I actually agree with Rex Ryan. Sliding seems to expose yourself to harm way more than alternatives.

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Dec 2, 2024
9:39:11am

P-Boy Squad All-American

I actually agree with Rex Ryan. Sliding seems to expose yourself to harm way more than alternatives.

I get that sliding is supposed to prevent the defender from having physical contact, but often these QB's wait until the last second to slide and then get hammered. It seems that getting hit normally where you can brace for the hit, instead of being in a position of vulnerability would be the better option.

Rex Ryan: "I am so sick and tired of seeing people teach, 'Hey, slide. When you're running out here, you slide.' To hell you do. Not when you're going full speed down the field and the defender's coming full speed at you... they should be taught to dive at the ankles of the… pic.twitter.com/JUiJI3k7mF
— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) December 2, 2024

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I actually agree with Rex Ryan. Sliding seems to expose yourself to harm way more than alternatives.

P-Boy Squad All-American

9:39am

I hate the slide rules. This game happens so fast. As a defender, you now have

mudpupper

9:42am

And then you have guys like Mahomes who either pretends to slide or run out of bounds and then keeps going

P-Boy Squad

9:43am

Yep, the offense has a serious advantage here and the defender has to play it

mudpupper

9:44am

Since they want to protect the QBs, just make it touch only for QB…

ochobeeguy

9:56am

Basically what I said yesterday. Either slide way earlier, or know that you're

byubyu

9:44am

If you're going to slide it has to be earlier.

JuicyJam

9:47am

And give them a bear horn and before they slide they have to fire that baby off/

reagan21

9:48am

The late hit penalty on sliding QB's needs to be softened a lot so that QB's only get the penalty if they slide

darkcoug

9:57am

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