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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dantés" data-source="post: 889261" data-attributes="member: 12283">Let me clarify what I mean.Multiple people in this thread defending the rule have said something to the effect of "the rule is good because defenders don't *need* to land on a QB that way." But that argument suggests that in cases where this takes place, it's always a choice. Presumably, the thinking is that the defender is sacking the QB and can, in that moment, choose to land on him or not.And while that is probably true sometimes, it is often not true. Landing on a player you're tackling is often incidental. It's an unintentional outcome of tackling someone. So my point is that it's bad for the game to make an incidental outcome of a defender doing his job into a 15 yard penalty. It would be much simpler to say that as long as the QB has the ball, you can tackle him the way you can tackle any other ball carrier. Injuries happen in football, and every player on the field take that risk. If 40+ year old QB's can't handle it any more, they should retire.</blockquote>

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