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Does anyone else hate the targeting penalty?

Posted on 12/29/14 at 1:24 pm
Posted by 337Tiger19
Lake Charles, LA
Member since Feb 2014
2444 posts
Posted on 12/29/14 at 1:24 pm
Those hits are the kind you live for playing football. These players know what they signed up for.
Posted by elposter
Member since Dec 2010
25068 posts
Posted on 12/29/14 at 1:27 pm to
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Does anyone else hate the targeting penalty?


Should definitely be a 15 yard penalty. The ejection penalty is harsh though. Maybe one warning and then ejection would be better?

I do understand the desire to make the game safer. It's a tough balancing act.
Posted by REV-S
near tuscaloosa
Member since Feb 2012
1797 posts
Posted on 12/29/14 at 1:28 pm to
Yea because bama always does it and gets away with it, not consistent.
Posted by Smoke Dogg
NWA
Member since Nov 2012
99 posts
Posted on 12/29/14 at 1:34 pm to
I agree with it when it truly is a head to head contact, like spearing. But when slight head contact I dont like.
Posted by pvilleguru
Member since Jun 2009
60453 posts
Posted on 12/29/14 at 1:35 pm to
I don't hate the penalty.
Posted by WG_Dawg
Hoover
Member since Jun 2004
86611 posts
Posted on 12/29/14 at 1:46 pm to
It's stupid bc refs can't call it consistently. A guy getting hit hard in the chest could be targeting just because it looked vicious. "Targeting" should not even exist. We were perfectly fine having penalties for a)leading with the crown of the helmet and b)hitting a player in the head. Those both make sense and are clearly definable. "Targeting" seems like it's just whatever refs feel like calling.


When we're playing a game where this:


leads to a 15 yard penalty and a player ejection, something is wrong.
Posted by EKG
Houston, TX
Member since Jun 2010
44119 posts
Posted on 12/29/14 at 1:48 pm to
At full speed, it's next to impossible to pull back--in mid-air--from many of those plays.
The one in this game, for example was so close to looking like it was at the shoulder, you couldn't even see the difference in slo-mo.
Ejections in such instances are ludicrous.
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