Thankfully it did not matter.
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and our other receiver to shine was the guy big and strong enough to deal with the physical play.
then thought maybe the official quickly realized the penalty would be refused anyway. but, you're right, there should have been an immediate pi flag against the defender on this. it was one spectacular catch!
the officials did not call penalties this game for some reason. i can recall only a single flag (holding against nd) the whole game.
most unusual.
We got away with some PI as well, it's the way they were calling the game both ways, which I'm not a fan of but it is what it is.
On this play I didn't expect a flag, because the defensive contact really wasn't that bad (compared to other things not called in the game) but was made to look bad because of how hard the WR came back for the ball. In the context of how this game was called that was a pretty clean play by both sides.
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unless he initiates the body contact. On this play body contact is initiated by the WR fighting back for the ball.
Please keep in mind, I'm looking at this in context of how the rest of the game was called.
You wouldn't want to see me as a ref, I'd be flagging PI on one side or the other almost every play until both sides started playing cleanly.
For the most part WRs in general get away with way more PI than defenders do...I'd shut that shit down. lol
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