Objective look at White targeting penalty

You're just wasting your time at this point dude

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Objective look at White targeting penalty

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Objectively, you can suck that tiger dick.

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That is more targeting than White's hit. Heck, White still has a foot on the ground when he's making contact, doesn't really seem like much "launching" to me, and certainly not at the head/neck are when he hits in the chest area first with his hand.

Sorry, but where is the "forcible contact to the head or neck area"?

The chest is not the neck.

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An ACTUAL Objective look at White targeting penalty

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Dean Waite, a former SEC official who graduated from the University of Georgia with an undergraduate and law degrees, who now practices law in Mobile, Alabama, has explained his opinion. Waite officiated SEC games from 2007-10.

Waite recently told AL.com that he would have handled the review process differently about White being ejected for targeting Mississippi State QB Nick Fitzgerald.

“I’m OK with the call on the field live,” Waite said of the White penalty. “It looked enough like it that I’m OK with it being called. I think when they looked at it, however, they should’ve taken the call away.”

“You definitely have a defenseless player,” he said. “He was in the act of throwing or just got finished throwing, so he was a defenseless player. Basically, the rule says you can’t target or make forceable contact with the head or neck area of a defenseless player with the helmet. It even includes the forearm, hand, fist, elbow, shoulder, anything. You just can’t go to the head or neck area.”

In Waite’s opinion, there wasn’t enough there to constitute an ejection.

“In order to call a foul, you have to have to one element or indicator of targeting,” he said. “Some of those indicators are a launch, lowering the head before making contact. What I saw, on replay, was a guy going in. He did lead with his forearms, but what he did was he hit the guy in the chest with his forearm. I didn’t see any effort to hit in the neck or head area. Now, their helmets did wind up making contact a little bit, but that was a result of the shove.”

Though it appeared to Waite that White launched himself.

“It does look like his feet came off the ground,” Waite admitted. “But again, I didn’t see any effort to go to the neck or head area. It just isn’t leaving your feet. You have to be launching to attack your opponent in the head or neck area.”

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look at it again

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Running with your upper body and hands forward isn't launching. The definition of launching is leaving your feet. Dude never hit the ground.

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Objective look

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White clearly "launches"

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Eat a dick.

Hush Greg Stankey, you boys batched it.

If you want to, you can make almost any tackle fit into that definition. Any tackle in which the defenders feet are not on the ground could be called targeting if it is looked at with your mindset.

Don’t overthink it. Watch the replay. White shoved him in the chest just after the ball was released. It doesn’t even reach roughing the passer, let alone targeting.