Favre's Dirty Block?

[Longtimefan]

Originally Posted by BleedBurgundy

Favre went right at the side of the guy's knee. The dude wasn't even looking, everyone knows that if you dive into the side of someone's leg when their foot is planted, you're going to cause an injury. Favre deserved to get his ass kicked for that play.

"Have Gun Will Travel"......Wire Favre, somewhere in Mississippi. I've often wondered how Tavaris Jackson, Sage Rosenfelds and Chad Pennington feel as a result of being dissed for a walk on the last two years. We know all three are too inteligent to publically state their true feelings. If I'm either of the first two, when the old man gets hurt and I'm called upon, I'm going to remember and my bag is going to be mixed.

[jdlea]

Originally Posted by BleedBurgundy

Favre went right at the side of the guy's knee. The dude wasn't even looking, everyone knows that if you dive into the side of someone's leg when their foot is planted, you're going to cause an injury. Favre deserved to get his ass kicked for that play.

I can see where you're coming from with this, however, saying "the guy wasn't even looking" is garbage. One of the first things every defensive players learns is to keep your head on a swivel. Know where you are and what's coming at you, the defender didn't and that's why he wasn't looking. That's not good football.

I think that's the problem I have with all the new rules about illegal blocks. If defenders were doing what they're supposed to do, they wouldn't get blown up so much. I don't care if a hit's coming from the blindside, they should have been looking around and known what was coming at them.

[firstdown]

Originally Posted by Buster

Lets face it though, if this were Tavaris Jackson or Sage Rosenfels, we would not have even known about it unless we saw it live.

Favre can spill his Gatorade and it's front page news for a week.

Well the link here was to Youtube and not an article so is it really getting alot of air time. I'm sure someone will talk about it because it Brett and they need to fill some space but I don't see it all over the news. To me it looked like a 40 some year old QB looking up a seeing someone coming at him and he said OH SH!T and did more of a protection type hit which was actually more dangerous for both players.

[SC Skins Fan]

Originally Posted by Slingin Sammy 33

4. Crackback: Eligible receivers who take or move to a position more than two yards outside the tackle may not block an opponent below the waist if they then move back inside to block.

Childress needs to be very clear about this rule. Favre's block was clearly illegal. I don't think it was intentional though. But I can tell you in all the time I coached, I never taught going low on a crackback, I always had my players aim for the opponents ribcage.

Someone on the Vikes coaching staff needs to get a clue since they're going to be running a good bit of the Wildcat with Harvin. On this play Favre just made a pussy block.

Thank you for actually invoking the rules of football. I was about to do the same but figured I would see if anyone had beaten me to the punch. Unfortunately it falls on deaf ears.

If anyone has ever played football you know that if you get a crack on an opponent who does not see you coming you will take him out every time, there is actually absolutely no reason to go low (apart from cowardice and/or stupidity - Trent Green essentially ended his career on a similar play when his head collided with the defensive players knee when he went for the block - he was peeling back rather than split wide, but same principle involved).

In the one of the last two preseason games (I can't remember which) Albert Haynesworth actually was a victim of a crackback cut. It was a different situation because he was within 3 yards of the LOS, but the actual dynamics of the play were exactly the same. The play flowed away from Big Al, he pursued, and an offensive lineman who he did not see peeled off and cut him at the knees. If that had resulted in a torn ACL for the $100 million man I bet we would be having a different conversation. It is a reckless and unnecessary move, period.

[SmootSmack]

Favre has been fined $10,000 for the hit

[Jay Schroeder]

Thats like 10 cents to that rich hillbilly

[CRedskinsRule]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

Favre has been fined $10,000 for the hit

Yowsa