10-20-2016, 01:09 AM
For those of you participating in the media orchestrated anti-Burfict hysteria, Whitworth says you don't understand anything about football.
Quote:Whitworth went through Sunday’s play where Burfict was roasted in Twitterland for taking a shot at Patriots tight end Martellus’ Bennett’s knee away from the play.http://www.bengals.com/news/article-1/Notes-Bengals-balk-at-Tezian-narrative-Tez-Eifert-limited-Browns-sold-out-On-the-run/0794e229-4f97-4ce6-a49b-5e282299de28
“Anybody that understands anything about football knows that that play was a pump fake where they threw it at the tight end,” Whitworth said. “Vontaze put his head down and dove at the tight end's legs like every linebacker in the National Football League does to tackle those big guys. And the ball actually zips right over their head. Martellus even stuck his hands up for a minute thinking he was getting the ball. The story is not that Vontaze got up and apologized to him and said 'I didn't realize you weren't getting the ball.' Martellus has even said that.
“The story is that Vontaze is a monster for doing that. The story should be exactly the situation. It's a bang-bang play, he made a mistake, he got up and immediately apologized to the player. The player even acknowledged that he apologized. But the only thing we're talking about is Vontaze is a monster. Why? Because everyone wants a story. It's not a story. It's irrelevant to talk about it.”
