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re: The Targeting penalty is broken
Posted on 10/20/24 at 9:53 am to SemperFiDawg
Posted on 10/20/24 at 9:53 am to SemperFiDawg
That targeting call late in the fourth where the guy made a clean tackle around the waist-- if he kept his head up he would have broken his neck making the tackle. What is he supposed to do?
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Posted on 10/20/24 at 9:55 am to SemperFiDawg
How many UGA players missing the next game for targeting?
Posted on 10/20/24 at 9:56 am to SemperFiDawg
We need to see comparison videos of what college football had in mind when they set the Targeting rule.
I bet the differences would be shocking from what the videos used for the discussion for setting the rule vs. what's being called recebtly (last night Georgia-Texas game).
I bet the differences would be shocking from what the videos used for the discussion for setting the rule vs. what's being called recebtly (last night Georgia-Texas game).
Posted on 10/20/24 at 9:58 am to SemperFiDawg
Yep and both were in 2nd half so now they miss the first half of Florida…
Posted on 10/20/24 at 9:59 am to UltimaParadox
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Hard hit= flag and they look for targeting
This is what bothers me the most. If a player gets hit hard, the refs automatically drop a flag for "personal foul with targeting" with the expectation that it will be reviewed - like it's better to be safe than sorry. However, if they review and find it to be a clean hit, the targeting aspect is removed but they can't remove the personal foul.
Posted on 10/20/24 at 9:59 am to SemperFiDawg
I agree. It is a nice tool to manipulate games inasmuch as “the booth” can do it anonymously. The first one was an awful call (against Jackson). All in all the officiating gets a richly deserved F.
Posted on 10/20/24 at 10:00 am to ColoradoAg
Agree 100%
Posted on 10/20/24 at 10:02 am to SemperFiDawg
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Ive seen it misapplied all year in various games but last night vs Tx it reached the point of absurdity.
Actually last week in BR was mind boggling. How do you now include “intent” there but not last night.
Posted on 10/20/24 at 10:02 am to Lonnie Utah
Well the unspoken ugly truth is that elimination of the helmets would straighten all of the out.
Posted on 10/20/24 at 10:06 am to SidewalkDawg
The rule is not practically enforceable. It’s a tool for manipulation.
Posted on 10/20/24 at 10:06 am to Smokeyone
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How many UGA players missing the next game for targeting?
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Aguero and Dan Jackson.
Sark wanted it called on Bolden too. And Fowler and Kirk mentioned it 2-3 more times as well. It was pathetic
Posted on 10/20/24 at 10:07 am to SidewalkDawg
This. It will never happen.
Posted on 10/20/24 at 10:10 am to TheTideMustRoll
The irony is that CTE correlates with total number of blows to the head most of which are sub concussive. The same as the total jabs a boxer eats. It’s a fake solution to a real problem. With soccer players it correlates with lifetime headers.
Posted on 10/20/24 at 10:13 am to dhuck20
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And Fowler and Kirk mentioned it 2-3 more times as well. It was pathetic
Yep Hebstriet (sp?) lobbied for it for big time. That would have given us 3 suspended next game for making form tackles.
Posted on 10/20/24 at 10:14 am to Jobu93
quote:You could see the white stripe on Aguero’s helmet to the side of the Texas player which would mean the “crown” of his helmet wasn’t making contact with the receiver. It wasn’t targeting. Georgia’s been tackling like arse all season…they finally have a good game tackling and this is the bullshite they deal with.
The 2nd Georgia player ejected- I’m sorry, but I will go to my grave thinking that was a form tackle.
Posted on 10/20/24 at 10:19 am to SneakyWaff1es
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he ejection aspect should be removed entirely
Ejection should occur only after a second targeting call against the same player in the same game.
If you are serious about CTE either (1) remove helmets from the game entirely (2) require the wearing of the protective padding over the helmet or (3) go back to leather helmets
Posted on 10/20/24 at 10:24 am to HailToTheChiz
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Hard hit= flag and they look for targeting... Which could be applied to basically every tackle.
quote:I agree, but would add that forcible contact to the helmet should be a 15 yarder and then crown of the helmet, helmet to helmet contact should be an ejection.
The ejection aspect should be removed entirely
The targeting penalty on UGA in the 2nd half was the right call by the way the rule is written, but 10 years ago that was just a hard football hit.
Look at the pads a QB wears today vs Peyton Mannings rookie year in the NFL. QBs actually needed protection then and now the rules protect the QB from what used to be just hard, good football hits. WRs are moving that way too.
And Allen wears beefier pads than many NFL QBs.
Posted on 10/20/24 at 10:26 am to SidewalkDawg
Not lower the crown of your head.
Posted on 10/20/24 at 10:27 am to Placekicker
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Neither of those two targeting calls were actually targeting. Both were just really hard hits.
The Aguero one was not helmet to helmet and not centered.
When the announcers started talking about how it can be anything leading with a crouch it becomes totally subjective because there is no way you can judge if a player is trying to avoid a helmet to helmet tackle when the offensive player lowers their body to absorb a hit.
Posted on 10/20/24 at 10:31 am to SneakyWaff1es
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this is the bullshite they deal with.
And yet Sankey claims that there are no problems with bias in SEC officiating.
This game proved that there is.
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