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[QUOTE="OttosShoes, post: 5517342, member: 10231"]
So, I'm charged about this (have had concussions and they suck), so this is kind of a rant. I haven't watched the replay and reserve the right to change my mind if and when I do. That said, here is my current recollection on what happened:
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[*]Cook is making a catch and run and gets abruptly stopped.
[*]Cook gives himself up and/or is trapped by more than one defender. Forward progress is not called.
[*]Duke player runs in and makes a huge hit--straight to the head of a stopped player with a lowered shoulder--that breaks the ball lose.
[*]Cook may or may not have been down when that happened.
[*]ACC take is that he was up, he was still able to make forward progress/not defenseless, and the hit didn't lead with the crown of the helmet.
[*]ACC take also drops the implied 'unnecessary roughness,' ergo, believes that was a legitimate football play.
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*Maybe* they have a point to the letter of the law. I doubt it, but maybe.

I sure AF don't believe they can justify the spirit of the law. If this is how the rules are to be interpreted, then strategically defense should never down a runner, only trap him and hold him in place for all the other defenders to come and hit him until the ball comes loose. That's not football.

If this is really correct, then they either need to drop the rule because hits to the head are OK, or fix the rule to close whatever asinine loophole this hit found.
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