I don't know what you were watching but that's not what I saw. He reached out with his left hand and touched the ball and the kicker kicked the ball and fell over. What's Sherman supposed to do? Let the kicker have a free run at the FG?
After the game, Woodson, Moss and Hasselbeck all said it wasn't a dirty play. Even Rex said in his post game press conference it wasn't dirty.
he obviously played the ball, he blocked the kick, hence it can't be roughing the kicker by the very definition of the rule.
he was offside, that penalty was called
the question becomes when was the play stopped, did he or should he have heard the whistle? If they didn't stop the play in a timely fashion, he has to complete the play, he can't just allow a FG
If they stopped the play in time for him to stop, the penalty would be unnecessary roughness. The talking heads are making that argument today, they stopped calling it roughing the kicker. But in true media tradition, they don't show us the refs blowing the play dead. I think if they did blow the play dead, they show it time and time and time again.
Just heard Rex Ryan say "it wasn't as bad as I thought, but it was still a ridiculous play". Whatever that means, "it wasn't as bad as he thought"
he was offside, that penalty was called
the question becomes when was the play stopped, did he or should he have heard the whistle? If they didn't stop the play in a timely fashion, he has to complete the play, he can't just allow a FG
If they stopped the play in time for him to stop, the penalty would be unnecessary roughness. The talking heads are making that argument today, they stopped calling it roughing the kicker. But in true media tradition, they don't show us the refs blowing the play dead. I think if they did blow the play dead, they show it time and time and time again.
Just heard Rex Ryan say "it wasn't as bad as I thought, but it was still a ridiculous play". Whatever that means, "it wasn't as bad as he thought"
if the whistle doesn't blow AND you actually block the kick, no problem
if the whistle blows OR you don't block the kick, problem
Sort of an unwritten rule. Cause if you do it to them, they will do it do you.
For example they dont take free shots at the center either. Cause you can literally dive for his elbows on every pk or punt, or down at the 1. But what goes around come around
They rarely do any funny business on kneel downs at the end of game either. I mean why not, what do you have to lose?
