Head-to-Head Hits & New Rule Discussion
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Gipper wrote:
I actually think it is the other way around, primarily because the Cribbs hit was pure helmet on helmet. If that one is not illegal, then apparently there is some confusion about the rule. When is pure helmet to helmet legal and when is it not?
By your statements above then you should probably argue that TJ Ward's hit against Cincy should not have been called or fined. Fair to say?
Cribbs was a ballcarrier, not a defenseless receiver. Harrison was coming across the field and earholed him. That was just a hard football play. Hillis and Mangini both said it was a clean hit. So did Lawrence Vickers, who said to Harrison "Hey, man, that’s football, that happens."
As far as TJ Ward, his hit was borderline. (the Shipley hit) By rule Ward's hit on Mendenhall isn't a penalty because like Cribbs he was a ballcarrier. Ward put the crown of his helmet straight into Mendenhall's facemask instead of trying to tackle him. I don't expect a fine or flag for that, but sure it is borderline dirty, borderline hard hit.
Ward's hit on Shipley, he seemed to intentionally rise up to hit him in the head with a shoulder where he could have kept his pad level and blasted him in the chest. That is the only problem I have there. I think a penalty was warranted, not a fine. It wasn't a scenario where both were going full speed and they hit head to head, Ward was stationary and time to level him up, and went upwards to make the hit. Now, if you go back and look at the hit Ryan Clark put on Willis McGahee, Clark just didn't look to see what he was hitting. He ducked his head and lowered his shoulder, McGahee lowered his pads to brace for the hits and both players got rocked, with McGahee taking the worst of the blow.
All I can say is, I like hard hitting football. It is a collision sport played at a high rate of speed and big hits and injuries are bound to happen. As long as a player isn't intentionally going high there should not be a penalty or fine. When you make a big hit you should lead with your shoulders, but the head just so happens to be connected to the shoulders, so naturally heads are going to bang together. I like Hines Ward's solution. If you want to eliminate people hitting with helmets go back to leather helmets with no facemasks.
Gipper wrote:
Cribbs was a ballcarrier, not a defenseless receiver. Harrison was coming across the field and earholed him.
Yes, that is true, though I was not aware that if you are considered a running back that it makes any difference. Are you saying under the rules it does?
Then riddle me this: If a wide receiver has caught a ball, and is running with it down the field and gets 5-10 yard and then is "earholed" by helmet to helmet contact, is that also legal because he was not in the process of catching the ball?
Is the act of catching the ball the significant criteria?
And what if it is a QB scrambling? Josh Cribbs WAS playing QB on that play, though he was running it in the Wilddawg formation. Would it have made a difference if it was Colt McCoy or Ben AngrySheepDog running it on a designed rollout?
Would an "earholing" of them been legitimate under the same circumstances?
That was just a hard football play. Hillis and Mangini both said it was a clean hit. So did Lawrence Vickers, who said to Harrison "Hey, man, that’s football, that happens."
As far as TJ Ward, his hit was borderline. (the Shipley hit) By rule Ward's hit on Mendenhall isn't a penalty because like Cribbs he was a ballcarrier. Ward put the crown of his helmet straight into Mendenhall's facemask instead of trying to tackle him. I don't expect a fine or flag for that, but sure it is borderline dirty, borderline hard hit.
Ward's hit on Shipley, he seemed to intentionally rise up to hit him in the head with a shoulder where he could have kept his pad level and blasted him in the chest. That is the only problem I have there. I think a penalty was warranted, not a fine.
By that then I think Harrison's hit on MoMass was pretty much the same. He had to "Rise Up" to hit MoMass in the head.
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If you Steeler fans want to argue "Cribbs was a running back" and exonerate Harrison. OK But to you trolls my DVR fame by frame of the Massaquoi massacre CLEARLY shows Harrison led with his head, it was deliberate, and he's gonna get fined.
Uh, excuse me, but on that play Cribbs was playing Quarterback, not Running back.
Besides, perhaps I am confused by this rule....why does it make a damn bit of difference if you are a RB, QB, WR, TE or a defender returning an interception. Aren't the helmet to helmet hits illegal on everyone?
Uh, excuse me, but on that play Cribbs was playing Quarterback, not Running back.
Besides, perhaps I am confused by this rule....why does it make a damn bit of difference if you are a RB, QB, WR, TE or a defender returning an interception. Aren't the helmet to helmet hits illegal on everyone
?no he was playing single wing Tail back.............not Quarterback.....single wing Tailback is modern day running back....(er for all those who think football was invented yesterday, the Tailback in the Single Wing is the WildDawg back now renamed)....you are wrong on this one
furthermore, all the ball carriet has to do is lower his helmet to get a personal foul in the case you presented............
just lower and spear the defender and you get an additional fifteen......I hope someone has thought beyond this.......but in the NFL maybe that is too hard category
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That's my point, donger......they dont like each other.
Holy sh*t SuperSteelers, my wife's entire family is from New Lex. I just noticed your hometown in your posts.
More than likely they know you or your family.
What happened to you? That is serious Browns country...
I'm the opposite. My dad worked for Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel for 30 years. Yep, cases of Iron Shitty in the fridge with Steelers all over it. Our HS football team used to go to Steeler camp for a visit each year.
Didn't work on me though! Go Browns!
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Maybe he took a page out of habitual ball grabber, Shawn Smith's playbook.
PITTSBURGH (AP)—Steelers linebacker James Harrison(notes) states his objective matter-of-factly: He’s out to hurt any opposing player who roams into his vicinity.
If he sees players down on the turf—as he did Sunday when he sidelined Browns wide receivers Joshua Cribbs(notes) and Mohamed Massaquoi(notes) with punishing hits only minutes apart during the second quarter—he feels as if he’s done his job.
Harrison said he doesn’t want to put any player out of a game or jeopardize his career. The former AP Defensive Player of the Year also realizes it can be difficult to draw a line between merely hurting a player and badly injuring him as plays take place at full speed and hits are delivered with little time to consider the consequences.
Luck is Tim Couch. Big, Dumb Goofy, slow thinking QB - Ghoolie, 2-28-12 -
One of the few that plays the game the way it was intended.....Turkey Joness would be ashamed of all this crying
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Maybe he took a page out of habitual ball grabber, Shawn Smith's playbook.
PITTSBURGH (AP)—Steelers linebacker James Harrison(notes) states his objective matter-of-factly: He’s out to hurt any opposing player who roams into his vicinity.
If he sees players down on the turf—as he did Sunday when he sidelined Browns wide receivers Joshua Cribbs(notes) and Mohamed Massaquoi(notes) with punishing hits only minutes apart during the second quarter—he feels as if he’s done his job.
Harrison said he doesn’t want to put any player out of a game or jeopardize his career. The former AP Defensive Player of the Year also realizes it can be difficult to draw a line between merely hurting a player and badly injuring him as plays take place at full speed and hits are delivered with little time to consider the consequences.
Maybe he took a page out of habitual ball grabber, Shawn Smith's playbook.
PITTSBURGH (AP)—Steelers linebacker James Harrison(notes) states his objective matter-of-factly: He's out to hurt any opposing player who roams into his vicinity.
If he sees players down on the turf—as he did Sunday when he sidelined Browns wide receivers Joshua Cribbs(notes) and Mohamed Massaquoi(notes) with punishing hits only minutes apart during the second quarter—he feels as if he's done his job.
Harrison said he doesn't want to put any player out of a game or jeopardize his career. The former AP Defensive Player of the Year also realizes it can be difficult to draw a line between merely hurting a player and badly injuring him as plays take place at full speed and hits are delivered with little time to consider the consequences.
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Whining is so disgusting.........NICE WHINING POST.....if we had Harrison which we could have sans sewage.............you would be praising his intimidation.......meanwhile his hits are were not against upright people rather against head down ball toters..........sumtimes whining is stupid this time it is
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One of the few that plays the game the way it was intended.....Turkey Joness would be ashamed of all this crying
One of the few that plays the game the way it was intended.....Turkey Joness would be ashamed of all this crying
I won't bitch about the Cribbs hit because I figure the league will decide whether it was legal. I can see the debatability of that play. The Massaquoi hit was the definition of illegal. That said, I think many players go all out and make plays. They may fall on the illegal side of things without that necessarily being out of the intent to be outside the bounds of legal play.
James Harrison's comments suggest, however, that he is on the illegal side of that coin and wants to be there. In an age where the league is trying to protect players (including Harrison) it's particularly insensitive to beat your chest in the media with gorilla-like bravado. What's worse is that in his puny mind, he thinks that since Cribbs was unconscious ('asleep' in his words) that the hit was somehow "ok" or less severe.
Helloooo, MCFLY!!! When you lose consciousness after head trauma....it's not a good thing! Dr. Harrison! That's a Grade III concussion per the Colorado Guidelines and the AAN Guidelines (That's the worst kind). Josh Cribbs didn't decide to take a nap on the field and it's not alright.
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Formerly Stone said:
NICE HIT!We really don't care that you do roids and give head
At least you are consistent when speaking about the steelers and browns fans
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They hardly ever call a helmet to helmet penalty against Pissburgh. That ape wont even get fined.
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He really is a nice guy.
That was in retaliation to the Cardinals player diving at Harrison's knees. Keep hating though. Browns fans would kill for a player like Harrison. Right now their defense is as soft as they come.
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on espn's 'Around The Horn' they suggested players commiting these flagrant type of hits (even if not penalized) should be ejected from the game and automatically suspended from 2-4 games. they also called harrison a headhunter and that the league is looking for a way to weed out such miscreants while weighing the violence of the game vs. player safety.
SEE YA HARRISON, YOU BIG FLIPPIN' GOON!!!!
BTW: turkey jones would have suspended a year and fined out the ying yang if he did such a thing in today's nfl. and there would be no argument with that here.
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Maybe he took a page out of habitual ball grabber, Shawn Smith's playbook.
PITTSBURGH (AP)—Steelers linebacker James Harrison(notes) states his objective matter-of-factly: He’s out to hurt any opposing player who roams into his vicinity.
If he sees players down on the turf—as he did Sunday when he sidelined Browns wide receivers Joshua Cribbs(notes) and Mohamed Massaquoi(notes) with punishing hits only minutes apart during the second quarter—he feels as if he’s done his job.
Harrison said he doesn’t want to put any player out of a game or jeopardize his career. The former AP Defensive Player of the Year also realizes it can be difficult to draw a line between merely hurting a player and badly injuring him as plays take place at full speed and hits are delivered with little time to consider the consequences.
Maybe he took a page out of habitual ball grabber, Shawn Smith's playbook.
PITTSBURGH (AP)—Steelers linebacker James Harrison(notes) states his objective matter-of-factly: He's out to hurt any opposing player who roams into his vicinity.
If he sees players down on the turf—as he did Sunday when he sidelined Browns wide receivers Joshua Cribbs(notes) and Mohamed Massaquoi(notes) with punishing hits only minutes apart during the second quarter—he feels as if he's done his job.
Harrison said he doesn't want to put any player out of a game or jeopardize his career. The former AP Defensive Player of the Year also realizes it can be difficult to draw a line between merely hurting a player and badly injuring him as plays take place at full speed and hits are delivered with little time to consider the consequences.
We own the DAWG POUND.......punish on D.....and now we get this pussy posts about others are hitting too hard..........do we want a dawg pound or pussy pound........you cannot have it both ways.........lets take the pick
me I am for Offense wins Championships and silencing dawg pound pussies
IAM PRETTY SICK OF THE DAWG POUNDS OF DEFENSE PISSING THEIR PANTS THAT THE STEELERS HIT US TOO HARD
Offense Wins.......Franchise QB's are the key.............Defense keeps you in the game.........Go Buckeyes -
One of the few that plays the game the way it was intended.....Turkey Joness would be ashamed of all this crying
I won't bitch about the Cribbs hit because I figure the league will decide whether it was legal. I can see the debatability of that play. The Massaquoi hit was the definition of illegal. That said, I think many players go all out and make plays. They may fall on the illegal side of things without that necessarily being out of the intent to be outside the bounds of legal play.
James Harrison's comments suggest, however, that he is on the illegal side of that coin and wants to be there. In an age where the league is trying to protect players (including Harrison) it's particularly insensitive to beat your chest in the media with gorilla-like bravado. What's worse is that in his puny mind, he thinks that since Cribbs was unconscious ('asleep' in his words) that the hit was somehow "ok" or less severe.
Helloooo, MCFLY!!! When you lose consciousness after head trauma....it's not a good thing! Dr. Harrison! That's a Grade III concussion per the Colorado Guidelines and the AAN Guidelines (That's the worst kind). Josh Cribbs didn't decide to take a nap on the field and it's not alright.
I won't bitch about the Cribbs hit because I figure the league will decide whether it was legal. I can see the debatability of that play. The Massaquoi hit was the definition of illegal. That said, I think many players go all out and make plays. They may fall on the illegal side of things without that necessarily being out of the intent to be outside the bounds of legal play.
James Harrison's comments suggest, however, that he is on the illegal side of that coin and wants to be there. In an age where the league is trying to protect players (including Harrison) it's particularly insensitive to beat your chest in the media with gorilla-like bravado. What's worse is that in his puny mind, he thinks that since Cribbs was unconscious ('asleep' in his words) that the hit was somehow "ok" or less severe.
Helloooo, MCFLY!!! When you lose consciousness after head trauma....it's not a good thing! Dr. Harrison! That's a Grade III concussion per the Colorado Guidelines and the AAN Guidelines (That's the worst kind). Josh Cribbs didn't decide to take a nap on the field and it's not alright.
Harrison shouldn't say he wants to hurt ppl, especially in the media. I agree there. And the Massa hit was an unintentional head to head, however it was head to head and he should be fined because of the rule and only because of the rule. I dont think it was a cheap shot, just a ferocious hit by an all out player. These two teams are rivals and thats how rivals treat each other. I for one, wouldnt want it any other way, from either side.
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Maybe he took a page out of habitual ball grabber, Shawn Smith's playbook.
PITTSBURGH (AP)—Steelers linebacker James Harrison(notes) states his objective matter-of-factly: He's out to hurt any opposing player who roams into his vicinity.
If he sees players down on the turf—as he did Sunday when he sidelined Browns wide receivers Joshua Cribbs(notes) and Mohamed Massaquoi(notes) with punishing hits only minutes apart during the second quarter—he feels as if he's done his job.
Harrison said he doesn't want to put any player out of a game or jeopardize his career. The former AP Defensive Player of the Year also realizes it can be difficult to draw a line between merely hurting a player and badly injuring him as plays take place at full speed and hits are delivered with little time to consider the consequences.
We own the DAWG POUND.......punish on D.....and now we get this pussy posts about others are hitting too hard..........do we want a dawg pound or pussy pound........you cannot have it both ways.........lets take the pick
me I am for Offense wins Championships and silencing dawg pound pussies
IAM PRETTY SICK OF THE DAWG POUNDS OF DEFENSE PISSING THEIR PANTS THAT THE STEELERS HIT US TOO HARD
me I am for Offense wins Championships and silencing dawg pound pussies
YOU ALSO ROOT FOR THE STEELERS SO YOUR OPINION SHOULDN'T AND DOESN'T COUNT ON A BROWNS BOARD.
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That was in retaliation to the Cardinals player diving at Harrison's knees. Keep hating though. Browns fans would kill for a player like Harrison. Right now their defense is as soft as they come.
Your an idiot. I would NOT want a roid monkey like Harrison on my team.
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Right now their defense is as soft as they come.
ARE THEY AS SOFT AS YOU MOM'S SAGGY TITS?
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on espn's 'Around The Horn' they suggested players commiting these flagrant type of hits (even if not penalized) should be ejected from the game and automatically suspended from 2-4 games. they also called harrison a headhunter and that the league is looking for a way to weed out such miscreants while weighing the violence of the game vs. player safety.
SEE YA HARRISON, YOU BIG FLIPPIN' GOON!!!!
BTW: turkey jones would have suspended a year and fined out the ying yang if he did such a thing in today's nfl. and there would be no argument with that here.
on espn's 'Around The Horn' they suggested players commiting these flagrant type of hits (even if not penalized) should be ejected from the game and automatically suspended from 2-4 games. they also called harrison a headhunter and that the league is looking for a way to weed out such miscreants while weighing the violence of the game vs. player safety.
SEE YA HARRISON, YOU BIG FLIPPIN' GOON!!!!
BTW: turkey jones would have suspended a year and fined out the ying yang if he did such a thing in today's nfl. and there would be no argument with that here.
Harrison isnt going anywhere.....Around the horn is a bunch of bleeding hearts that should be made to wear dresses on that show. Turkey Jones should have gotten what he got, a 3000.00 fine and a 15 yd penalty, in todays NFL and yesterdays.
This game is going to suck in a few years if ppl keep crying.......its really going to suck. Might as well put flags on their hips.....
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me I am for Offense wins Championships and silencing dawg pound pussies
YOU ALSO ROOT FOR THE STEELERS SO YOUR OPINION SHOULDN'T AND DOESN'T COUNT ON A BROWNS BOARD.
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i'm not saying the game needs to change. they need to make sure no one gets killed/paralyzed or seriously injured. in every generation there have been goons that played the game, guys that were dirty players. well harrison just happens to be one of them and he plays for the steelers.
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