DeAngelo Williams & Fans Want Bengals Week 1

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(04-22-2016, 01:49 PM)PhilHos Wrote: I had some problems with the calls in that game, to be sure, but this wasn't one of them. Burfict may not have tried to hit Brown, but he did, in fact, hit him and hit him in the head with enough force to knock him out of the NEXT game. This is the very definition of the defenseless receiver rule. And, no, Brown was not diving and certainly not head first. Brown extended for a ball that was thrown too high (typically   ) and then as he was coming down, he started to duck as he sensed someone coming in for a hit (Burfict).

Watch the hit again here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tfLncD3pGM

But at no time did Brown dive (let alone dive head-first) and Burfict - whether intentional or not - DID hit Brown in the head.

There are plenty of things to smack the Steelers about (like their cowardice in wanting to play the Bengals without Burfict as you pointed out in your OP), you don't need to make shit up to smack them.

Ok, he didn't dive, but his head went before his body at the last second.  If he catches that ball and doesn't whip his head around to the far side of the field, Burfict misses him completely.  Burfict was doing his best to miss him, and Brown put his head into Burfict's path at the last second, and that's why the call was bullshit.  

(04-22-2016, 04:43 PM)JS-Steelerfan Wrote: Don't confuse him with reason.  

HA!  

Read above, look at it objectively (which is impossible for any Steelers fan, but give it a try), and tell me how Burfict committed a penalty there.

You can't go putting your head into other players' paths when they're trying to avoid hitting you and then claim "oh, he was head hunting, someone please change my tampon while I'm knocked out!"