Block in the back

[bigcatdaddy]

Why is no one talking about the block in the back on the Jackson punt return?It should have been called back. Anyone else see it?

[CBDellinger]

Why is no one talking about the block in the back on the Jackson punt return?It should have been called back. Anyone else see it?

I saw it from my seat in the stands several hundred yards away...

it was so fuging obvious.

[17+89=6]

They showed it on TV. They circled that specific block. And the announcers STILL said it wasn't a block in the back. I didn't think it could get any more blatant.

[TANTRIC-NINJA]

It was a block in the back........does it really matter.:mad2:

[freeonbail]

I don't know how anyone could not have seen it. Very blatant. Makes you wonder how and why the refs choose to make their calls. You would think, given that momentum is so critical in football and that a bad call can have such a huge effect on the outcome, the refs would want to get a call like that right. Guess not.

[bigcatdaddy]

I think it matters that took the air out of the fans in my section so I can only imagine what it did to the players on the field. And the announcers are idiots if they said it was legal because I watched the game again yesterday and he was pushed in the back and that gave Desean a huge lane to run through.

[DelhommesTheMan]

I remember reading about it somewhere on the Internet yesterday, it might have been Peter King MMQB that mentioned how bad of a call it was, ill check and get back..I know one of the "experts" mentioned it...

[Matt Foley]

The block in the back was terrible. The fact that the announcer kept pointing it out as a good block was ridiculous.

[Jangler]

Boy, if it had been called we might have won the game.

[DelhommesTheMan]

FOUND IT! Peter King proclaimed him Special teamer of the Week but had this to say!

"DeSean Jackson, WR/PR, Philadelphia. Jackson's the luckiest man on the face of the earth, Week 1 version. He broke open the Eagles-Panthers game with an 85-yard punt-return for touchdown in the second quarter at Charlotte, and he was barely touched on it. But one of the reasons he was barely touched was a how-did-they-miss-it illegal-block-in-the-back by Philly's Chris Clemons as the return just got up and running. The return, up the left side on an otherwise well-blocked play, gave Philadelphia a 17-7 lead, and the Eagles basically just grinded out the win from there.

Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/peter_king/09/13/week1/2.html#ixzz0RBCUDuId

[Darth Biscuit]

Boy, if it had been called we might have won the game.

I didn't see it, but I believe it... but what difference does it make? So they would have beat us 31-10 instead... the refs don't see everything... it's happened in our favor before too...

[tim]

Fox also mentioned they were sending the Eagles' 85-yard punt return in for review, believing one of their players was blocked illegally.

Yep, that was it.

It didn't help that P Jason Baker hit a low smoker that gave DeSean Jackson a nice running start before the coverage arrived.

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[St. Bernardus]

I will demand a refund.

[Darth Biscuit]

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Funny stuff...

[Fox said] "Tiger Woods and Roger Federer don't win every week," Fox said.

No, but Tiger doesn't fire 90s, and Federer typically clears the net with serves.

Well put Darin...