DeSean Jackson / Dunta Robinson hit

to get his arms around the receiver instead of trying to “blow him up” it might not have been worthy of a fine.

To give you an idea of how hard tackles can be made without endangering a players life take a look at this highlight film of Dick Butkus, one of the hardest hitting linebackers ever. When you watch you will notice that nearly every time he wraps up the player with his arms and doesn’t lead with his helmet. While he threw people around and stuck them head on, most of these highlight clips would not be judged worthy of any kind of penalty.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxR9qYSHt8U

however I feel you should be able to “blow someone up” as long as you don’t lead with your head

before Jackson had secured the ball. That makes him defenseless and his head is off limits.

I hate to post videos of Giants players getting smacked around but this is how you break up a pass / make a tackle, without leading with your head

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6Ywnk1b_nQ

When a MJD leads with his helmet and blows up a blitzer….or Hines Ward blows up a defenseless defender on a blindside block leaving the guy woozy or broken up. If you’re not gonna suspend across the board(which they won’t) then don’t suspend, period, unless intent to harm(Brandon Merriweather) is evident.

close, but not. He leads Shoulder to chest. Any helmet contact is incidental and minor. the Robinson hit on D-Jax and the Lewis hit on Keller are textbook AWESOME FOOTBALL.

In fact Ross Tucker agrees with me so I must be right.

The Meriwether hit was the worst, and Harrison on Cribbs was pretty bad.

Don’t lead with your goddamn helmet, and don’t aim for theirs. WTF is so complicated about this issue that I can’t get real game analysis from the media but instead have to hear this crap ad nauseam?

Don’t hit with your helmet, don’t hit the receiver in the head. End of discussion. Move on.

to recieve a blow(II) from the defender late in the game to get a flag thrown for illegal contact and get the yards/1st down?

this is going to open up a can of worms fa sho

Jackson was focused on the ball and not the field around him. I will admit one thing; Analyzing the hit from one view you can see that the helmet collided but he didn’t lead with the helmet he lead with his shoulder. If the victim of that hit was a nobody, we wouldn’t even be having this conversation.