I don’t see how a legal cut block is going to get people hurt (you can see the blocker going for your legs and can make some sort of defensive move to make sure your knee doesn’t get bent backwards) and the ones that are illegal (chop blocks and clipping) are the ones that I could see causing problems. If you took the cut block away, you’d take away one of the most prevalent ways a RB has to take out a pass rusher and that would increase the number of big hits on the league’s most valuable possessions (the QBs).

I go back to what some of the 80s Chargers lineman used to say about the cut block. If they weren’t allowed to do cut blocks, Dan Fouts wouldn’t be in the HOF.

The Broncos OL used to basically play with the limits of the chop block and clipping rules and that’s why it looked dirty. For chop blocks they would would disengage the defender a fraction of a second before the second blocker went for the legs. And for clipping they would dive at the back of their legs either at and angle that could barely be interpreted as “not from behind” or do it in the scrum of OL so the ref couldn’t clearly see where the block came from.

This thought about the stands in Raider games at the Q is outdated. Perhaps due to some of the policies employed by the organization, the incidents of arrests, ejections and other sorts of bad behavior are actually less at Raider games than any other Chargers home game. I heard this from the man himself, Jim Steeg, in his weekly radio interview where he showed concern about these stabby incidents keeping people from buying tickets to this weekend’s game.