shoulders and arms and they hit a few inches below the neck so they don’t consider it “head and neck area”. You are trying to avoid the toes of hits that are dangerously. I gate penalizing a hit that has his head up, doesn’t thrust, is doing a form tackle with his arms, simply because the defender turns good head host to the right place so the defender hits him with the facemask.

You are trying to regulate the intent and how the defender makes the tackle, not necessarily the result. That’s why I’m ok that it wasn’t called