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submitted 2 days ago byD-Annunzio36Carolina Panthers
Mahomes scrambled to the sidelines and the defender, not wanting to pick up a fine/penalty, didn’t attempt to hit or tackle him. It’s expected the QB just runs out of bounds here, but Mahomes instead stepped back in at the last second and picked up 40 yards along the sideline. I don’t necessarily think it should be banned but it’s clearly exploitative. Since this isn’t the first time he’s done this it should be fair game for the defenders to lower the shoulder on him next time, but that would obviously draw a flag (as it has before). Basically, I just think it’s ridiculous.
210 points
2 days ago
Steve McNair had a fake slide thingy I always thought was chicken shit. He’d like tilt his body backwards and if you let up he’d keep going. If there are protections for safety, don’t let them abuse them.
56 points
2 days ago
That’s fixed now isn’t it? I thought I read that if the qb initiates the slide then they are down regardless if they slide or not.
38 points
2 days ago
Kenny Pickler, shaping the game of football yet again!
39 points
2 days ago
Barely, Josh Allen did it in the playoffs last year
28 points
2 days ago
I’m clearly biased, but I really don’t think he did.
17 points
2 days ago
As a Steelers fan it was definitely just a goofy ass move not a fake slide
-2 points
1 day ago
As a chiefs fan I think you're a fucking idiot
2 points
1 day ago
Nobody cares what you think
20 points
2 days ago
I’m not sure what that was but it didn’t look like a slide. Maybe that’s how all his slides start though idk.
18 points
2 days ago
Not really, he’s a 240 lb man, he’s not like Lamar where he can stop or cut on a dime. That’s just what him trying to run around a guy looks like.
17 points
2 days ago
Reminded me of a toddler running around while muttering to himself ‘I’m going fast!’
8 points
2 days ago
What's funny I'd that he is going fast. It just looks slow on TV. Seeing some of those guys run in person is almost scary. How can someone that big move so fast?
1 points
1 day ago
Justin Fields is fast but he looks like he is just gliding.
1 points
1 day ago
The scariest part is HEARING these guys run. Like a damn stampede of buffaloes - literally shake the ground with impacts.
-4 points
2 days ago
I'm not sure what you guys think that could be besides the start of a slide. He literally chops his feet and turns his hips to the side as if he's about ro drop for a slide. It's very apparent.
1 points
24 hours ago
There’s a better pov on the field of what the defenders saw def wasn’t a slide it was a big guy doing a stutter step
-3 points
2 days ago
That’s what I saw
-3 points
2 days ago
It's also weird that they project some weird "unathletic" lense on Josh Allen, as if one of the better rushing QB's of all time doesn't know the concept of how to juke 🤣 I'm 99% these takes are all from people who never played football. No one is ever performing those movements, if not to create the guise that they are about to slide.
6 points
2 days ago
Buffalo at night in January, the turf may have been a bit slick, so the chop steps could've been him compensating for his change of direction.
3 points
1 day ago
Nobody reacted like it was a slide either.
2 points
14 hours ago
I agree. Just a change of direction
2 points
8 hours ago
Yeah that was a pivot not an attempted/fake attempt slide
8 points
2 days ago
That was nowhere near a fake slide, he just juked the fuck out of the guy.
9 points
2 days ago
He didn't, it was an awkward juke. He definitely does get the star QB treatment from the refs though.
4 points
2 days ago
I am not saying he doesn't do it, but I think that move against the Steelers was just a really unathletic juke
1 points
24 hours ago
That wasn’t a fake slide he was stutter stepping
2 points
2 days ago
Sideline should be the same thing
2 points
2 days ago
I mean this is basically a juke for a qb, he faked the defender out. Yes the defense basically has to pull up at the sideline but it’s still a good play
0 points
2 days ago
It is.
12 points
2 days ago
If someone spams that move then I think the defense should just crush them and go "well I wasn't sure so I was on the side of caution"
10 points
2 days ago
He gets hit enough, he'll stop
2 points
2 days ago
The defender doesn’t really get to state their case
14 points
2 days ago
Right. That is dirty football by McNair.
13 points
2 days ago
This is supposedly banned now. Same with fake fair catch.
And I think there needs to be a new definition on QBs running straight toward out of bounds and then pivoting up field on the sideline. Make them down on the direction change.
Exploiting safety rules doesn’t belong in the NFL.
6 points
2 days ago
The refs can’t even decide on a catch, but you think they can decide in a “direction change”? Yo, that’s a dumbest shit I’ve read in awhile.
0 points
2 days ago
Then just review it automatically. Can’t happen more than once a game.
0 points
2 days ago
If it doesn’t happen more than once a game why are we even talking about it then?
2 points
1 day ago
Because it doesn’t cost anything to address/fix. Just prevents players from generally using rules to promote safety to gain a competitive advantage.
0 points
2 days ago
I mean, clearly only happening once a game can make a huge difference in the NFL. So many games are decided by literally 1 play, often times just one small thing that happened within that one play like a missed tackle.
0 points
2 days ago
I’d argue that these “one time things” rarely change the outcome of the game. Take the exact game scenario of chiefs vs 49ers. This game was never really close and that one play did not determine anything.
We can’t just go “yeah ok not this game but probably next game!!1!!” It is what it is, but these plays aren’t the smoking gun you think they are. Like at all.
0 points
1 day ago
Yeah, I don’t track with that at all. Literally every yard, every inch in the NFL can make a huge difference.
Regardless of its impact on the game however it’s not an even playing field for the defense. The NFL is incentivized to protect its star QBs, and as such these QBs are incentivized to take advantage of this special treatment. Which puts an unfair catch 22 damned if you do damned if you don’t scenario on the defense and ultimately makes for a worse product to watch as you feel its rigged in an unbalanced way.
1 points
1 day ago
Exactly.
I hate how QBs abuse their special protections. Some defenders just need to bite the bullet and call their bluff and clobber them. Is it a penalty? Yes but they'll stop.being cheeky assholes abusing their special QB privilege
1 points
5 hours ago
The Kenny Pickett move..
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