Mac Jones cheap shot

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(12-26-2022, 02:32 PM)michaelsean Wrote: But what is the purpose of going after Apple at all?

Because if Apple managed to catch up to Thornton, no matter how unlikely the possibility, then Pratt would be certain to reach the end zone.

Were the exact same play to happen with us on offense instead, people would have gone bonkers if one of our guys didn't at least try to make a block happen.

Again, it was a shitty job of blocking and an illegal block at that, but to say that there was an intent to injure there is ludicrous. I would be far more likely to believe that Burfict did intend to injure Antonio Brown (which I don't) over Jones was intending to hurt Apple. It was an illegal block which he has been fined for, but not an intent to injure.