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<blockquote data-quote="forensicbuzz" data-source="post: 279539" data-attributes="member: 198"><p>That's called hard-nosed football. If the receiver is held immobile, he can always go down. The object of the game is to hit the other guys as hard as you can so they want to avoid that contact the next time around. That's why players get clobbered going high over the middle. As a DB, you want that receiver to have aligator arms and to be thinking about the lick coming to them when crossing the middle of the field. This game is as much about intimidation as it is skill. All this being said, intent to injure is different than intent to inflict pain. I have zero time for guys that are trying to injure other players, that includes launching themselves. Watch Reuben Foster in Monday's game. He absolutely layed the wood, but wrapped up and drove through the offensive guy. Good fundamental football. (full disclosure, I missed most of the first half, so if there were dirty tackles by RF in the first half, I missed them)</p><p></p><p>Also, if the offensive guy goes low, there should never be a helmet-to-helmet call made. Fundamentally, players are taught to tackle between the knees and the bottom of the shoulder pads, depending on the situation. I was taught to bury my facemask in the lower chest of the runner, wrap my arms and explode foward and upward, lifting the runner off the ground and driving them backward and to the ground. That's exactly what Gotsis did against UNC. His problem was the height differential caused him to make contact in the middle of the shoulder pads, not the bottom. That was a bad call.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="forensicbuzz, post: 279539, member: 198"] That's called hard-nosed football. If the receiver is held immobile, he can always go down. The object of the game is to hit the other guys as hard as you can so they want to avoid that contact the next time around. That's why players get clobbered going high over the middle. As a DB, you want that receiver to have aligator arms and to be thinking about the lick coming to them when crossing the middle of the field. This game is as much about intimidation as it is skill. All this being said, intent to injure is different than intent to inflict pain. I have zero time for guys that are trying to injure other players, that includes launching themselves. Watch Reuben Foster in Monday's game. He absolutely layed the wood, but wrapped up and drove through the offensive guy. Good fundamental football. (full disclosure, I missed most of the first half, so if there were dirty tackles by RF in the first half, I missed them) Also, if the offensive guy goes low, there should never be a helmet-to-helmet call made. Fundamentally, players are taught to tackle between the knees and the bottom of the shoulder pads, depending on the situation. I was taught to bury my facemask in the lower chest of the runner, wrap my arms and explode foward and upward, lifting the runner off the ground and driving them backward and to the ground. That's exactly what Gotsis did against UNC. His problem was the height differential caused him to make contact in the middle of the shoulder pads, not the bottom. That was a bad call. [/QUOTE]
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