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It was a clean hit, and Wes had his head down going into Swearinger's shoulder. Swearinger could have put his hands out. But Manning threw the ball up enough that Wes really had no time at all to make that catch, feel the pressure and get down to avoid that hit.
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Yup. People are coming down hard on Swearinger — while I understand he's hardly a saint, seemed to me he did the right thing on such a quick play. He had much less time to avoid contact than, say Wlker did when he took out Talib last year.
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