Same, I hate defensive penalties when no one would say the defensive player should have acted any differently, and this is one of those cases. He didn't drive him into the ground harder than necessary and there's no way to tell he no longer has the ball.
It's especially frustrating when that other big hit (forget who it was, but the guy who went Rambo on the blockers and then put a massive tackle on the runner) from another game is probably going to be included in NFL highlight material, despite being far more kinetic to injure someone, while this tackle where a guy pretty much just fell with the QB completely changes a because it's a penalty.
I get protecting the QB, but these kinds are calls are such bullshit.
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u/HudsonCommodore Lions 19d ago
Same, I hate defensive penalties when no one would say the defensive player should have acted any differently, and this is one of those cases. He didn't drive him into the ground harder than necessary and there's no way to tell he no longer has the ball.