Tough one

[Dill]

(12-03-2018, 08:38 PM)BFritz21 Wrote: Running the kicker and roughing the kicker are both penalties because running into the kicker with his leg in the air has potential to severely injure the kicker by breaking a leg or worse?  Which isn't as bad if it's just a natural play, but going offsides in an attempt to gain an advantage and potentially causing a career-ending injury is dirty.

Trying to hit the other guy first is an attempt to gain an advantage. Getting that advantage is what makes players good.

Is it possible that a desperate player could wrongly anticipate a snap count--just an error? Or mistakenly (or actually) react to an opposing player's movement?  Or is an offsides always a "dirty" play, like deliberately stamping on someone's leg a la Suh.

Doesn't seem to me that trying to block a kick=trying to run into a kicker. 

So something isn't clear here; are you saying Steeler players were jumping offsides to cause a career-ending injury? Those offsides were dirty play efforts they got away with--after losing 5 yards a pop and giving the kicker two more tries and losing the game?