01-16-2016, 05:53 AM
(01-15-2016, 05:50 PM)jowczarski Wrote: Story, with photos and NFL rules.
Quote:"You’re really dealing with the players moving in the same direction towards each other when this rule would apply. The theory being, when players are moving at angles, they don’t have as much opportunity to avoid that contact. That’s where the rule does not apply.
"You watch it here, we’re moving at angle, not a foul."
As others have said this doesn't wash with the written rule or what we see on video, Shazier lined him up from five yards away with very little angle.
Compare this to Burficts hit in the Jets game in '13. Burfict was coming at a much more extreme angle than Shazier was and they still called him for crown of the helmet contact and fined him.
