Searching the qb or any player out and blocking them high is a dirty play if you're targeting them and they have no bearing on the play. If you don't think there are gray areas that players take advantage of to hurt players, I don't know what to say. Anyone who played more than a bit of football should know that.
I completely disagree.
When I was a kid, playing pop warner, the first thing we were taught is to block the guy who committed the turnover first.
If the guy that fumbles is the RB, then he is going to get hit. If the guy that throws the pick is the QB, then he is going to hit.
Never, in my entire life of playing football up until college, were we ever taught to block anybody at half speed.
I've literally played against girls in high school. And I went as hard at them as I did anyone else. If they are trying to tackle my teammate to prevent him from scoring, then they are going to hit, and they are going to hit as hard as I can possibly hit them.
This is football. This is how it's always been. This is what you sign up for when you put on the pads, and especially when you are playing professionally and your job is on the line every single play.
I don't care if you're Kurt Warner or Mother Theresa, if you get on that football field you will get the shit knocked out of you and nobody is going to take it easy on you just because you're a quarterback or a woman or a pussy like some of you.
You guys were obviously taught different and played football a different way than I did. There were no friends on the football fields that I played on. We were out to knock the shit out of every single person on the opposing team. Never cheap or dirty, if that dude's head isn't on a swivel and he doesn't see me then that sucks for him but it's not my job to let him know I'm coming to wreck his shit.
That's all I have to say about this. You can call these guys cheap or dirty, I call them football players. If the refs don't throw a flag, it is legal and within the rules, and that is all that matters to me.