Texans Duane Brown Should Be Fined

And based on the league’s commitment to fining players for these hits, they have no recourse but to fine him.

They started this circus grossly underestimating the gray area involved. They chose to take a stance of “we know it when we see it.” The only excuse they would have for not fining him would be “we aren’t looking at offensive players.”

there is much blood :(.

how Albert Haynesworth should have been suspended, but wasn’t?

im sry ur team is azz. i still dont wish bad on glass jaw rivers

now get out!

of why there should be a 24-hour waiting period before new members are permitted to post. He signed up just to grace us with this asinine post.

Rec’d

Which losers do you root for?

Roger Goodell? Nice of you to drop by commissioner.

name one time Harrison used his helmet to hit another players helmet, besides the Browns game… I’ll wait.

this isn’t about whether or not Harrison would approve of the Ferocity, which I think he would. It is about whether the rules and fines are applied to all players or just the defensive players. Reread the last sentence, had this hit been reversed Harrison would already be fined. I am not saying it is right, but if you are going to fine D players for the same thing then you must hold O players to the same standard. This wasn’t incidental contact, like a reciever lowering his body into a hit, it was a man a full four inches taller lowering himself and using the crown of his helmet, which is the letter of the rule.

If they don’t fine him it’s because they’re (those that are them) are getting Ward back for creating the rule.

although if it was intentional (and it looked like it was) then yes, it was a dirty hit. The issue is whether it was a legal hit, and, intentional or not, it certainly wasn’t legal.

Harrison was fined for hits last season that weren’t intentional, but they weren’t legal either. The issue in re a fine is whether the NFL office is administering justice impartially or not.

James Harrison kneeling down when the trainers were looking at Andre Johnson one play before Harrison got hurt. There’s a mutual respect within the fraternity of football players.

sounds like youre whining. you’ve also got the most original tag i’ve ever seen.

but the genie is out of the bottle, and that’s the end of the story. The league knows too much about the devastating effects of head injuries to ignore them anymore, even if their concern is merely financial at the base of it. The game has to change, and it is changing. You may note that Deebo has played some inspired football this season and hasn’t received a single fine. He bitched last season, and I supported his right to bitch, because the league basically changed their enforcement mid-stream, without giving the guys a chance to adjust. But I didn’t disagree with the need for change.

To his immense credit Harrison manned up and changed the way he played. Any reduction in effectiveness we have seen this season is due to his conditioning issues because of his back, not to any reduced “ferocity” on his part.

I totally don’t get how a good wrap-up tackle that minimizes the risk of injury for either player is less exciting than watching someone possibly end someone else’s career. Injuries are still inevitable, given the nature of the game, but anything that reduces the possibility of long-term brain damage is surely a good thing.

that fairness doesn’t matter. If the league office wants to give the perception that some teams are more favored than others, they have gone about it really well, with situations like Albert Haynesworth not receiving a single minute of game suspension after pleading no contest to a criminal accusation, but Ben receiving six games (okay, reduced to four) for not even being charged. You either administer justice even-handedly or you admit that it isn’t justice you’re dispensing, it’s favors.

I think the bone of contention here is the uneveness with which fines are being levied, not the play in question. Basically the League is saying that it is okay for the offensive players to do it, but not the defensive players. something doesn’t sit well with that. The Steelers among other similarly minded teams have built their franchise on Defense, and they are being penalized for it. Whereas offensive minded teams are being rewarded for it.