(08-22-2018, 12:49 AM)Nashville.Dave Wrote:

(08-22-2018, 12:17 AM)TurndownforWatt Wrote: Those weren't chop blocks.. Chop blocks have always been illegal. They were cut blocks. As in out in front and above the knees. It was the system Alex Gibbs created at Denver and brought to Houston. Of coarse rules change, but a lot of teams ran it, they just didn't have the Guru coaching it. It's still used today, they just have to block differently when implementing it.

Chop, cut, either way its taking out someones knees. Them dirty texans. Haha

No it's not, Chop blocks have been illegal, they didn't have to implement a rule change there, because they were already illegal.

Quote:[font=Capita, Georgia,] Fat Camp: The differencebetween a cut block and a chop block

Ted Bartlett Nov 24, 2012 7:50 PM

[font=Capita, Georgia,]I read the USA Today article that Doug linked today, which amounted to an interpretation of a Peter King tweet.  Only KSK should be interpreting PK, because this reporter follows him down the path of wrong.


[/font]They mention "legal chop blocks," but there are no such things in the NFL, nor have there been any in quite a few years.  The problem is apparently confusion about what "chop block" means.
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Allow me to explain.

A chop block is when a blocker is engaged with a defender up high, and a second offensive player goes low on the same defender.  There must be two blockers on one defender, and one must go high, and the other low, for it to be a chop block.  That's a 15-yard penalty on the offense.

I suspect what these guys mean by "legal chop block" is a cut block.  The cut block is a legal play in which the blocker aims for a defender's thigh, in order to get him on the ground.  Every team does it, but it's most common in zone schemes, where the backside blockers are trying to open up cutback lanes for running backs.  (Broncos fans are well-steeped in this.)

Another important application for cut blocking is the short passing game, particularly screens and the three-step game.  When you cut a defensive lineman in pass protection, he drops his hands to protect himself, which opens up throwing lanes from the QB's shallow set.

On a screen, linemen are usually out in space on LBs and DBs, and cutting them is tactically superior to trying to dance with them, unless you're Ryan Clady.

[font=Capita, Georgia,]There's nothing wrong with a correctly executed cut block, regardless of what defensive guys will tell you.  They don't like getting blocked, and they bellyache about successful tactics.
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http://www.itsalloverfatman.com/broncos/...chop-block

Houston didn't injury lineman at any higher rate, defenders just don't like being cut. BTW cut blocks are still legal when the DLineman isn't engaged with another blocker and offensive lines everywhere still use cut blocks. It's a industry wide practice in a copy cat league.

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