Snake wrote: ↑Wed Dec 22, 2021 12:12 pm
But he was hit in the thigh, not the knee.
This is what I think when you hit a knee directly
Here is a bit more specific diagram with Godwin.
Part of the contact was to the thigh, part of the contact was on the knee, and part of it was below the knee. The contact was shoulder pad and arm. For me. I do not like either hit. Both were to the knee area in my opinion.
Snake wrote: ↑Wed Dec 22, 2021 12:22 pm
There are a few angles of contact and areas of the field that are problematic for impacts if players aren’t absolutely ready. Which, how are you as a defender supposed to surmise when a player will be defenseless in a game moving this fast?
when I was watching that UCF game where the quarterback got his knee absolutely annihilated, I yelled before the hit actually happened. My wife asked me why I yelled. It was because it just looked wrong the way the bodies were flying in at knee height. Lo and behold he got fucking wrecked. This happens. It doesn’t happen all the time but I don’t know how you stop it. Not diving at a offensive lineman‘s legs isn’t hard. Same thing for quarterbacks in the pocket. Receivers running at full speed horizontally across the field is a different thing.
Thankfully, I don't think the Godwin hit forces a rule change.
The roughing the passer penalties are already awful.
The NFL players are sure discussing this too. They have a sense of what's right and wrong just like fans do. It's their vote that's going to count. My guess is they already know that DB stepped over the line. Even the DB knows it, his facial expressions are on tape.
mdb1958 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 22, 2021 1:51 pm
The top 9 pass catchers in this league could be taken out this same way before the season ends. Different degrees of how unfortunate of course.
And no one here gave a damn until it happened to one of ours.
mdb1958 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 22, 2021 1:51 pm
The top 9 pass catchers in this league could be taken out this same way before the season ends. Different degrees of how unfortunate of course.
And no one here gave a damn until it happened to one of ours.
I can't speak for others in here but my 2nd sentence covers it for me. Not vocalizing something does not mean you didnt care. I have mental thoughts enter my mind watching football, for injury - not good, bad, real bad, that wasnt needed. Stuff like that.
Yeah, I've always thought low hits over the middle as someone should be considered the same way as high hits in regards to a player being defenseless or not.
mdb1958 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 22, 2021 1:51 pm
The top 9 pass catchers in this league could be taken out this same way before the season ends. Different degrees of how unfortunate of course.
And no one here gave a damn until it happened to one of ours.
So says you. The biggest dipshit in the room.
If I saw a game in which another receiver was injured in that way I would have the same opinion. I just happen to watch the Buccaneers and on occasion other teams when the game affects the Buccaneers seeding or division standing. You keep making ASSumptions about what posters on this board are thinking. You can't, period.
