Watertown @ Mt Juliet Christian

[TigerFan76]

Thoughts?

[beantheclown]

Well, after watching their Friday night game..... MJCA must not have gotten the new rule change memo......

2-3-10 (NEW), 9-4-3n (NEW), 9-4 PENALTY: Added a new definition for a blindside block and specifies a penalty for an illegal blindside block.

Rationale: Continuing with the focus on risk minimization, the committee created a definition for a blindside block. This block involves contact by a blocker against an opponent who, because of physical positioning and focus of concentration, is vulnerable to injury. Unless initiated with open hands, it is a foul for excessive and unnecessary contact when the block is forceful and outside of the free-blocking zone.

MJCA recievers crack down on OLB not leading with hands and actually in the back...which is a block in the back.  The officials never called it.  They also took out the kicker on PAT that left the kicker down....not sure he made it back in.

But, to be fair to MJCA this was a poorly officiated game.  GCA had several blocking below the waist that were not called.  The average HS Football fan does not understand the free blocking zone.  In today's game with most teams in the shotgun you only have about a second of free-blocking.  Once the ball leaves the free-blocking zone there is no longer free-blocking. 

But make no mistake about it....MJCA cracked down blocks are blindside and under the new rules illegal!

[Purplegorn]

Watertown by three scores at least

[GeneralForrest]

Watertown big 

[Ole3putt]

Go. H2O - Town. Put it toM'

[FBfan26]

On 8/21/2017 at 8:15 AM, beantheclown said:

Well, after watching their Friday night game..... MJCA must not have gotten the new rule change memo......

2-3-10 (NEW), 9-4-3n (NEW), 9-4 PENALTY: Added a new definition for a blindside block and specifies a penalty for an illegal blindside block.

Rationale: Continuing with the focus on risk minimization, the committee created a definition for a blindside block. This block involves contact by a blocker against an opponent who, because of physical positioning and focus of concentration, is vulnerable to injury. Unless initiated with open hands, it is a foul for excessive and unnecessary contact when the block is forceful and outside of the free-blocking zone.

MJCA recievers crack down on OLB not leading with hands and actually in the back...which is a block in the back.  The officials never called it.  They also took out the kicker on PAT that left the kicker down....not sure he made it back in.

But, to be fair to MJCA this was a poorly officiated game.  GCA had several blocking below the waist that were not called.  The average HS Football fan does not understand the free blocking zone.  In today's game with most teams in the shotgun you only have about a second of free-blocking.  Once the ball leaves the free-blocking zone there is no longer free-blocking. 

But make no mistake about it....MJCA cracked down blocks are blindside and under the new rules illegal!

Haven't seen anybody really call it yet this year and I've seen 5 games. 4 Jamboree games and1 friday.

[FBfan26]

On 8/21/2017 at 8:41 AM, Purplegorn said:

Watertown by three scores at least

I'll believe it when I see it.

[croz6110]

2 hours ago, FBfan26 said:

Haven't seen anybody really call it yet this year and I've seen 5 games. 4 Jamboree games and1 friday.

They called is once in the Watertown-Gordonsville game, and it was a bad call, but I also saw it called in a jr. pro game this weekend.

[beantheclown]

2 hours ago, FBfan26 said:

Haven't seen anybody really call it yet this year and I've seen 5 games. 4 Jamboree games and1 friday.

Like I said... in the GCA and MJCA game it was a poorly officiate game both ways.  The NCOA tends to have better officials week in and week out who will have been trained on the new points of emphasis.  

[FBfan26]

Told yall

[steelcityroller]

Mt. Juliet Christian 42

Watertown 21

Final