My biggest worry in terms of the new ejection rule for targeting is for when defensive players come in for the sack too high and their helmet barely bumps the QB's helmet. That one seems to always get called because the QB flops and raises hell about it. I guess the refs are allowed to look at replay for "conclusive evidence" that the hit to the helmet was not intentional, but I highly doubt it gets overturned much. Gonna be very inconsistent. It's going to be really pathetic seeing star players suspended for SEC and national title games because of inadvertent bumps to the helmet during a sack.

For example, this North Texas player would be ejected for this awesome play on Mettenberger, even though he does not seem to be going after a helmet to helmet hit. It just sort of happened as Mett leaned down to take the hit.

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Posted by TxTiger82

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Posted on 7/22/13 at 11:31 am to Monticello

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My biggest worry in terms of the new ejection rule for targeting is for when defensive players come in for the sack too high and their helmet barely bumps the QB's helmet. That one seems to always get called because the QB flops and raises hell about it. I guess the refs are allowed to look at replay for "conclusive evidence" that the hit to the helmet was not intentional, but I highly doubt it gets overturned much. Gonna be very inconsistent. It's going to be really pathetic seeing star players suspended for SEC and national title games because of inadvertent bumps to the helmet during a sack.

Those poor defensive linemen. Look at it this way. On the next level, they won't get ejected, they'll just be fined tens of thousands of dollars for a single poor decision.

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