r/CFB • u/A_MASSIVE_PERVERT Purdue Boilermakers • 3h ago

Video [Highlight] Ohio State vs. Indiana: OSU's Jermaine Mathews called for an RTP on Josh Hoover on 2nd and 15

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u/Wide_right_yes UMass Minutemen 3h ago

What's the defender supposed to do there? Have a magic momentum stopper?

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u/Coltshokiefan Florida State • Virginia Tech 3h ago

Not launch with his helmet pointed down. Any contact to the QBs helmet is a penalty. I’m glad he’s not ejected but cmon, that’s textbook.

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u/Bacondog22 3h ago

He didn’t contact the helmet

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u/OnionFutureWolfGang Notre Dame Fighting Irish 3h ago edited 2h ago

He did contact it. Very incidentally but you can clearly see the contact.

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u/pro_nosepicker Iowa Hawkeyes 2h ago

If it’s incidental that’s irrelevant. Refs specifically said that.

Can’t go high. Can’t go low. Now you can’t go middle either.

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u/OnionFutureWolfGang Notre Dame Fighting Irish 2h ago

Yeah it doesn't make it a flag, but I think it's important to be correct and you can see the contact. It's just incidental, not forcible which is the word used in the roughing definition.

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u/Key_Ad_621 3h ago

Like you said, incidentally, shouldn’t be a flag

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u/OnionFutureWolfGang Notre Dame Fighting Irish 2h ago edited 2h ago

Yes of course. But the other comment is wrong and mine is right.

I'm getting downvoted for being right and correcting someone who is wrong, because the wrong comment is taking the most maximal "not a flag" position and indeed it shouldn't have been a flag. Reddit is so stupid.

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u/Bacondog22 2h ago

It’s not about being right or wrong. It’s about owning the narrative.

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u/SnukeInRSniz Utah Utes 2h ago

It's not incidental when you lower your head, lead with shoulder, and launch yourself into the person you are tackling. That is very very intentional.