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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jon" data-source="post: 889289" data-attributes="member: 15113">The 'full body weight on a QB' issue is about two things:  QBs are pretty much defenseless compared to a ball carrier getting tackled or a linebacker getting pancaked, and the QB is critical to the NFL producing entertainment they can sell--  big names making special plays over and over again.  OK, they get a couple of different rules and to some degree the ref uses his judgment so this call or that one might be iffy.  Also, like the safety who didn't pull up on a defenseless receiver, there's nothing the defensive player can do to avoid it.  Tough breaks;  the rule is the rule.Should it be the rule is another matter, and in this a major non-football factor comes in.  A year or 12 from from now an NFL defense lawyer will be a court room talking about these rules and all the times it was called as a penalty when it really wasn't as simply more evidence of the NFL's long time, huge, and deeply sincere effort to prevent long term injury to players in the hope a jury doesn't award $500 million to an ex-QB with dementia.</blockquote>

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