Was James Harrison really not penalized for either hit?

[Don Corleone]

Thug life

I see a flag in the background. How was he not ejected from the game?

 

[BIGDen]

watching the game yesterday....my buddy turned to me and said...if we are going to get this many penalties...a few of them better be for us absolutely drilling Brett Favre like an oil well....even if is is late. The Saints beat him to canned tomatoes last year....with no flags. And it worked!!!!!

Instead we have Sensabaugh pull up and gently hug Favre like he was his grandfather (understandable mistake I guess) when he had a clear shot to take out a rib or 3. There's just a softness about our D at times that reminds me of Wade's belly. Sickening...

 

[NeonDeion21]

I see a flag in the background. How was he not ejected from the game?

I remember this play! The flag on the field was a against AZ which gave the Steelers another 10 yards of field position. Yeah, I was pretty upset at the time.

 

[NoLuv4Jerry]

I see a flag in the background. How was he not ejected from the game?

Hey, that is Steelers football. They put the opposing team and players on there heels. Then they slowly bleed the life out of them because refs are afraid of them and the opposition never knows what to expect from them. I mean these are grown men....who we all assume are not afraid of anything. But you are not even sure how to prepare for a team that mixes football with gang warfare!

 

[ThreeSportStar80]

Man he's an idiot... I'll be glad when he gets what's coming to him.

 

[hutch1254]

I don't care what they called or didn't call. Harrison is a pure dirtbag. Unnecessary on Massaquoi and Harrison knew what he was doing on the Cribbs hit. It was early in the game, everyone knew that Cribbs and the wildcat was going to be half the Browns offense that day. So knock him out and leave it all on Colt (who I thought did pretty well despite the situation). Cribbs had 2 to 3 dudes already on him and was going to the ground and here comes this POS head to head in the earhole. He knew what he was doing. He's pure garbage. And that crap he pulled in the Superbowl on that Arizona punt just blasting the blocker repeatedly to the ground is another example. You cannot tell me this guy isn't roid rage squared.

Can you tell I'm fired up?

 

[tomsanders921]

When was the last time we were flagged for a excessive hit? Our penalties are for PI, holding, and other stupid things. Ravens do the same thing, yea we might get the penalty but its because we have the stupid penalty rep. So the refs are on us a lot more than other teams and justifiably so.

At the end of last year i remember a couple games where our defensive backs were laying the wood. I know jenkins got called for an unnecessary roughness penalty that was questionable. If i recall, the guy fumbled it and we recovered, but the penalty wiped it out.... it might have been newman, not jenkins. can't really remember

 

[big dog cowboy]

Man he's an idiot... I'll be glad when he gets what's coming to him.

Been waiting for that to happen. Hopefully it will happen some day.

 

[JPM]

Columbo, in Titans game....

Didn't it happen to Davis against the Giants last year too?

 

[anava]

Didn't it happen to Davis against the Giants last year too?

Thats more of a OL being either lazy or just stupid after a play. I was actually asking when was someone on the D, come in come in with a nasty hit during the actual play not after.

 

[Don Corleone]

Didn't it happen to Davis against the Giants last year too?

At least Flozell showed some life against the Giants last year and leg whipped Justin Tuck, leaving him injured for a few games. In hindsight, that was the first nail in the Giants coffin last season.

 

[TheDude]

At least Flozell showed some life against the Giants last year and leg whipped Justin Tuck, leaving him injured for a few games. In hindsight, that was the first nail in the Giants coffin last season.

it's hard to condone, but we have no one like that and I think it shows. no team is scared of us. I think teams/players are actually scred to play Pitt, Balt, jets. That is a huge advantage.

It's similar ot the 90s boys, peaople were beat when they walked on the field. Woodson and early RW31 are the only ones that made recievers think.

No one "prepares for War" vs Dallas. Just play conservative and take calculated shots down the field. Offensively, we don;t run it down their throat.

I wish we had 1 R lexis, harrison, Polamalu, etc. It demoralizes the opposition and 9-10 times these players can take more risks because they know they won their battle

 

[ConstantReboot]

Why wouldnt you want a player like that? I bet WR heads are on a swivel when going across the middle of Pittsburgh's D. The middle of our D is usually wide open.

Won't matter. If he is here in Dallas and does what he does, he will be flagged in no time.

The refs control how you play the game. Its up to them to decide how rough and mean you can be to the opponent.

 

[ConstantReboot]

When was the last time we were flagged for a excessive hit? Our penalties are for PI, holding, and other stupid things. Ravens do the same thing, yea we might get the penalty but its because we have the stupid penalty rep. So the refs are on us a lot more than other teams and justifiably so.

We have gotten called for facemasks, roughing the passer, personal fouls, running out of bounds, holdings, clipping, etc. We aren't a dirty team so we don't do excessive hits. Yet our opponents never get called for any of those.

One of our roughing the passer was on Ratcliff for holding onto Mcnabbs legs. The league fined Ratcliff 5k. They said he was undercutting Mcnabb which was a dirty deed.

Now when the other opponents knock Romo in the head they are never called.

Why is that?

 

[SilverStarCowboy]

I think that's the way football is supposed to be played. That's the way we've all been taught to play it. This is a collision sport and that's why we watch it.

The way of Football we all know is being changed by people who have never played the game. The funniest part is that these front office people want the game to change rightnow in the middle of a season after being played a different way for literally Generations upon Generations.


Bottomline: It's not the Football we all once knew, they should change the name.

 

[texbumthelife]

I think that's the way football is supposed to be played. That's the way we've all been taught to play it. This is a collision sport and that's why we watch it.

The way of Football we all know is being changed by people who have never played the game. The funniest part is that these front office people want the game to change rightnow in the middle of a season after being played a different way for literally Generations upon Generations.


Bottomline: It's not the Football we all once knew, they should change the name.

Really? Because I have never, at any level, heard a coach say, "leave your feet and shoot for the head when tackling." After watching Harrison through the years, it is clear this is technique for him.

 

[SilverStarCowboy]

Really? Because I have never, at any level, heard a coach say, "leave your feet and shoot for the head when tackling." After watching Harrison through the years, it is clear this is technique for him.

Really...this is the NFC East and you've watched Players on both sides of the sidelines do that forever, these guys are pushing it to the limit and going over board. That's great motivation and Coaching in my experienced view of watching NFC East Football for over 30 years.

When the league says there will be suspensions for devestating hits, what does "devestating hit" mean? There should be a clear definition, you can't just say devestating hits.

 

[juck]

Charles Haley was just as Dirty. Ray Lewis is too. Great defenses have thug types.

 

[NeonDeion21]

Quick Update: NFL Offices say they "Missed the Harrison-Massaqoui call." But no fine or suspension has been issued yet. In other news, Darnell Dockett was fined $5,000 for not having his socks pulled up high enough this week.

 

[YosemiteSam]

Thug life

I would be in prison after that. I would have grabbed his facemask and proceeded to rip his head completely off.