09-17-2015, 12:20 PM
(09-17-2015, 11:55 AM)jj22 Wrote: Stiff arm? Wait who had the ball? I've never saw a non ball carrier execute a stiff arm (twice) sigh. Enough with the excuses for Cooper. Why all the excuses by Bengal fans for a non Bengal, over a Bengal. Weird. You won't see that with other fan bases. It's time we rally around our players instead of listening to the national media and slamming them because the media does. They didn't watch the game (just the highlights of Jones actions), and we all saw how Oakland got when they start losing (chirpy, cheap shots etc). Typical of Oakland teams. Cooper didn't have the ball so no he wasn't stiff arming anyone. He was jabbing him in the throat. And I bet if he plays Jones again he won't try him again. Don't start something you can't finish. That's the moral to this story, and what we all as Bengal fans should be preaching as we circle the wagon around Jones, who we all know has come a long way and deserves our support. Especially as he's stepped up as a leader of the D.
Nobody got mad when Burfict set the tone for the defense in what some could deem a dirty way. Lets try to remember that when we slam Jones. Unless those same posters slammed Burfict too. Which I can pretty much guarantee they didn't.
I don't think many of us were thrilled with Burfict twisting ankles and nut-tapping people. I have no real issue with any big hits he's laid during the play.
Adam "don't call me Pacman" Jones could have, and should have lit Amari up on one of the next few plays. That's that.
The logic that we should blindly defend a guy because he plays on our team is borderline stupid. I don't even know where you're going with that. If my sister commits a crime, I'm not going to pretend it didn't happen just because she's my sister. Cooper illegally stiff armed Jones and then our guy retaliated in a way that we don't feel that he should have.
If a Steelers player does the same thing to one of our guys, you're just going to cry that it's dirty. Your argument is that we should just defend our Bengals players whether they're right or wrong, and that's dumb. I'm going to defend whoever I feel isn't in the wrong in a given situation, I'm intelligent enough to be able to separate what jersey people are wearing for the sake of forming a logical opinion.
