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[QUOTE="HRE Otto IV, post: 5304144, member: 5685"]
What constitutes a "defenseless" WR? IMO that play does not apply. Had there been no contact to the head and the ball was let go, would it have been an incomplete or a fumble? He completed the catch. He made a FB move. In fact that move is what caused the H2H contact.

So your point #1 is open to interpretation. Just getting hit hard before you expect it does not constitute being defenseless. Again if that is defenseless, we need to go to fair catches on plays over the middle.

It was a bang bang play. The defender was in the process of breaking down to tackle. Given the spacing and the speed of the play, what exactly is the guy supposed to do differently there? And how exactly does one tackle while moving forward while at the same time having your head behind the initial contact. It is not physically possible. What the defender did was text book, you cannot penalize a player for making a text book play. If you do, just get rid of tackling all together.

The defender did not lead with the crown. The defender did not look to make contact above the shoulders. The defender did not launch himself up high. So if the only issue is H2H, how is it targeting? None of the other criteria required applied.

What is the purpose of the targeting penalty? Is it not to protect players from reckless play? Nothing about the defenders actions was reckless IMO.
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