pencilneckgeek
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Are the differences between aiming your helmet at someone's knee and tackling low that hard to understand? Aiming your helmet at someone's knee is as Zolak put it: a punk ass play.
WRONG. Aiming your helmet at someone's knees is not legal. It's intent to injure.Both are legal. So who do you blame? Somebody playing within the rules or the guy that made the rules ?
Tackling at the THIGH is not a cheap shot. And I can guarantee you that no one said a damn thing to Ayers yesterday other than to say "Nice Sack."It was an obvious cheap shot. It might be legal, but I'm betting his coaches told him to quit it, so Payton's career didn't end yesterday.
This is bad juju.. Never wish an injury on a player regardless if the player is a POS or not.
WRONG. Aiming your helmet at someone's knees is not legal. It's intent to injure.
Anyone who thinks these two tackles (not to mention the intent of each of the tackles) are equivalent can seriously just f*** off.
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Oh and for the "Well how would YOU try to tackle Gronk?" crowd. take notes from ayers. Helmet at the waist/thigs and wrap up the legs. That's how you tackle bigger guys, not spearing the knee cap with the crown of the helmet.
You absolutely need to go low on gronk if you want to tackle him. We are all sensitive when it comes to gronks knee. He is one of the keys to us winning another superbowl.... But you can't blame ward for doing a legal hit. If anyone is to blame here it would be the NFL for allowing such a hit.
Whether or not ward could be penalized for the hit will never change my mind about it being an attempted injury producing one. I absolutely blame any player that attempts to take a guy out by hurting them....especially a guy who just last year did exactly that to the same guy he went after this time. Ward knew exactly what he was trying to do and he even celebrated the hit despite it being a pretty big play by Gronk. He celebrated it because it was Gronk that he hit low....the same Gronk he ended the season for last year. Now if you want to hide behind "the rule made him do it" go ahead. I just happen to believe a rule doesn't give a hit man license to anyone just because they can get a way with it. F**k him.Both are legal. So who do you blame? Somebody playing within the rules or the guy that made the rules ?
I've had large disagreements with posters here who believe you shouldn't compare tackles in other sports to that of the NFL. Good tackling technique transcends sports. Ayers was an attempted and executed tackle, Ward was an attempted hit.Few things here, ayers didn't tackle gronk he tackled manning. One is a QB standing still and the other is a huge beast TE running full speed. Not exactly comparable. Its alot easier to wrap up a non moving target. Ward tackled gronk the best effective legal way he knew how. I know that's not the "popular" opinion on here, but its the truth.