Harbaugh: Rules on hitting QBs are 'flawed and biased' (USA News)

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – San Francisco 49ers right tackle Anthony Davis isn't worried about opposing players attempting to hit quarterback Colin Kaepernick when he doesn't have the ball.

Truth be told, if the Green Bay Packers need to attempt that approach in Sunday's opener, Davis is just for it.

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"They have to stress over discovering the ball. Period," Davis told USA TODAY Sports on Friday.

"They've got a mess of other (bleep) to stress over than simply hitting him. They can hit him and we can take off for 60 yards. They can hit him. He'll get move down."

The issue turned into an argument after Packers linebacker Clay Matthews said in different meetings without much fanfare the arrangement is to test the NFL's manages on hitting read-choice quarterbacks by thumping around Kaepernick at whatever point they find the opportunity.

Matthews told ESPN Radio that the Packers started finalizing "this read-choice, gun, fake offense" on the first day of offseason practices – no amaze, given that Kaepernick ran for a QB record 181 yards and two scores as the 49ers won January's divisional playoff matchup 45-31.

"I suppose each one of the aforementioned yards checked," Davis said. "Nothing fake about that."

Calling the guidelines "defective and inclined," 49ers mentor Jim Harbaugh turned to emulate at his Friday media meeting to delineate his disappointment with the hazy area in the description he's gotten from the group about when hitting a quarterback completing a play fake might be hit.

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"When you begin utilizing statements like "obviously" – he "plainly" doesn't have the ball – then what does that truly mean?" Harbaugh said, then goes back and made an exaggerated indicating movement.

"I recently gave it off. I don't have the ball! Who's made history the ball?' Or put your hands up?"

Harbaugh acted that out, too, before including he accepts the quarterback ought to be "a quarterback until he leaves the pocket as a running risk" – giving insurance for players, for example Kaepernick from getting hit in the head or the knees, or getting this show on the road hit without the ball.

Senior member Blandino, the NFL's VP of directing, said in his week after week administering motion picture that the quarterback's carriage manages how he could be reached on perused alternative plays and officials have circumspection to make the judgment.

"Assuming that he's running with the football or showing a running carriage," Blandino said, "typical unnecessary-unpleasantness leads apply."

At the end of the day, a quarterback who appears as though he's running, regardless of the possibility that he's not, is to be treated like running backs, who aren't managed the same assurances of the higher-profile position.

"I suppose they're attempting to dispose of these sort of quarterbacks," Davis said. "For them to make a standard that is so hostile to choice read quarterbacks, its sort of like communicating something specific that they in the long run need to dispose of them."

Yet more groups are joining perused alternative components into their playbooks, due in expansive part to the prosperity of Kaepernick, the Washington Redskins' Robert Griffin III and the Seattle Seahawks' Russell Wilson last season.

As Harbaugh brought up, a play fake is a beguiling move. The better its completed, the all the more effectively an opposing player could possibly guarantee he accepted he was hitting a play