The Hit on Malone

[*michaelsean*]

(11-27-2017, 10:20 AM)Wyche Wrote: This.  He led with his shoulder, and the helmet contact was incidental with the way Malone was coming down.  It was just as much bullshit as the call on Burfict.

As to the OP, I agree that the announcers would have been frothing at the mouth if it was 55 (although I felt Lofton was also critical of the call on Burfict as well, and was a pretty objective commentator), but the hit was not worthy of what was called.

In this instance, incidental means a brush, not accidentally, and it doesn't matter where you hit first or what you led with.