To the people that watched on tv
- Thread starter Motodawg
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Can’t lead with crown of the helmet. I was pissed… not so much because it was the wrong call, but because that doesn’t get called 9 out of 10 times. They normally don’t call it unless it’s a hit to the helmet. I’ve seen hits like the one today called targeting in real time and then overturned. It’s honestly up to each ref
I have no idea what Preston was supposed to do. Daniels jumped into him to initiate contact.
He has to keep his head up. The point of that part of the rule is to protect the defender.
Yes. He put the top of his head into his chest. If he looks up and puts his facemask in his chest it would not have been. Even though it was, I wouldn't have called it. There are dozens of tackles like that every game by both teams. Why call that one?
Yeah, that’s when I turned the **** show off for good. The little bastard was fixing to go all the way, if he hadn’t stopped him.
I'll be ok with those calls if they would also call it on ballcarriers who lower their heads. They never do.
I see the so called targeting plays a lot actually. Just depends on when the ref wants to throw a flag I guess. And yes I stopped watching when I realized the OC wasn't serious about trying to be competitive.
He would have been bowled if he had not “targeted”. That’s their quarterback. I honestly think it caught him off guard that the quarterback was lunging up (like preparing to hurdle him) instead of sliding. If we are going to have that as targeting, I think these mobile quarterbacks/quarterbacks in general should have to declare at the beginning of the game if they are a running back that throws or a quarterback. If you are a quarterback, then you get the protection of the slide. The defender is second guessing on what to do there most of the time. Our guy committed, and was ejected for it. I can suffer through crappy play. I got up and went to the shop after that call. That’s crap.
I hate what this has become. Was it targeting? Yes. Should that be called? No, unless our goal is going to turn this into flag football. I love football. It’s all I played in high school. But what all this is becoming between Nil, some of these rules, transfer portal, etc, we should put our whole budget into basketball and baseball. The whole deck is being stacked against us even more than it always has.
This… was a reaction move, he keeps his head up, his own neck is at risk.
They do make a good point, of course it didn't impact this game
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Mississippi State Got Screwed With One Of The Most Insane Targeting Calls You'll Ever See
I mean, what the **** are we even doing anymore? Jayden Daniels left his feet, jumped right into the defender and was rewarded with 15 yards and having a Mississippi State player thrown out of the gam...
Once Daniels jumped that wasn't targeting. It was a bad call. Had to be helmet to helmet to be targeting in that situation. Wasn't a defenseless player. It was discussed in an online show and that's what they were saying.
According to the rule, if you lead with the crown of the helmet it is targeting, no matter if it's helmet to helmet or helmet to whatever. That was absolutely targeting. That part of the rule is to protect the tackler. What he did is how you wind up like Chucky Mullens.
Lead with the crown of his helmet to the lower extremity. Not head to head; no targeting. Since no one can decipher the rule, why have it?
I agree. I think he would have done the same with another opportunity. Good football play.
It looked like about 1/3 the east side was LSU fans. Was that a good assessment?
Why? Because the crew running the Jumbotron couldn’t figure how to show replays again yesterday ? I’m curious about that - did they struggle again this week? Last week was pathetic.
No. The replays worked. They showed what looked to me like a nice form shoulder tackle.
The foul for targeting is 100% to protect the one lowering their head. 0% to protect the one getting hit.
LeBron made a tweet that really showed his ignorance of this rule.
Letter of the law - you can make that call. Should you? No. Not unless someone wants to explain to me how he could have made that tackle differently at game speed. He made his best play. It was a good tackle. Football is dangerous and he didn't do anything that made it incrementally so. That should never be penalized.