bigfoot5415
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The hold was ticky-tack, but the defenseless reciever was textbook. I've seen a lot of people complaining about it all over without actually knowing the rule.Just finished watching the game. Thank god they don’t review penalties. Those last two on our final drive to go up. Yikes
Defenseless posture definition below:
- A receiver attempting to catch a pass who has not had time to clearly become a runner. If the player is capable of avoiding or warding off the impending contact of an opponent, he is no longer a defenseless player
- illegally launching into a defenseless opponent. It is an illegal launch if a player (i) leaves both feet prior to contact to spring forward and upward into his opponent, and (ii) uses any part of his helmet to initiate forcible contact against any part of his opponent’s body. (This does not apply to contact against a runner, unless the runner is still considered to be a defenseless player, as defined in Article 7.)