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Message: [QUOTE="Brooky03, post: 1609198"] Just watched the play. That's football. He clearly let up and didn't launch himself, he had less than a half second to react, and there was no helmet-to-helmet contact. The targetting rules are intended to prevent anything that's helmet-to-helmet and prevent hits that are intentionally high and dangerous. This was neither, and I literally don't see any alternative for the linebacker in that situation. Player safety is important but you have to allow for players to play the game. That was a clean hit everyway you slice it. It's unfortunate when wide receivers get concussions but A) they know exactly what they're signing up for by playing the sport, and B) penalizing incidental contact isn't going to clean up anything; when players are in situations where they can't physically do anything to avoid hitting the defenseless player up high, there's no behavior to modify by enforcing penalties. [/QUOTE]