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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BrokenArrow" data-source="post: 743143" data-attributes="member: 12225"><p>Simple.  Pause it at the 0:21 mark.  Barr is coming from the front left.  He had time to see that the ball was clearly gone.  At that point he had not yet lowered his head to make a full tackle.  The collision was going to happen, but could have simply wrapped him up and then held him up, or he could have turned his body a little and hit him with a glancing blow.  Guys do that all the time in the exact same situation.  But instead he lowered his head and shoulders and went with a full force tackle by choice, not because he somehow had no choice.  His momentum didn't cause him to wrap him up and drive him to the ground.  That was a conscious decision.  I never said he deserved any kind of fine or suspension.  But the rules states that it is the defender's responsibility to recognize when the ball has been thrown and he is given ONE step.  Barr took two before contact.  The fact is it was a borderline play.  We've all seen a penalty called multiple times on such a play and we've seen non-calls too.  20 years ago it never would have been called.  But in the hyper-safety-consciousness of the Goodell Football League, it is called more often than not.  In fact, he was looking at the ref as he was getting up, fully expecting to get a penalty.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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