Conte fined for hit on Lafell

[jtnc]

NFL's defenseless receiver rule.

“It is a foul if a player initiates unnecessary contact against a player who is in a defenseless posture.

(a) Players in a defenseless posture are: [. . .]

(2) A receiver attempting to catch a pass; or who has completed a catch and has not had time to protect himself or has not clearly become a runner. If the receiver/runner is capable of avoiding or warding off the impending contact of an opponent, he is no longer a defenseless player;

[. . .]

( b ) Prohibited contact against a player who is in a defenseless posture is:

(1) Forcibly hitting the defenseless player’s head or neck area with the helmet, facemask, forearm, or shoulder, regardless of whether the defensive player also uses his arms to tackle the defenseless player by encircling or grasping him; and

(2) Lowering the head and making forcible contact with the top/crown or forehead/”hairline” parts of the helmet against any part of the defenseless player’s body.”

[lightsout]

It does not matter if he was "aiming" for the body, his helmet hit Lafell's. Secondly, you obviously saw Lafell walk off the sideline and have a team doctor/neurologist talk to him and obviously cleared him to play.

The thing to look at here. He's not playing for anything but a big hit. He could have easily stepped into the path of the receiver and caught him coming down and it's an easy tackle, since the receiver has no balance in midair with a corner in tight coverage, and in the process of making a play on it. Or, he had the choice of stepping up and trying for a deflection/pick himself.

What he did was clearly dirty. No two ways around it.

[Miaoww]

The NFL is getting soft. Simple as.

[beastson52]

Anyone know where to see a video of the hit? I missed the game due to work and have yet to see it. I want to see what all the fuzz is about in this thread.

[rayzor]

The thing to look at here. He's not playing for anything but a big hit. He could have easily stepped into the path of the receiver and caught him coming down and it's an easy tackle, since the receiver has no balance in midair with a corner in tight coverage, and in the process of making a play on it. Or, he had the choice of stepping up and trying for a deflection/pick himself.

What he did was clearly dirty. No two ways around it.

they all do it though.

most players on offense or defense do the same thing given the chance.

no dirtier than anyone else, imo.

doesn't make it right, tho, and it doesn't make the fine any less justifiable.

the heavy fines are there to prevent people from having more brain traumas and the players need to be thinking more about what they are doing before they do it.

the league...well...mainly tv and fans have celebrated the big hits and so players go for it. coaches and GMs draft defensive players because of their "violent hits". what's happened, though, is players care less about the fundamentals like basic tackling and more about just trying to deliver the hit and they all try to deliver them whenever they are in the area. they might be trying to go low and make a clean hit, but they all screw up and don't take into account that if the guy is falling, he's going to be lower than you anticipate and more than likely, you're going to be hitting his helmet and that may very well end up in a brain trauma.

it was an unnecessary hit that the guy could have avoided had he thought about what he was doing rather than just making an easy but violent hit....but he's no dirtier than most of the other players in the league.

[rayzor]

Anyone know where to see a video of the hit? I missed the game due to work and have yet to see it. I want to see what all the fuzz is about in this thread.

[CRA]

The NFL is getting soft. Simple as.

Not really. We know more from a medical/physical standpoint.....and athletes are bigger, faster, stronger.

Not tweaking NFL rules off what I just mentioned.....would be pure ignorance and stupidity.

They used to wear leather helmets.....so I guess Ronnie Lott was a puss.

[rayzor]

Not really. We know more from and medical/physical standpoint.....and athletes are bigger, faster, stronger.

Not tweaking NFL rules off what I just mentioned.....would be pure ignorance and stupidity.

They used to wear leather helmets.....so I guess Ronnie Lott was a puss.

agreed.

with them focusing so much on the big hits rather than tackling i think you could make an argument for it just getting lazy as much as you could accuse them of being soft.

[Guest Bwood]

Are you sure that's the hit he was fined for?

I thought it was the one on a slant and he just shoved LaFell to the ground for no reason which drew a penalty.

[rayzor]

Are you sure that's the hit he was fined for?

I thought it was the one on a slant and he just shoved LaFell to the ground for no reason which drew a penalty.

nope. it was that hit. cante. helmet to helmet. lafell got knocked out.

[Guest Bwood]

I couldn't even really see the helmet to helmet, but now I remember that being the play he was knocked out on.

[rayzor]

towards the end of that 2nd clip you can see cante's head snap back a little...that's when the helmet to helmet was.

[rodeo]

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[jtnc]

towards the end of that 2nd clip you can see cante's head snap back a little...that's when the helmet to helmet was.

Yep, that is what I saw as well. His head rattled a bit and you could tell that was when he made contact with Lafell's helmet.