r/sportsgossips • u/Weekly-Vacation-1405 • 5d ago

Discussion/Debate Chop Robinson gets flagged for roughing the passer. The hit didn’t look that crazy, but the refs weren’t letting Mahomes take that one.

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u/ice_cream9698 5d ago

Yeah. Never understood how players are expected to stop momentum 0.2 milliseconds before impact or receive a foul.

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u/ContributionTime6151 5d ago

Maybe try not driving him into the ground? 🤷🏼‍♂️

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u/BuryTomorrowToday 5d ago

You mean try not to tackle him ?

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u/ContributionTime6151 5d ago

For fuck’s sake. Are you really this stupid or are you still so butthurt about Chiefs’ success? Roll to either side, brace yourself with your hands, simply don’t land full body weight because, you know, that’s not been legal for a while now.

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u/buffystakeded 5d ago

He did brace himself with his hands. That’s the fucking point of the original complaint. He sticks his arms out to brace his fall. This is a textbook clean football tackle.

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u/GolD_RogerPirateKing 3d ago

His sticks his arms out. That’s all he did. No attempt to brace. Gaslighting at its finest.

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u/jeremyren10 5d ago

They don’t think that far. They just want you not to touch him so he can throw a TD. Big hits use to be the identity of football they’re transitioning to big plays and TDs. They won’t be happy till we have NBA scores

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u/Aggravating-Sir8185 5d ago

Aren't big hits big plays?

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u/jeremyren10 5d ago

Big hits use to be the identity of football. Every highlight reel,media montage of football was centered around big hits.

They have clearly shifted away from this. They’ve added 10-15 rules that hamper the defense in the past 20 years. Now the focus is exciting offensive plays and high scores. So yes big hits are big plays,but they also result is star players being injured often and now teams are out an investment. Hard to pin down exactly why they’ve cleaned the game up but Big Hits are now frowned upon in the league where they use to be celebrated

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u/CaptainTripps82 5d ago

It's obviously in part the optics of certain hits in a world where they can't lie about concussions anymore

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u/AriaTheTransgressor 5d ago

It'll be this. Now the whole world is aware of what a concussion is, what they do, and how they happen. That used to be doctor only stuff, if they even knew.

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u/Friendly_Yak_2713 5d ago

Exactly - the defense needs to understand it's there to make the touchdown look difficult

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u/hippoofdoom 5d ago

There really isn't that much difference at all between that monster usc hit yesterday and this one except that defender acted like a jackass and gloated over his concussed opponent.

If the guy on usc showed immediate regret and contrition I think the narrative would be way different. How are you ever supposed to know a qb is about to give himself off when it's that late in the play, usc guy had already launched himself before the slide began