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re: The targeting ejection on Skalski
Posted on 2/25/20 at 2:03 am to GoDeepCoach
Posted on 2/25/20 at 2:03 am to GoDeepCoach
quote:My god, shut up. I guess we should go back to leather or no headgear? Hell, maybe we should go really old-school and sacrifice the losing team to the gods.
I agree. Don’t matter if it goes for us or against us. They are destroying the game. I guess liberalism has taken over football. Can’t hit the QB high. Can’t hit the QB low. It’s like a strike zone in baseball now. Below letters, above knees. Not reasonable to require defenders with 100% adrenaline to be able to do that.
Rule changes have had an enormous positive impact on player safety. Dozens of players at all levels (unfortunately, mostly middle and high schoolers) used to DIE every year from head and neck injuries playing football. Deaths and serious injuries have threatened the future of the sport for over a century. Football was almost banned altogether in several states in the early 1900s due to deaths. Rule changes saved it.
Injuries will always be a part of sports, but frick don't you think we should do our best to prevent catastrophic ones.
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Posted on 2/25/20 at 4:34 am to ForeverEllisHugh
Thats one of the only targeting calle over the last 2 seasons that i actually got no problem with. The defender duck his head and led with the crown of his helmet intentionally. Thats automatic ejection. Most targeting calls i see called are questionabe, not that one
Posted on 2/26/20 at 11:42 am to ForeverEllisHugh
the dude planted his feet and then launched himself so that he became horizontal like a missle with his head down leading to the hit. tf you mean you have a problem with the ejection? You talking about png glasses when you should be taking your head out of your arse.
Posted on 2/26/20 at 11:48 am to ForeverEllisHugh
The kid is lucky he hasn’t paralyzed himself tackling the way he does, head down and leading with the crown of the helmet.
Ejecting him was for his own safety as much as it was for anyone else’s.
Ejecting him was for his own safety as much as it was for anyone else’s.
Posted on 2/26/20 at 11:49 am to Oneforthemoney
By rule it was targeting. However, he barely grazed the helmet and hit the shoulder pads. Tough call there, but by rule the right one.
Posted on 2/26/20 at 12:34 pm to tiger81
The guy ducked his head and launched all year long. He did it at the end of the first half when Joe hit Moss for the TD. His crown hit Joe in the ribs, so no penalty. You can bet they were watching him close all game long. Not a fan of the rule, but you deserve to be ejected if you are dumb enough to duck and launch multiple times in a game. Players are told everyday that you can’t do it any longer, but some still take the risk. He got caught and paid the price.
Posted on 2/26/20 at 12:47 pm to TigerLunatik
Hit what you see and see what you hit. No excuse for that hit, textbook targeting and refs had no choice but enforce rule.
Posted on 2/26/20 at 1:11 pm to TIGERhype
Ejection sucks. We've certainly suffered from similar, albeit more marginal calls. But heavy penalty is intended to be a deterrent.
Posted on 2/26/20 at 2:04 pm to ForeverEllisHugh
It's it ok to agree and disagree?
I love the hit, that hit is what I grew up seeing, making and craving.. the game is changing and maybe not for the better but at least to attempt to make the game safer... Which sucks bc it's a combat sport. But that's now against the rules and honestly should be. Im always going to miss guys laying waste in center field, the crackback/blind side block or hit on a WR/TE or CB/LB/SS, those bull in the ring drills and other drills always taught you to keep your head on a swivel and that was always apart of the game a risk reward part of game... It's no longer apart of the game..
I love the hit, that hit is what I grew up seeing, making and craving.. the game is changing and maybe not for the better but at least to attempt to make the game safer... Which sucks bc it's a combat sport. But that's now against the rules and honestly should be. Im always going to miss guys laying waste in center field, the crackback/blind side block or hit on a WR/TE or CB/LB/SS, those bull in the ring drills and other drills always taught you to keep your head on a swivel and that was always apart of the game a risk reward part of game... It's no longer apart of the game..
Posted on 2/26/20 at 2:06 pm to BeachDude022
stupid rule. needs to be addressed. protect the player but don't ruin the game
Posted on 2/26/20 at 2:07 pm to The Ramp
I knew LSU had won when he was ejected. Fully relaxed from then on.
Posted on 2/26/20 at 2:47 pm to ForeverEllisHugh
His hit was casebook targeting. If ejection is the penalty for targeting then the ejection was warranted.
I would agree that every year players get ejected for hard hits that were not the result of targeting but Skalski was not one of those. Referees often get this call wrong and when they do it can dictate the outcome of a game.
Conferences need to do a better job of getting their game officials in line with the intent of the rule. That's not likely to happen so we will all grimace, as we do now when replay shows they got it wrong.
I would agree that every year players get ejected for hard hits that were not the result of targeting but Skalski was not one of those. Referees often get this call wrong and when they do it can dictate the outcome of a game.
Conferences need to do a better job of getting their game officials in line with the intent of the rule. That's not likely to happen so we will all grimace, as we do now when replay shows they got it wrong.
Posted on 2/26/20 at 2:58 pm to NorthshoreTiger76
quote:
It’s the rule if you don’t like it change the rule
This. By the rule he was guilty and the penalty is ejection.
Posted on 2/26/20 at 3:31 pm to pensacola
Give me a break. He was not a game changer.
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