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LaCanfora just twittered that suspensions may be coming including for first time helmut to helmut hits... I hope no one gives him Brandon's WEEI appearance tape...
He hasn't and we will unless he gets benched permanently. He's on WEEI now and he's been told if he played off he'd have intercepted it. Apparently by several folks... Doesn't care. Doesn't care what Rodney says either. Seems to want to embrace the nonsense Vince (who will sadly never be the kind of leader on defense this team is now sadly lacking) spewed earlier. He will not change his style of agressive play no matter what anyone says. Mr. Yuks...what a clown. No accountability, everything's a joke. Bill needs to pull him off the air for his own good.
It's easy to say that when you're looking at it from the standpoint of a fan. However, it's a lot different for him on the field. All Meriweather probably saw was Heap going up high for the ball and his instincts told him that he had to dislodge the receiver from the football, which he did. Unfortunately, as has been pointed out in here, he mistimed the hit and it ended up costing us 15.
It's also funny how people forget that he helped dislodge the ball from Boldin at the goal line only to get called for a B.S. penalty. I didn't see any reason why that flag should have been thrown on Meriweather. That was a great, well timed play on his part.
If he keeps committing flagrant penalties he will likey get hit with increasing BS penalties too. That's part of the deal. Instead of listening to Vince he should let Bianca manage his life too. She's a way more effective leader than everyone's eternal buddy Vince, unfortunately, will ever be.
This is just me, but Harrison fits the bill of a juicer. Got very big very fast, went from irrelevant to DPOY in 2 years, didn't hit his prime till age 30, and has shown repeated examples of roid rage (like in the superbowl where he kept punching Ralph Brown after the play was over). If he didn't play for the franchise the NFL tries so hard to paint as the class of the NFL, I bet he woulda been busted for it by now.If that's the case, then I hope James Harrison gets hit with a multiple game suspension for what he did yesterday. Not only did he go helmet to helmet, not only did he launch himself to go helmet to helmet, but he did both to a receiver that was already going down. Then, a couple of series later, he did the same thing to Massaquoi. That's two in one game. He deserves to be hit with at least a two game suspension, one for each hit.
As for Meriweather, this doesn't surprise me. The helmet to helmet hits are getting worse and worse and the fines don't seem to be cutting it. I had a feeling last night that it would be a suspension.
Certainly. Merriweather is a Patriot. Suspend him! Set another league example using the Patriots.
That said, Merriweather is a doofus for making that hit.
Vince was credited for displaying the type of leadership that kept the defense from coming apart early in the season when it seemed like the entire media and world was coming down on them for sucking. So I'm not sure where you're getting that Vince isn't a leadership type from.
This is just me, but Harrison fits the bill of a juicer. Got very big very fast, went from irrelevant to DPOY in 2 years, didn't hit his prime till age 30, and has shown repeated examples of roid rage (like in the superbowl where he kept punching Ralph Brown after the play was over). If he didn't play for the franchise the NFL tries so hard to paint as the class of the NFL, I bet he woulda been busted for it by now.
This statement sounds like it might be going forward. And they aren't talking about suspending for incidental contact but for egregious hits, which is what Brandon's would certainly qualify as, intent aside.
VP Ray Anderson: NFL might start suspending for violent hits - ESPN