Kurt Gibson is amazing. but there are so many good players overlooked on ironside. for example, Jay Clark. he is an amazing all rounder that can play both D and O. he made a massive impact for ironside and doesnt get his shout outs enough.
I love Kurt but terrible spirit on the collision at 1:27:43. He clearly reads the full speed cut from White and hops directly in his path, leading with the shoulder. Not sure if it's to stop a cut he's not ready for or just to slow the pace down. Either way, not a good look
17:29 Dear cutters, I know you work your ass off to get into stacks and reset, but if you are unmarked that close to the end zone, just run to open space in the end zone. Curling it around just helps the defender.
Numerous times in this game, Higgins makes a deep cut into the endzone for a point. On some of those cuts, he gets wide open. On others, he has maybe a step on his defender. When he starts those cuts, how often do you think he knows that the disc is going to put up into the endzone for him? Or do you think he's making that hard deep cut just to provide an option and then plays the disc once he realizes that it's been thrown to him.
Bogus call at 14:48. Clean D, if there was contact (there wasn't), it was initiated by the O slowing down due to a fading throw. Total ripoff of a good D play by Ironside.
The contact occurred just before the jump as they were running; little shoulder bump in the back (which I think is mostly fair game). He then did everything he could not to touch Kittredge while in the air. It was physical going in and maybe not completely clean. Though, I do agree that it was good D and a dubious call.
I slowed this down to frame by frame and the quality is to blurry to see exactly when it leaves his hand, but it's about as close as you could possibly get
I root for Revolver, but I disagreed with the call. There was contact in the back before going up, but it wasn't out of the ordinary. While in the air there was no contact (which surprised me because usually there is some incidental contact.) Both Beau and Ferraru misread the flight path which went behind their backs and Beau fell down because of it. I thought it was an exceptionally clean play.
I don't understand why the observers issue blue cards instead of yellow ones for individual infractions. I thought they were functionally the same regarding the brick mark but two yellow cards is an ejection of that player who continues to play dirty
Yes especially the blue card on defender who hacked Gibson in endzone/sideline with no play on disc. Announcers said not bad enough for an ejection (true), but didn't mention the best option, yellow card/PMF.
A travel is a violation relating to the handler's pivot spot. One way is not maintaining your pivot (such as dragging that foot before releasing a throw). Another way is not going back to back to a side or end zone line if the disc is still in play (like if you catch the disc and run OB you have to go back to the sideline and ground-tap the disc). It is also a travel if you throw the disc after 3 steps without having established a pivot.
