Lowering your head while tackling is what made it targeting. No mattering what you say to defend it, thats what the rules say.
Epic meltdown, guy. Your salty tears are fucking funny. Even to those of us who have no skin in the game.
I won't disagree with most of this, except about Young. He played a hell of a game. He was constantly in the backfield, and he clearly altered a ton of Clemson's plays.
The Miami game featured a play that - in two ways, both in a horribly missed holding call and a catch that was ruled incomplete - basically everyone agreed screwed OSU out of the chance to kill the clock in regulation and win 17-14.
While I agree he's done a good job, one would also have to note that it isn't like he had to deal with a trainwreck or anything close to that. The cupboard wasn't bare by any means.
Why does one have to note that? Tons of coaches have taken over talented teams and done significantly less than Day did. He's the reason we have Justin Fields, and without him we likely aren't even winning the B1G East, let along all but punching a ticket to the National Title game. He also corrected a lot of Urban's mistakes (mainly, the defensive coaching staff) to take a mistake-laden team from 2018 and turning them into the team we saw this year.
2 steps is a football move. Goes back to what if he was in EZ? That's a TD. No debate.
The problem was he was treated the same exact way that the OU player was treated, even though one was clearly targeting and an attempt to hurt the other player while the other was a bang-bang play with no intent to harm that wound up incidentally being helmet to helmet, and on the QB no less. If Wade made that exact same hit on Etienne, there's no penalty at all. Lawrence should get an Emmy for his acting job, because without it, it probably doesn't get called either.
