***PLAYOFF GameDay Thread- Steelers @ Bengals***

[jfkbengals]

(01-09-2016, 11:50 PM)MTBengalsFan Wrote: BS! He lowered his shoulder and hit him with his pads. There was no spearing with the helmet!!!

You are correct.  And they didn't call him for spearing.  They called him for hit to the head of a defenseless receiver (which he was not).  Any contact to the helmet with the helmet or shoulder pads qualifies.  The shoulder pads nailed his face mask.

Again.  The contact isn't the problem.  It's that he was already established as a runner, thus legal.