~2017 NFL Thread~

[Honestbuckeye]

Please please do not that be what it looks like.   God speed Shazier.   

[ELA]

Love the announcers repeatedly saying this is bad for football...when they knew exactly what they were looking for in putting this game on Monday Night

[Honestbuckeye]

Was the hit on Burfict dirty?  I don't see it.  

[Mdot21]

Love the announcers repeatedly saying this is bad for football...when they knew exactly what they were looking for in putting this game on Monday Night

yeah this is one of the nastiest rivalries in the NFL, and the Bengals defense features the dirtiest player in the NFL aside from Suh in Vontaze Burfict. Really bad idea to make this one the showcase game on Monday night.

[ELA]

Was the hit on Burfict dirty?  I don't see it.  

Dirty in the sense it was against the rules.  Three years ago it's a great block.  Clearly illegal now though.  The messed up part was that he stood over him and taunted after knocking a guy out with an illegal block, in a game where your teammate was taken off in a stretcher.  That was the classless part

[betarhoalphadelta]

Smith-Schuster and the Bengals DB who put the head-to-head hit on AB's TD catch suspended for a game each. 

[ELA]

Smith-Schuster and the Bengals DB who put the head-to-head hit on AB's TD catch suspended for a game each.

Those were both dirty hits within the confines of the play.  No way should either guy get the same penalty as Gronk whose play was just as dangerous, but WELL after the whistle while the guy was lying on the ground, making it also 100% dirty.

[betarhoalphadelta]

Those were both dirty hits within the confines of the play.  No way should either guy get the same penalty as Gronk whose play was just as dangerous, but WELL after the whistle while the guy was lying on the ground, making it also 100% dirty.

Agreed. That Gronk hit was absolutely unconscionable. Completely unnecessary, after the play, and with intent to harm.
I was watching the game last night, and the Smith-Schuster hit was a bit of a blindside and there was some helmet-to-helmet. Within the rules of the game as they are today, I think he went beyond the rules. That said, if he hadn't stood above Burfict taunting him, it might not have even been called as it wasn't *so* egregious, and not being on a ballcarrier hits like that often go unnoticed. A few years ago, that's just a great block. Now, that's a penalty. 
The DB on Brown was a similar hit. You're a DB and you're trying to hit a guy hard enough that he doesn't hold onto the ball. That's your job. He managed to launch himself headfirst at Brown's head, which absolutely deserved the penalty, but he was trying like hell to stop a TD catch. He went over the line.

[FearlessF]

on the Schuster hit and in game penalty

15 yards for the hit during the play, AFTER the play was dead, 15 yards for taunting - 30 yards total

this is why Gronk should have a 2-game suspension at a minimum, because these other hits are within the game and get 1-game

there's a 100% difference, should be a 100% difference in number of games suspended

Belichick should suspend him the additional game if the NFL doesn't 

[rook119]

The Browns hired....Grigson? 

[Mdot21]

The Browns hired....Grigson?

the same guy the Colts fired for ruining their roster and botching the draft every year?
That's so Cleveland Browns. Browns gonna Browns.

[ELA]

Wow.  They saw the Lions fail to be able to blow up their own stadium, and sure as hell weren't about to let Detroit steal the ineptitude headlines back.

[Mdot21]

Wow.  They saw the Lions fail to be able to blow up their own stadium, and sure as hell weren't about to let Detroit steal the ineptitude headlines back.

every time I feel bad for myself for being a Lions fan, I remember it could be worse....I could be a Browns fan.

[MarqHusker]

First time I've watched the colts this season.   I'm not really watching the colts of course.  Might be snowiest game I've seen since a Tampa Bay at Green Bay game in the 80s.