DarrylS

It was obviously a helmet to helmet hit, isn't that a penalty??

If so the fumble would have been negated, there would have been penalty yards and the down would have been taken over..

I keep hearing how it was a clean hit, did not look all that clean to this viewer....

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Sciz

Helmet to helmet is only illegal on defenseless players. An RB with the ball is not defenseless.

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rlcarr

Look -- I hate Pollard enough that I wanted to see someone do to his face what Kermit Washington did to Rudy T.

But that one was on Ridley. Pollard actually came in low and Ridley lowered his helmet right into Pollard's.

BradyBranch39

Can someone explain to me why in Goodell's Pansy Football League, it's ok to show an injury highlight reel of Pollard?

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jcdavey

i wish my team had pollard, dude is a destroyer

BennyBledsoe

I thought helmet-to-helmet was on ANY play?

Unnecessary roughness is the one that changes based on whether or not they're defenseless, right?

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Hardboiled

Nope. A runner is not defenseless.

BennyBledsoe

I thought helmet-to-helmet was on ANY play.

I guess I'll leave the rest of that statement out since it seems to confuse people.

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ChoWZa

Theres no helmet to helmet penalty on the running back. It's only to protect Wide Receivers catching the ball. The runner can spear the defenders with his helmet as well. Like it or not it's the rule =/

I thought it was incredibly poor judgment not to rule the player down on the field, if the ball landed near Ridley and there was a pile on him, in his condition it could have been a very serious neck/spine injury.

An unconscious player going down with the ball should be ruled dead on the field. It needs to be a new rule next year. I know the Patriot's have benefited from it at times, but if player safety is really as important as we want to believe it is, it does need to be blown dead.

wrinkle

The pats lost because they got out-played not because of the refs, stop Crying like Brady!!!