12-26-2022, 02:49 PM
(12-26-2022, 02:08 PM)jfkbengals Wrote: Well that was a click bait title. "Reportedly facing possible suspension" means the league is considering suspension. Instead, per the article suspension is reported as unlikely. But because Florio made and article that points out that suspension is among the permissible disciplines for the action, they use that to justify the headline. Unreal.
As to the play itself, I don't think it was a dirty intent. That's how QBs are taught to block and tackle, go low on your own and trip the guy up instead of letting him possibly getting his hands on the QB and shoving him down in a way that can get the QB hurt. Hell, Burrow tried to tackle the returner the same way on the INT (the pick six?). I don't disagree that the play was unnecessary on Jones' part or that it could have led to injury, but I just don't think he was intending to injure Apple's knees. Just a poor decision by a guy who isn't expected to be in that circumstance very often.
There's a major difference between trying to make a tackle on the ball carrier vs the Apple play where he's 10 yards behind and has no involvement in the play. Seems obvious Jones was trying to make a dirty hit because there's literally no reason for Jones to have gone near Apple.
