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Peyton Manning sack-slide?

POP said:
It was borderline and a judgement call and not reviewable by rule.

He seemed to kind of give himself up, but kind of fell. Hard to say which. If there wasn't a whistle, defenders shouldn't have relaxed. That is on them.
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It wasn't borderline. He didn't want to get hit and gave himself up and it's something he has done for virtually his entire career. Blow the play dead.
 


He assumed the defender was gonna make contact so he dropped. If you've watched enough Colts or Broncos games in the past, you would have seen Peyton do this on occasion to avoid being hit. Refs ****** up by not blowing the whistle......
 
blitzburghv5 said:
Refs ****** up by not blowing the whistle......
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No, they didn't.

By rule, a QB can not give himself up in the pocket.

I do not respect what Manning did, as it is somewhat cowardly, but he has done that since his college days at Tennessee.

However, it was great awareness on his part. Someone has to touch him down there.
 
At Tennessee he's down. If the NFL is going to put bubble wrap on QB's like they do a QB should be down immediately upon hitting the turf. He got into the fetal position, he was down. The rest is semantics and bullshit. I'm disappointed our players didn't have the awareness to touch him while he was down, but it was flat out bullshit and they need to fill the hole in that situation this off season.
 
Ya well, you KNOW if Ben had done that they would have blown the whistle instantly. INSTANTLY! There are only 2 QBs in the league that get away with that play.

But it doesn't matter. There's no point bitching about the play. We weren't going to win that game as crippled as we were anyway. It was a miracle we were even in it. If the Broncos hadn't been dumb enough to put Peyton out there it would have been terrible. The Denver receivers have been catching passes from a real QB for the last 5 or 6 weeks. They were completely unprepared to go bird-dogging.
 
If you look at the replay no one was near him to touch him. He slid down gave himself up assumed there would be a whistle and hopped up and threw the ball..
 
wig said:
Look at it this way, if a Steeler player had hit Manning even "kinda hard" on that "slide" it would have been a penalty.

enough said.
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Didn't even have to hit him. Just touch him.
 
Punxsutawney said:
No, they didn't.

By rule, a QB can not give himself up in the pocket.

I do not respect what Manning did, as it is somewhat cowardly, but he has done that since his college days at Tennessee.

However, it was great awareness on his part. Someone has to touch him down there.
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They can't? I really never thought of it. When the QB kneels at the end of a game, does the defense have to touch him, or is it giving himself up? Never really paid much attention to it. I would assume they are in the pocket in that situation.
 
coryea said:
just touch him down to be safe, you don't have to spear him or anything, just touch him.
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Why NOT? Spear the ******** chickenshit *******, teach him a lesson.......OH wait !!!!!!! This isn't the bunglesthugs playiers, this is our beloved STEELERS.!!!!!!!!




Salute the nation
 
diver said:
They can't? I really never thought of it. When the QB kneels at the end of a game, does the defense have to touch him, or is it giving himself up? Never really paid much attention to it. I would assume they are in the pocket in that situation.
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It makes as much sense as the QB spiking the ball directly behind his center, not being called for intentional grounding.

With that being said, I almost always see QBs being "touched" when kneeling in victory formations.

However, our Steelers just gave up on the whole freaking play in what was it? The third quarter?
 
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Spiking the ball to stop the clock is a specific exception. So is taking a knee. Any running can give himself up by intentionally going to the ground. You see it a lot with defensive players on an INT late in games. They run a few yards and then just go down and the refs blow the whistle.

What i would like to know is what Harrison got called for against the Bengals? The bengals OL flinched, but they called Harrison for i believe "delay of game" when he did not go across the line. He was essentially flagged for jogging in place.
 
Harrison was flagged for intentionally trying simulate the snap. He was flinching with the intention of making the OT jump..
 
It looked to me like Manning slipped...I didn't think he intended to slide because he was going around the OL and his feet left him. It could have gone either way, but I wasn't bothered by the call at all. Minority opinion, I know...
 
We were trying to figure this out as we watched. It will go back to fundumentals that they have to work on in the offseason and camp next year. Play to the whistle, sound tackling and making sure you get hand on a guy that is on the ground.
 
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Just sad.
 
But it doesn't matter. There's no point bitching about the play. We weren't going to win that game as crippled as we were anyway. It was a miracle we were even in it. If the Broncos hadn't been dumb enough to put Peyton out there it would have been terrible. The Denver receivers have been catching passes from a real QB for the last 5 or 6 weeks. They were completely unprepared to go bird-dogging.[/QUOTE]

Have to disagree. I thought we carried most of the play and outplayed them. Both teams dropped passes.
 
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Just sad.
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yeah it is sad...but I really could care less if they aren't going to call that...that is fine..but the calls have to be consistent it can't be PI one time because of who the WR and DB are and not the next..you can damn well bet that is a PI on Blake against Thomas or Sanders..
 
coryea said:
just touch him down to be safe, you don't have to spear him or anything, just touch him.
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I don't think anyone was close enough to touch him down, that's why he was able to get up and make a play if I recall correctly. I also don't think he was giving himself up, it looked like he slipped, realized no one was near enough to touch him, got up and made a play.

Papillon
 
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That's PI in every way. That's horrible
 
GRBman said:
It looked to me like Manning slipped...I didn't think he intended to slide because he was going around the OL and his feet left him. It could have gone either way, but I wasn't bothered by the call at all. Minority opinion, I know...
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He was nowhere near any OL.
 
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