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Illinois Fighting Illini (you'll see)

Receiver catches the football with one hand while the defender is continually holding his other arm all the way down the field, (and I didn't see a penalty flag either...:roll1:):


It was clearly OPI just as much as DPI. He was pushing the defender just as much as the defender was yanking on him.

Edit - My sarcasm with this post may not have been as clear as I had intended.
 
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It was clearly OPI just as much as DPI. He was pushing the defender just as much as the defender was yanking on him.

It looks to me like the defender had a hold the of receiver's jersey within 2 yards of the line of scrimmage and continually held on all the way down the field. I don't see OPI at all. How do you push a defender (i.e. backwards) when you are running full speed (i.e. foreword) down the field with just a straight arm? It looks to me like the receiver just extended his arm in a "stiff-arm" technique to try and keep the defender away from his body. I still say it should be DPI.
 
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It looks to me like the defender had a hold the of receiver's jersey within 2 yards of the line of scrimmage and continually held on all the way down the field. I don't see OPI at all. How do you push a defender (i.e. backwards) when you are running full speed (i.e. foreword) down the field with just a straight arm? It looks to me like the receiver just extended his arm in a "stiff-arm" technique to try and keep the defender away from his body. I still say it should be DPI.
Sorry - I was being sarcastic and it probably failed to properly show through text.
 
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