by this definition, contain a blindside block?