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Originally Posted by FRPLG
While the tackle has always been around and legal it hasn't been prevalent and that would lead me to believe that it was sorta of an unspoken rule that it wasn't kosher and one better not try it without conisdering the likelyhood of getting one's ass handed to them in short order. I am just guessing but there are a bunch of things like this and I think it needs to move back into the the player policed rules. I consider it dirty to tackle a guy in a way that you know is very likely to cause significant injury regardless of the tackled player's ability to withstand hits. Hitting a guy at full speed head on is part of the game. The player tackling and the player being tackled take on risk and there is a good chance that no one gets hurt or that the tackler gets hurt. When you are chop blocking or horse collaring you taking no risk as a tackler and putting the other player in a very dangerous position where they could be seriously injured. Thats dirty.
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I totally agree that it's a shady way to tackle - my point on Roy not being a dirty player was that it WAS within the rules in seasons PAST. He's obviously made a living at tackling like that since he still habitually collars somebody every game, and I believe he should be called on it now.
The tackle of Rock Cartwright after his 50+ yard run against the Rams was one of the most blatant horse collars I've seen - officials just aren't enforcing the rule with any common sense. The NFL should do the right thing and ban any grabbing of the shirt collar and using your weight to halt a player in his tracks. This fallback that the tackler has to be under the pads and pulling the runner backward is B.S., as if a ref can tell the difference between shirt collar and pads at game speed.