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Originally Posted by cSpooge
They call what they see. Some of the calls were brutal but you also have to understand some of the rules are brutal as well. The roughing the kicker/passer penalties as they are currently written are complete garbage. You poke them and its a roughing penatly currently in the CFL.
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Roughing the passer is meant to be shots to the head. The easiest way to see that is see in the QB's helmet snaps back or gets jarred in anyway. In both cases, it was clear, in slow mo and in regular speed, that no part of the Stamps player made contact wit Ray's hemlet.
And there's a rule in the book..."Running into the kicker". A fair bit different then running over a kicker as he's following though, which is what roughing the kicker rule was meant to protect. When a guy dives and rolls into a kicker, 99/100 times thats called by refs running into a kicker. A 5yd penalty, no automatic first down...in the case the former was called and it gave the Eskimos a 3rd life on that drive.