[Ditto]

If there is a blocker in front of a runner, and you go down in front of the blocker...you are going to get flagged. That would happen EVEN IF you don't contact the blocker...as you block the blocker from his advantage...and you can't do that.

Are you sure that's the rule? I don't think Hasselbeck even touched the blocker. He made a clean tackle.

[discostu]

That's the rule. The Steelers got nailed for it twice in the regular season on INT returns. While I think the way they're applying the rule stinks there would have been a large hue and cry from Steeler nation if they hadn't made the call in the SB given that the Steelers were so familiar with the penalized side of that rule already. As soon as you go low on a blocker, even if you're really trying to go low on a ball carrier and the blocker is just in the way, even if the blocker avoids being hit, it's a foul.