re: Thoughts on new rule change for this season regarding defenseless player

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It's like holding. It could be called often or rarely - room for subjectivity. Lot of gray area and tough for the officials as well as fans.

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And I get that. But this is made worse by the previous statement from shaw regarding targeting:

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I know targeting gets so much press. It -- because of the implication of the player, the disqualification component, we have to be correct.
Now, let me preface this by saying there's no change to our officials on the field. The rule book says when in question, it's a targeting foul. It's not Shaw, it's not anybody else. The rule book says when in question, it's a targeting foul.

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So now you have an extremely gray-area type judgment call with a runner sliding and getting nicked accidentally by an elbow on the helmet, and by the letter of the law officials, if they have any doubt, are supposed to automatically defer to targeting.