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He actually retired because of neck injuries, ironically.I hope TJ Ford is ok.
Wishing pain, injury and paralysis on someone is not right.
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Wishing pain, injury and paralysis on someone is not right.
Oops!He actually retired because of neck injuries, ironically.
The knee injury comment was because he injured Gronk's knee, ergo him getting a knee injury would be "revenge". It's perfectly coherent. If he injuries a knee, maybe he'll think twice about going after other people's knees.It's one thing to not necessarily feel sorry for an especially dirty/asshat player. It's another thing entirely to maybe revel a bit, four whatever fleeting moment, when said player goes down.
Looking at the play, it seems his neck was affected. That is something I wish on no athlete, whatever his reputation. Given the walking and cart ride is assume it is nothing debilitating. I hope for his recovery (slowly would be nice). It was a play that could easily have been much (seemingly) worse than it was at first glance.
A serious neck injury would be debilitating, not only for his career, but his personal well being long after. It certainly does not appear to be the case, luckily.
Would any of you like to see a child/sibling/father taken off the field after that replay? It could easily have been much worse.
@NSPF, while I may share the disregard for the player, your "hoped" injury makes far less sense given current knee surgery standards abd recovery times. If you're going to act like a ****, at least do it coherently.
That's a normal response to a football player you don't know personally being injured. Could you post a few of the posts you have from this incident so we can see them? I know you must have hundreds on a memory stick.
The knee injury comment was because he injured Gronk's knee, ergo him getting a knee injury would be "revenge". It's perfectly coherent. If he injuries a knee, maybe he'll think twice about going after other people's knees.
I hope he can play. That guy couldn't cover my grandmother.
But can she rush the passer?
Here's a video. I won't watch it again. It was the dirtiest hit that I've ever seen, and it was during a pre-season game on a ball that had long since gone over Stingley's head.
When you think about it...it isn't far off of what Browner did against the Chargers. Stingley's head lowered towards the end with his momentum. But hey, it was an opposition player against one of our own...so there has to be uproar about it, right?
So you wish injury on Vince Wilfork, Donta Hightower, Brandon Browner, Chandler Jones, Devin McCourty, Jamie Collins and every other player who has been flagged for an illegal hit, or just Ward who was not flagged for a legal one but just so happened to deliver it to Gronk?
One can make an illegal hit w/o the intent to injure and a legal hit with the intent to injure. Legality is irrelevant to the player's POSness and deservingness of future injury. That NFL rules don't currently prohibit hitting a knee while the foot is planted doesn't make TJ Ward any less of a POS who deserves to get his career ended. He twice went for Gronk's knee with the intent (all but explicitly admitted the second time around) of ruining it.
He's a POS who deserves whatever bad things happen to him on the football field,
The result was horrific, Tatums comments were pathetic, Tatum was no doubt an intimidator and cheap shot artist, but that hit was common in that era. There was absolutely a code in the NFL that you needed to punish a receiver who had the nerve to come over the middle.
It was very common for DBs especially safeties to try to lay out a WR. And it was unabashedly done as a means to intimidate and make receivers fear coming over the middle.I wasn't planning on going on with this subject, but out of respect for your opinion I will add this one last comment, then you can have the last word.
Yes, the code was different then. I have vivid memories of fights, clothesline tackles and players like Butkis spinning around during a tackle while another player had the runners legs. It was like Butkis was trying to break the guy by twisting him. But I don't remember that particular play being popular. Yes, Tatum "the assassin" was a head hunter, but even for him that was a pathetic cheap shot that took Stingly's life.
I disagree. I think Ward was trying to make a tackle, no more, no less.
Since neither of us know what was in his mind, though, it would be pointless to debate.