Originally Posted by czbrian
That's not the definition of late hit in the rule book though and I don't think the refs through a flag for a late hit. He engaged the quaterback before the ball left his hands. The whistle was not blown to call the play dead. Myles Garrett's head was buried in the torso of the QB the entire time for the tackle and it was actually less than 2 seconds from the time of contact until on the ground.
The rule for roughing the passer states "the defensive player must strive to wrap up the passer with the defensive player's arms and not land on the passer with all or most of his body weight." That's what he was doing by twisting him so that the QB actually lands on him. If he would have tackled him to the ground landing on top of the QB, he would be more likely to get a roughing the passer penalty.
nobody is saying it wast a late hit. It's was a bad hit as in there should not have been the take down. I don't know if it was within the rules or not but it was an unnecessary hit. It was one of those hits where the QC could've had his knee or ankle pinned as he was being pulled to the ground.
That's not the definition of late hit in the rule book though and I don't think the refs through a flag for a late hit. He engaged the quaterback before the ball left his hands. The whistle was not blown to call the play dead. Myles Garrett's head was buried in the torso of the QB the entire time for the tackle and it was actually less than 2 seconds from the time of contact until on the ground.
The rule for roughing the passer states "the defensive player must strive to wrap up the passer with the defensive player's arms and not land on the passer with all or most of his body weight." That's what he was doing by twisting him so that the QB actually lands on him. If he would have tackled him to the ground landing on top of the QB, he would be more likely to get a roughing the passer penalty.
nobody is saying it wast a late hit. It's was a bad hit as in there should not have been the take down. I don't know if it was within the rules or not but it was an unnecessary hit. It was one of those hits where the QC could've had his knee or ankle pinned as he was being pulled to the ground.
