Burfict facing suspension

[Savagehenry54]

(08-29-2017, 01:10 AM)Murdock2420 Wrote: This is where I disagree.

Yes, Burfict has earned his rep with ankle twisting and late hits and all of that crap he deserved to be suspended for but this hit is not an offense that warrants a suspension and that is why a lot of people including myself are calling it targeting of the franchise and a player. 

When James Harrison was getting suspended over and over he cleaned up a little, and then the suspensions stopped. Last year, Burfict was flagged once for and was fined nothing. The league hammering him for a normal football play that is coached into LBer's starting in pop warner is the issue here. 

This isn't reaping what he sowed, this is targeting. If it was reaping what someone sowed, Harrison would still get suspended, Shazier would have been suspended. Everything he does gets blown way the hell up by the media and the league, and that is completely biased and unfair.

He was a nutjob, but if people don't see the trend in the right direction they are just blind haters.

Yep.  You don't let a receiver cross your face unchecked on those shallow crossing routes, LBS are supposed to hit those guys.  Bengals staff should gather video of other lbs doing the exact same thing this preseason cuz certainly they have been, and submit it to the league.

Even more disturbing than this bullshit is that the new rule they're citing....the first example of "defenseless posture" states that "a player in the act of or just after throwing a pass, (passing posture)" is a defenseless player.  According to the rule the way it is worded, it is literally illegal to hit a qb who has begun his throwing motion.....haven't seen it called yet but the way it's written is very clear.  A qb in the act of throwing, is considered defenseless and can't be legally hit.