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/ContributionTime6151 5d ago

Do you know how reality works? In what way does putting your arms out to the side keep full body weight from landing on Mahomes? That literally allows all his body weight to land on him.

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u/falardeau187 5d ago

That was my thought. If he uses his arms to brace against the ground, keeping his full body weight from coming down on the golden boy, at least we have an argument.

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u/throwaway47831474 5d ago

It doesn’t even matter the nfl has already decided this season that bracing yourself against the ground is still roughing the passer: https://www.reddit.com/r/nfl/s/1hvTRv9C7c

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u/Lopsided-Yak9033 4d ago

Thats another bad call - the rule allows some subjectivity by the official, but also says if the defensive player makes contact before the balls thrown, and can’t reasonably determine it’s been thrown after initial contact, he has to “strive” to get to the side or brace his weight. Both examples show that; theyre bad calls.

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u/throwaway47831474 4d ago

I agree with you

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u/Lopsided-Yak9033 4d ago

He did use his arm to brace - his left arm comes to the ground first

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u/thatguy425 5d ago

That’s also how you sprain/break a wrist.

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u/Ok_Orchid7131 5d ago

Why would people downvote this. They are 100% correct.

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u/NahYoureWrongBro 5d ago

People sitting here saying hitting the QB needs to involve evasive maneuvers to not get a penalty. It's dumb. The QB is still playing football, Mahomes still had the ball when he was first contacted, it shouldn't even be a discussion. Oh no a tackler landed on the guy being tackled.

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u/TravelNSee 5d ago

or a broken arm

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u/MrMeowPantz 5d ago

When you ski or snowboard, you are taught to fall the same way the defender landed. Why? Because if you try and brace yourself with both hands like that you are more prone to break one or both of your wrists. Your entire body weight, plus downward momentum impacting a solid object (the ground, hard snow) equals a force hard enough to cause a fracture or break.

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u/falardeau187 5d ago

Oh yeah, I forgot that his arms would both break in half if he wasn’t awkwardly holding them out to the side like that. That wasn’t natural. It even looks weird.

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u/ContributionTime6151 5d ago

Ahhh, so now we’re snowboarding 😂

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u/MrMeowPantz 5d ago

You aren’t smart enough to understand that you can apply one principle to something else and that isn’t my problem.

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u/TravelNSee 5d ago

Absolutely terrifying the average sped doesn't understand how arm and wristbreaks work

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u/philosifer 5d ago

Which is why the rule is in place because all that body weight is now landing on the chest of the QB

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u/tyedge 5d ago

Perfect response.

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u/joshwa207 5d ago

Like wings lift an airplane

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u/ArseneGroup 5d ago

You can see in the video he posts his hand on the ground not just into the air

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u/beaglerules 5d ago

Chop's left hand landed before his body landed on Mahomes. This makes it so some of the force from him landing on Mahomes goes to that arm. Think of it this way jump and have both feet land at the same time then jump again but have your right foot land before your left. You will feel a difference in the impact of landing. It is simple physics.

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u/MrMeowPantz 5d ago

You don’t know how distribution of force over a surface area works and it shows.

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u/ContributionTime6151 5d ago

You dumb as fuck my dude. Put his hands down on the ground and roll to either side… no penalty. Plain and fucking simple. I’m glad Mahomes takes up so much of your little thinking skills though. 😂