Just last week, the Jets were flagged for interfering with an official...no fine issued, despite their history with sideline interference...
Tomlin neither interfered with the official nor the player...but, he's popped for $100K and the dangling threat of a draft pick?
Not capricious? Not arbitrary?
^^^^^^ this folks. Why are some out there in sports land so blind that their own minds fool their own eyes.
How could have it been on purpose? It appears to me that Tomlin did not move UNTIL the play was upon him. WHAT, does he have super powers or ESP that the play would happen to be run back that far, or to that side of the field? I don't buy it.
Of course, he shouldn't of been there. But I don't see him move AT ALL until the play is there. I can see it intentional if he were moving as the play developed.
It depends how quickly you need to move and whether you have time to think things over or are reacting instinctly (as if surprised). Jones was gonna be tackled by Cortez whether Tomlin was there or not. Jones veering away from Tomlin would only make the tackle more difficult as Cortez would have to adjust to his target changing directions.
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