(08-28-2017, 12:40 AM)Joelist Wrote: It's time Mikey and the rest of the ownership stood up to the league office. Publicly call them out on their anti-Bengals bias over the years and show film examples of FAR worse hits (like Shazier spearing Gio) that were winked at and publicly call for the immediate replacement of Roger Goodell. Announce you've hired investigators to look into the Commissioner and also any and all officials who have made questionable calls against the Bengals in the past with an eye to establishing bribery and/or sports betting abuses.

Is it kind of psycho? Yup. But the point is to present the league a choice - remove the bias or the Bengals will make their goal the destruction of the NFL.

(08-28-2017, 01:14 AM)Joelist Wrote: Now look at the video with that rule in mind. There is ZERO contact with either the head or heck and ZERO use of the helmet. At that point the play becomes 100% legal.

(08-28-2017, 01:16 AM)Gamma Ray Tan Wrote: That is a perfectly legal hit on any level of football. I saw a similar, if not more brutal, hit in a high school football game Friday night..... No flag, no ejection, happened right in front of ref, the crowd let out an audible Ohhhhh! Why does the NFL suck at this.

(08-28-2017, 12:35 AM)TKUHL Wrote: In his defense Smith pump faked to him, he thought the ball was going to him so he lowered his head and hit him.

(08-28-2017, 02:19 AM)Joelist Wrote: In the worse case scenario where the appeal is denied and the Bengals chicken out of going nuclear on the NFL we need a competent OLB to take Tez's spot. Vincent Rey is garbage so I think I'd actually have Jordan Evans in there.

(08-28-2017, 02:22 AM)BFritz21 Wrote: When I first saw it, I thought it was dirty and we were definitely screwed.

Upon further review, he does kind of pump fake to him, but the ball is already over his head when he makes contact.

I don't know...... it will be tough to argue that he wasn't just picking on a defenseless guy, and I could see it maybe getting reduced, but five games is a lot to just say "ok, we saw enough to erase THE ENTIRE suspension."

(08-28-2017, 02:41 AM)BrownAssClown Wrote: Let me get this straight....Huber gets his jaw broken, Gio about gets decapitated "Crickets" Tez makes what looks to me like a clean hit on a fullback, not a quarterback or a receiver, a big fullback and the NFL loses it's shit. I'm about done; I've been a fan of the Bengals and the NFL since 1978. With players not standing for the National Anthem and the league showing clear bias for certain teams and players I've about had it. I hope the front office shows some backbone and stands up to the league, not sure what if anything they can do, but I would try to think of something.