You can touch the long snapper on the jump over, you just can’t land on him or have more than incidental contact.

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Yeah, I don’t honestly know what the NFL is thinking. Some guys take huge shots that are never called, and then it’s illegal for a defensive player to even make contact with a QB’s helmet. I’ve seen my team get penalized when a DE has a run at the QB and jumps to block a pass on a pump fake and then brushes the QB’s…

I’m pretty sure the election we deserve in 2020 at this point is clearly Mark Cuban vs Donald Trump: Battle of the Billionaire TV stars!!

Nice two-fer with the face melting and the subtle Nazi dig. . .

And any laws that ban human turtle breeding. . .

Yeah, it’s worrying, and Kennedy seems to be getting a bit older as well. Trump could possibly get 4 SCOTUS justices appointed in the next 4-8 years. . .

Yeah, but what knows if she can last 4 to 8 more years . . .

Don’t forget the SCOTUS! President Trump would get to push through Scalia 2.0 (and possibly another 2).

Hahahahahaha, Hillary’s general terrible-ness and shadiness is gonna get Trump elected. . .

That play is perfectly legal. Once the QB is out of the pocket and not about the throw, you cannot call illegal contact and it is perfectly legal for a defender to knock a WR down who might be trying to block for a QB that is going to start running.

What you’re looking for is illegal contact, which cannot be called when the QB is out of the pocket and running with the ball. The play is perfectly legal and happens 20 times a game by both teams (you just can’t usually see it since they don’t show down the field unless the ball is thrown).

Yeah, and from what the ref said, they were holding the ball because they have to switch out the kicking balls between plays for the kick and then the spike and then the kick and it seems the ref just didn’t realize that the play clock was down to like 5 seconds before the ref got off the ball. . .

I am a Seahawks homer, and I absolutely agree that the Refs blew this play. It should have been called dead as soon as Sherman turned the corner and no one was there to block him, and if he had then continued in and hit Carpenter, I’d also agree he should’ve been ejected.

I mean, it’s a crazy play and the refs should’ve stopped it. I don’t know what the hell they were thinking. Having a player get a free run is usually blown dead. This isn’t a Richard Sherman problem, it’s a Refs problem (like most things that have happened in the NFL this year). . .

Um, but the ball WAS kicked and went 40 yards downfield off to the right because Sherman put his hand in front of it as Carpenter kicked it and then ran into his legs as he followed through.

I agree with you 100%. This is exactly what I think happened. I think Sherman was so early that he must’ve thought “Shit, I bet I was offside, but I haven’t heard a whistle yet— oh shit, he’s still going to kick it. . .”

If it was a QB, they would have blown the play dead for ‘unabated to the QB’. Apparently kickers get no such protection. . .

Watch it again. He reaches down and very clearly has his hand in front of the ball as it’s kicked and the ball shanks off to the right off of Sherman’s hand as he’s standing in front of the kicker. . .

99.9% of blocked kick attempts see the defender stretch his limbs as far as possible.