A'Shawn Robinson: "They ain't nothin' special"

[muck4doo]

Ashawn, Deshawn, Leshawn, Elshawn....

 

[LocimusPrime]

He shouldn't be allowed to talk

 

[AsthmaField]

Blah-blah-blah. Losers gonna lose.

No telling what Elliott would have done to those guys had he not been taken out for the entire 4th quarter.

They're lucky the Dallas defense was unsettled at first or it would have been an even more epic beatdown.

 

[iceberg]

I see Caldwell isn't a fan of wrestling, UFC, or even little kids tussling with each other.

Dude picked Elliott completely off his feet, turned Elliott's body basically perpendicular to the ground, and brought Elliott down hard on his side. What does Caldwell call that? A full body massage? Incredible.

i always thought it was the rule - you can't leave your feet to "spear" someone in a tackle and you can't pick them up and slam them down. pretty simple.

 

[ChronicCowboy]

Another shining example of higher education.

 

[CalPolyTechnique]

i always thought it was the rule - you can't leave your feet to "spear" someone in a tackle and you can't pick them up and slam them down. pretty simple.

He got flagged, so apparently you can't.

 

[Biggems]

In the third quarter, Robinson was flagged for unnecessary roughness when he picked Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott up on a run up the middle and body-slammed him to the turf.

“He was being dirty all game,” Elliott said of Robinson. “I think he was a little salty from that Sugar Bowl win we got against him in New Orleans two years ago. It's whatever. Let him do what he wants to do.”

Elliott’s Ohio State Buckeyes beat Robinson’s Alabama Crimson Tide, 42-35, in the Sugar Bowl in 2015 to advance to the national title game, which Ohio State won as well. Elliott had 230 yards and two touchdowns in the win over Robinson and Alabama, and had 12 carries for 80 yards and two more touchdowns in their first NFL match-up.

Robinson downplayed the Cowboys’ second-half dominance, though.

“They’re alright,” Robinson said after the game. “They did some alright stuff that worked. Nothing special. They ain’t nothing special.”


Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/sports...rner-blog/article123063389.html#storylink=cpy

A double negative turns his statement into a positive. All college educated people should know this. So thank you for calling us very special Mr robinson.

 

[Risen Star]

Blah-blah-blah. Losers gonna lose.

No telling what Elliott would have done to those guys had he not been taken out for the entire 4th quarter.

They're lucky the Dallas defense was unsettled at first or it would have been an even more epic beatdown.

Well. Zeke basically did nothing other than the big run. That's been glossed over with the win. We were ineffective running the ball with Zeke because the Lions completely sold out on the run.

So teams can take that away from us if they want to. At least some can.

 

[Cebrin]

 

[Boyzmamacita]

I didn't see it that way, and I thought the penalty was bogus. He stopped Elliott's progress by picking him off his feet, which is perfect form, but he did not slam or drive Zeke to the turf. The tackler hit the turf first and Zeke was still in the air, coming down softly. As for Zeke's point that he played dirty throughout the game, I trust him on that, but he didn't get slammed down on that tackle...there really wasn't much to it.

He tried to slam him down. Just because he's too uncoordinated to carry out his dirty plan doesn't make it OK. He got flagged for intent. If one of our players does it, they will get flagged for it too and rightfully so.

 

[Boyzmamacita]

He and Hall got into it plenty of times back in 2012 during the RGIII run. And let's face it, he and Norman recently have been throwing shade (This started last year)

They are competitive people. Never understand why people get this worked up over trash talking. There certainly are lines drawn, and I think Robinson crossed it a bit with that body slam. But he's a future bright spot on the Lions D, very competitive player. Having a history with two players and getting your butt whooped in an important game will have any player frustrated.

Don't defend A'hole, I mean A'Shawn. He did a dumb thing in the game and said a dumb thing afterwards. Period. Has nothing to do with Dez. The guy showed his *** and it's not even a pretty one.

 

[Boyzmamacita]

Well. Zeke basically did nothing other than the big run. That's been glossed over with the win. We were ineffective running the ball with Zeke because the Lions completely sold out on the run.

So teams can take that away from us if they want to. At least some can.

Several teams have lived by this but it opens up other things for us and if we keep feeding him Zeke will break a long one. Ooh I wish we had kept him in longer, but I understand why we took him out.

 

[Zimmy Lives]

Stupid is as stupid is.

 

[AsthmaField]

Well. Zeke basically did nothing other than the big run. That's been glossed over with the win. We were ineffective running the ball with Zeke because the Lions completely sold out on the run.

So teams can take that away from us if they want to. At least some can.

Yeah, I was more referring to the fact that Dallas was killing them with the pass by the 4th quarter and in order to stop the bleeding they had to do something different, which would have likely given Elliott a little more room to run. Plus, the 4th quarter is when Zeke really starts to wear on a defense and holes begin to pop open.

But you are right they did sell out to stop the run and effectively slowed Ezekiel down... but it really hurt them in the passing game.

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

Both ESPN Announcers, Gruden and McDonough, made a bunch of idiotic comments after the penalty saying it wasn't a foul. One of them said "What is supposed to do, hold him up in the air?"

No, moron, he is supposed to tackle him without lifting him up in the air in the first place.

I believe that it was actually McDonough. Gruden didn't really say much, other then to explain why it was a penalty.

Hey, I don't like those penalties either. I think the sport was meant to be physical and when you take that away from the game, you lessen it. However, it doesn't really matter what I think because, as a society, we have started going down a path that subjugates anybody who embraces this type of behavior, even in sport. It's really interesting because deep down, violence is kind of ingrained into our species. We fight against our own humanity in a way. Be that as it may, society and it's views go against all of this. Introduce frivolous lawsuits into things and this is the result I suppose.

 

[Outlaw Heroes]

Don't defend A'hole, I mean A'Shawn. He did a dumb thing in the game and said a dumb thing afterwards. Period. Has nothing to do with Dez. The guy showed his *** and it's not even a pretty one.

Thanks for the chuckle.

[Note to self: don't get on Mamacita's bad side. Feisty.]

 

[Boyzmamacita]

The irony is that Robinson stopped Zeke from pursuing the record in a sense. We took Zeke out after the slam. Who knows how many yards he would've ended up with? So that clown may have derailed something big, but the Cowboys have their eyes on a much bigger prize.

 

[jamesdojr]

Lol.. it was 42 to 21... and we left points on the field.

In the third quarter, Robinson was flagged for unnecessary roughness when he picked Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott up on a run up the middle and body-slammed him to the turf.

“He was being dirty all game,” Elliott said of Robinson. “I think he was a little salty from that Sugar Bowl win we got against him in New Orleans two years ago. It's whatever. Let him do what he wants to do.”

Elliott’s Ohio State Buckeyes beat Robinson’s Alabama Crimson Tide, 42-35, in the Sugar Bowl in 2015 to advance to the national title game, which Ohio State won as well. Elliott had 230 yards and two touchdowns in the win over Robinson and Alabama, and had 12 carries for 80 yards and two more touchdowns in their first NFL match-up.

Robinson downplayed the Cowboys’ second-half dominance, though.

“They’re alright,” Robinson said after the game. “They did some alright stuff that worked. Nothing special. They ain’t nothing special.”


Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/sports...rner-blog/article123063389.html#storylink=cpy

 

[Kaiser]

I believe that it was actually McDonough. Gruden didn't really say much, other then to explain why it was a penalty.

Hey, I don't like those penalties either. I think the sport was meant to be physical and when you take that away from the game, you lessen it. However, it doesn't really matter what I think because, as a society, we have started going down a path that subjugates anybody who embraces this type of behavior, even in sport. It's really interesting because deep down, violence is kind of ingrained into our species. We fight against our own humanity in a way. Be that as it may, society and it's views go against all of this. Introduce frivolous lawsuits into things and this is the result I suppose.

But the penalty for Unnecessary Roughness has been around forever. No one objects to hard hits, I jumped out of my chair like everyone else when Chris Jones planted the Lions PR.

What Robinson did was to stop Zeke's progress, then pick him up into the air and body slam him. That isn't a tackle, its just an attempt to hurt an opposing player. That would have been called a penalty if Bob Lilly did it back in the day, its not part of the game.

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

But the penalty for Unnecessary Roughness has been around forever. No one objects to hard hits, I jumped out of my chair like everyone else when Chris Jones planted the Lions PR.

What Robinson did was to stop Zeke's progress, then pick him up into the air and body slam him. That isn't a tackle, its just an attempt to hurt an opposing player. That would have been called a penalty if Bob Lilly did it back in the day, its not part of the game.

He did nothing more then I would try to do when I was a kid. It is what it is.