October 30, 2017 · 10:21 AM

Georgia Tech’s gonna Georgia Tech.

Check out the blocking on Clemson’s #90 in the middle of the line.

They’ll do it as long as the refs let ’em.

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27 responses to “Georgia Tech’s gonna Georgia Tech.”

  1. eethomaswfnc
    October 30, 2017 at 10:25 AM

    I guarantee you Kirby will be telling the officials to look for it. The cut block is cheap but legal (although it shouldn’t be). The chop is dirty and unacceptable.

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  2. tbia
    October 30, 2017 at 10:27 AM

    But but but its all cut blocks, not chop blocks. I am a tad shocked the ACC refs didn’t protect their darling Clemson

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  3. Thorn Dawg
    October 30, 2017 at 10:46 AM

    If the powers at be really care about players safety, the cut/chop block needs to be banned, and treated like a targeting penalty. It’s downright dirty.

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    • Macallanlover
      October 30, 2017 at 12:30 PM

      True, get back to me when you change that rule and I might think you are serious about player safety. This is an easier call than targeting, and every bit as likely to ruin a player’s career. Unlike the targeting, it is always a deliberate, premeditated hit.

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    • Dolly Llama
      October 30, 2017 at 1:20 PM

      Is there statistics/data to support changing the rule? Whenever it’s come up publicly, I’ve always heard Paul Johnson say that he knows of no evidence that cut blocks lead to any more injuries than any other kind of blocking, but I have no reason to take that shithead’s word on anything. If they outlawed it, he’d probably retire.

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      • dubyadee
        October 30, 2017 at 1:48 PM

        “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
        ― Upton Sinclair

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  4. Reverend Whitewall
    October 30, 2017 at 10:52 AM

    The Clemson D-Line got their revenge tho. I haven’t seen Tech’s OL (and by extension, the QB) get mauled like that in a long time. It was like Varsity vs JV all game long.

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  5. Got Cowdog
    October 30, 2017 at 11:03 AM

    I hope we hang sixty on the dirty bastards. My concern is we lose a player due to injury doing it. I hope Kirby gets knee deep in an official if he sees it, and he will.

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  6. paul
    October 30, 2017 at 11:22 AM

    With all the supposed emphasis on “safety” in recent years it does seem odd that we haven’t heard a single peep about banning cut blocking. It needs to be outlawed.

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    • The Truth
      October 30, 2017 at 11:37 AM

      If the emphasis was legs instead of heads we would have heard, and it would be outlawed. I guess it’s ok to limp the rest of your life as long as you’re not brain damaged.

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  7. Go Dawgs!
    October 30, 2017 at 11:47 AM

    How an ACC officiating crew can miss a single chop block by Tech is beyond me. When that offense plays, officials need to be watching for it like hawks because the cut block and its frequent companion, the illegal chop block, is the cornerstone of their offense.

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  8. PTC DAWG
    October 30, 2017 at 12:19 PM

    Stay classy Tech…

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  9. Uglydawg
    October 30, 2017 at 1:52 PM

    That cut wasn’t even necessary..and all down the left side of the defensive line it looks like one continuous chop house to me.
    How the refs let this go, I don’t know. Even if it wasn’t called as an illegal block it is “unsportsmanlike conduct”…same as stomping on someone’s hand on purpose or twisting their nuts in the pile…taking a shot at injuring someones body just because they’re on the other team..classless and dirty.

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  10. wewoof
    October 30, 2017 at 1:53 PM

    the way they get away with it is the tackle blocks the line judge’s vision of what they (the guards) are doing. that’s my theory .

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  11. WarD Eagle
    October 30, 2017 at 2:03 PM

    Unintentional chop. I like the defensive alignment that caused it.

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  12. Rocketdawg
    October 30, 2017 at 2:22 PM

    I hate those cheating bastards for exactly that reason. That block should be outlawed.

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    • Fetch
      October 30, 2017 at 2:38 PM

      “But, but, but our offense won’t work unless your defensive linemen are afraid on every play their career might be ended by a cut.” -Paul Johnson, probably

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  13. jabo052
    October 30, 2017 at 9:31 PM

    There are multiple missed chop blocks every time they play because every play is already borderline chop blocking.

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