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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dantés" data-source="post: 889223" data-attributes="member: 12283">The problem is that the rule assumes that all such tackles are intentional and not incidental. I don’t at all buy the argument that defenders can always easily avoid this, especially when playing fast and attacking the QB head on. Like Street’s hit on Brees. There is no case that he was attempting anything extracurricular. To make that case is pure speculation. He didn’t even land directly on top of him. He rushed, he got an angle, he took Brees down in a textbook fashion. And yet it’s a 15 yard penalty... for tackling. This is my issue. It’s not because I thirst for more violence in the sport. It’s that they’re systematically making it harder for certain players to do their jobs just to protect this one marquee position. And on top of that, this is another rule that’s a judgment call. So players like Street, who didn’t actually land completely on top of the QB, get flagged anyways because the rule exists.</blockquote>

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