08-04-2016, 08:57 AM
I think there are Bengals fans who want to vilify any behavior they can out of the Steelers to justify the actions of our own players. I just cannot imagine any player intentionally putting their head in the way of a potentially massive hit considering all of the risk to one's health. It's not like the Steelers were in desperation mode quite yet. They still had time to make some plays and get into field goal range.
It looked like instinct to me - a player (and one who was off-balance, at that) trying to brace himself for a big hit over the middle. Besides, to think that in that split second he made the conscious decision to try to draw the penalty is giving Brown too much credit.
It looked like instinct to me - a player (and one who was off-balance, at that) trying to brace himself for a big hit over the middle. Besides, to think that in that split second he made the conscious decision to try to draw the penalty is giving Brown too much credit.
