(12-05-2017, 04:57 PM)StrictlyBiz Wrote: It's fair. 

http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/21678678/juju-smith-schuster-pittsburgh-steelers-george-iloka-cincinnati-bengals-suspended-1-game

(12-05-2017, 05:33 PM)BigPapaKain Wrote: After the fact, yeah I guess. Personally I'd of gone with the ejection and no suspension. He is a first time offender; suspension seems steep. Even if it is only a game.

(12-05-2017, 06:25 PM)StrictlyBiz Wrote: I think the league has had enough and they're skipping fines and going straight to suspensions. If either of these hits happen against any other team, then both are just fines. And maybe this is what needs to be done. 

(12-06-2017, 09:29 AM)WychesWarrior Wrote: Agreed.  This shit isn't good for either team.

(12-06-2017, 09:41 AM)JS-Steelerfan Wrote: I don’t know what it is about these two teams, but they seem to bring out the worst in each other.  Even Ravens games haven’t been this bad.

(12-06-2017, 09:41 AM)JS-Steelerfan Wrote: I don’t know what it is about these two teams, but they seem to bring out the worst in each other.  Even Ravens games haven’t been this bad.

(12-06-2017, 10:18 AM)GMDino Wrote: There are very few people who want to see injuries...you know who you are...but the first game this year was very quiet.  

What were the "dirty plays" in the second game?

One block that ended up being H2H during a play and one shot to the head on the AB TD in "retaliation" of the block.

And two days later everyone is still wetting their pants over the "violence".

Football is violent every play.  350 pound men run into each other as hard as they can on every snap.  But the optics of the plays when two players are isolated draw the attention.  And on those rare occasions (compared to the number of plays in a game) that a player doesn't jump right back up it draws even more attention.  As it should if it was deliberately dirty or late.

I'm not out there calling for it to be flag football or saying the NFL has gone soft.  I'm also not saying player safety isn't important.

But if player safety is REALLY the goal they would have better helmets...and they would care about all the players not just the high profile ones when they get hit.

(12-06-2017, 03:06 PM)Hoofhearted Wrote: No, it's not. Violence is physical assault with intent to harm or injure others. That's not the way football is *supposed* to be played. Aggressive? Sure, I can buy that all day long, but football should not be violent.

(12-06-2017, 04:25 PM)GMDino Wrote: And Iloka had his suspension overturned.


Because that hit is a more commonly fined hit?


I guess someone can get CTE from taunting now.


What a joke.


Well, at least the internet whine machine will be relieved.

(12-06-2017, 04:46 PM)StrictlyBiz Wrote: This should put to rest the "NFL favors the Steelers" narrative, but it wont.

The NFL seriously dropped the ball with this one. Nuances aside, you had two personal foul penalties for two H2H hits and the chance to reign in some of the ugliness that is going on between these two teams by dropping the hammer by skipping the fines and going straight to suspensions. I think that it would get the players attention that any H2H hits in this series are going to be an automatic suspension and that would maybe slow things down. This was the perfect and most fair opportunity to do something, but instead they are now saying that taunting is equivalent to a vicious and deliberate hit to the head that occurred out of bounds and after the whistle, thus proving that the NFL gives more of a shit about their image than player safety. 

(12-06-2017, 09:41 AM)JS-Steelerfan Wrote: I don’t know what it is about these two teams, but they seem to bring out the worst in each other.  Even Ravens games haven’t been this bad.

(12-06-2017, 10:02 AM)Wyche Wrote: Absolutely.  The league needs to step in and gain control......if they truly are concerned with safety over ratings.

(12-06-2017, 10:18 AM)GMDino Wrote: One block that ended up being H2H during a play and one shot to the head on the AB TD in "retaliation" of the block.

(12-06-2017, 04:25 PM)GMDino Wrote: And Iloka had his suspension overturned.


Because that hit is a more commonly fined hit?


I guess someone can get CTE from taunting now.


What a joke.


Well, at least the internet whine machine will be relieved.

(12-06-2017, 04:46 PM)StrictlyBiz Wrote: This should put to rest the "NFL favors the Steelers" narrative, but it wont.

The NFL seriously dropped the ball with this one. Nuances aside, you had two personal foul penalties for two H2H hits and the chance to reign in some of the ugliness that is going on between these two teams by dropping the hammer by skipping the fines and going straight to suspensions. I think that it would get the players attention that any H2H hits in this series are going to be an automatic suspension and that would maybe slow things down. This was the perfect and most fair opportunity to do something, but instead they are now saying that taunting is equivalent to a vicious and deliberate hit to the head that occurred out of bounds and after the whistle, thus proving that the NFL gives more of a shit about their image than player safety.