Comments on: Takeo Spikes: NFL Getting Carried Away With Fines for Defensive Players http://larrybrownsports.com/football/takeo-spikes-nfl-fines-high-defensive-players/3426 Brown Bag it, Baby Sun, 27 May 2012 18:15:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Mathew http://larrybrownsports.com/football/takeo-spikes-nfl-fines-high-defensive-players/3426/comment-page-1#comment-355253 Mathew Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:52:01 +0000 http://larrybrownsports.com/?p=3426#comment-355253 I agree with Larry. If you ask any defensive backs coach in the league if they thought Eric Smith approached that hit incorrectly they will tell you he was doing exactly what he is coached to do and shouldn't be doing anything else. Smith paid the price of the collision being knocked unconscious with a concussion. I agree with Larry. If you ask any defensive backs coach in the league if they thought Eric Smith approached that hit incorrectly they will tell you he was doing exactly what he is coached to do and shouldn’t be doing anything else. Smith paid the price of the collision being knocked unconscious with a concussion.

]]> By: Larry Brown http://larrybrownsports.com/football/takeo-spikes-nfl-fines-high-defensive-players/3426/comment-page-1#comment-317019 Larry Brown Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:30:24 +0000 http://larrybrownsports.com/?p=3426#comment-317019 Eric Smith was going in for a normal hit, Kerry Rhodes happened to hit Boldin from behind and that pushed Boldin into Smith's helmet. That's why it turned out worse than it should have been, so I stand by what I said. Eric Smith was going in for a normal hit, Kerry Rhodes happened to hit Boldin from behind and that pushed Boldin into Smith’s helmet. That’s why it turned out worse than it should have been, so I stand by what I said.

]]> By: Shawn http://larrybrownsports.com/football/takeo-spikes-nfl-fines-high-defensive-players/3426/comment-page-1#comment-316704 Shawn Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:21:55 +0000 http://larrybrownsports.com/?p=3426#comment-316704 Um, if you think the Eric Smith hit was a normal hit, you have absolutely no clue. And that kind of undermines your entire argument. See, the NFL is trying to get across the idea that elevating and striking with the helmet - especially to the other guy's helmet so that he'd be laying on the ground unconscious with blood streaming out of his mouth - is illegal. They'll continue to elevate the fines until people stop referring to these as "normal hits". It does seem pretty silly though to hear the defensive players whining about what Hines Ward does. Compared to the Eric Smith "normal hit", Ward's supposedly "dirty" hits are the equivalent of a sorority girl pillow fight. Um, if you think the Eric Smith hit was a normal hit, you have absolutely no clue. And that kind of undermines your entire argument. See, the NFL is trying to get across the idea that elevating and striking with the helmet – especially to the other guy’s helmet so that he’d be laying on the ground unconscious with blood streaming out of his mouth – is illegal. They’ll continue to elevate the fines until people stop referring to these as “normal hits”.

It does seem pretty silly though to hear the defensive players whining about what Hines Ward does. Compared to the Eric Smith “normal hit”, Ward’s supposedly “dirty” hits are the equivalent of a sorority girl pillow fight.

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