Curious Yet Obvious?

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Originally Posted by RobH4413

I thought the Sean Taylor sack was kind of a lame call too...

It's one thing if you hit him late, and its flagrant... another if the QB is avoiding a sack, and your get him the only way you can, at his knees.

Why not protect lineman more? Why not protect punt returners? Lets make some consistency with our ruling... We all understand that the QB is a very valuable position, but that's almost implying everyone else isn't worth protecting.
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On the other hand, It's gotta be damn hard to discriminate what's a low blow, and whats a legit hit in an instant....

Mabye there should be an ref devoted entirely to the QB position... just watching him, and his knees, and the pass rushers... to make a call like that. It happends almost every game at least once.

It comes down to the fact that the QB is the glamour position in the NFL. They are the big money guys, the faces of the franchises, and the last thing the NFL wants to see is a guy going down for the season like Palmer last year in the playoffs. Big time QBs = ratings, so the NFL tries to protect these guys at any cost.