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Message: [QUOTE="RedStickHusky, post: 5087364, member: 663"] Hamms30 has it right IMHO. Slide late with tacklers in motion and they go over you. No where else for them to go. Getting your head bounced between the turf and a 200+ guys hip is gonna hurt, but nobodies trying to drop a hip on a head. A good portion of the targeting calls we do see come from the runner changing his head level too late for the tackler to compensate. I don't think people are baiting (or flopping for) targeting calls, but I do think it gets called way too often. You also end up with runners thinking the refs are protecting them when they should be protecting themselves. [/QUOTE]