As you might expect, the Pittsburgh Steelers are not happy about the tackle Terrell Suggs made on LeGarrette Blount in the second half of Sunday night’s game.
After Blount was stood up by several Baltimore Ravens players, Suggs came in and dove at the running back’s legs. You can watch the play here and decide for yourself if you thought it was dirty.
The Steelers certainly felt Suggs delivered a cheap shot.
“I don’t know what [Suggs] was doing,” Blount said after Pittsburgh’s 43-23 win, via the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. “I don’t know what he was thinking. He’s known to be a dirty player. As long as he does that he’s going to continue to have people come after him and do whatever we did to get in his head.”
Steelers offensive tackle Marcus Gilbert agreed, adding that the Ravens are “a bunch of trash talkers.”
“He should be getting a FedEx (fine) in the mail,” Gilbert said. “If he doesn’t, I’ll be very surprised and very disappointed. You don’t play football like that, especially when the play is already over. You don’t go back at a guy’s knees.”
Suggs was flagged for unnecessary roughness. Blount was basically being driven back at the time Suggs decided to come in and hit him. Not surprisingly, Suggs didn’t think he did anything wrong.
“I assessed the play,” he said. “That was the only way I could get him down without him gaining more yards. I wasn’t trying to get him hurt. I was just trying to get the big guy down. Whatever.”
The Steelers and Ravens hate each other. Suggs has said in the past that nothing gets him going quite like playing Pittsburgh, so we’re not surprised he was the one to dump more fuel on the fire.
