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<blockquote data-quote="bke1984" data-source="post: 342376" data-attributes="member: 932"><p>The Gotsis play makes me angry every time I watch it because that kind of tackle is not what the rule is designed to prevent. The targeting penalties exist because for several years there players were launching their bodies like a missile at defenseless players. You can't go throwing people out of games for making form tackles where helmets happen to touch...it's just silly. There's absolutely no way to prevent that sort of thing from happening in football. The game is too fast and helmets are going to collide. A hit looking violent where heads happen to collide should not be grounds for a targeting penalty and an ejection. It should be based on intent at the discretion of the official. I know that leaves the door open, but it is what it is at that point. If a defender wraps up with both arms around a player to make a tackle and their heads happen to hit then so be it...it's football...it happens...and yes, it can cause concussions...but no more so than the players head slamming into the ground when he's tackled around the waste and planted on his back.</p><p></p><p>BTW...side note here. Anyone ever seen a targeting penalty called when O-linemen and D-linemen collide at the snap? Or when linebackers are blocked by O-linemen? Or when players are blindsided on interception blocks? I don't recall ever seeing any of these...which is probably where most concussions occur on the football field....away from the ball</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bke1984, post: 342376, member: 932"] The Gotsis play makes me angry every time I watch it because that kind of tackle is not what the rule is designed to prevent. The targeting penalties exist because for several years there players were launching their bodies like a missile at defenseless players. You can't go throwing people out of games for making form tackles where helmets happen to touch...it's just silly. There's absolutely no way to prevent that sort of thing from happening in football. The game is too fast and helmets are going to collide. A hit looking violent where heads happen to collide should not be grounds for a targeting penalty and an ejection. It should be based on intent at the discretion of the official. I know that leaves the door open, but it is what it is at that point. If a defender wraps up with both arms around a player to make a tackle and their heads happen to hit then so be it...it's football...it happens...and yes, it can cause concussions...but no more so than the players head slamming into the ground when he's tackled around the waste and planted on his back. BTW...side note here. Anyone ever seen a targeting penalty called when O-linemen and D-linemen collide at the snap? Or when linebackers are blocked by O-linemen? Or when players are blindsided on interception blocks? I don't recall ever seeing any of these...which is probably where most concussions occur on the football field....away from the ball [/QUOTE]
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