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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dantés" data-source="post: 889212" data-attributes="member: 12283">I actually can't believe that Packer fans would defend that horrible rule. We had first row seats to it changing games a couple years ago. Clay Matthews was getting flagged all over the place for perfectly normal tackles simply because he ended up on top of the QB at the end of the play, which is obviously a pretty common, reasonable outcome of when tackling another person.That trashbag rule literally cost the Packers a win, unequivocally, against the Vikings. I guess the league's opinion was that Clay was supposed to press the pause button on reality halfway through the tackle, remove himself from the equation, and let Cousins fall the rest of the way by himself. Totally reasonable.The NFL knows it's horrible too. They haven't been nearly as aggressive calling it since that first year when Clay kept getting screwed. Because they knew it was ********. But they had already put it in place. So as the league often does when they create stupid rules, they told the refs to call it less via back channels.</blockquote>

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