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(03-23-2021, 09:45 AM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote:



You only need to watch the first 5 seconds.

Jordan was immediately driven backwards, wrapped his arms around the defender in a bear hug, and tackled him into Burrow. That's pretty much the definition of getting beaten if you get driven straight back and are forced to hold a guy and can only throw him at your QB. If Burrow was a foot to the right, and thus not on the ground writhing in agony, it would have been the easiest flag for holding ever thrown.

When I said, "get beaten," I meant that he didn't get pushed out of the play or had his guy get by him, ala a DE around an OT.

He was bullrushed, sure, but he still had the presence of mind to grab his guy and throw him down; if he was, "beaten," he wouldn't have been able to even touch him or do anything (hence Bobby Hart).

I'm not saying MJ's not at fault, but the result of it was a freak play, nothing more.