08-29-2017, 09:08 AM
(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.
Thing is Murdock.....92 was only suspended ONCE for ONE game. Let that sink in. Fines were his punishment, and in 2010, the league actually returned some of the money.
https://www.behindthesteelcurtain.com/nfl-pittsburgh-steelers-news/2015/2/7/7995405/james-harrison-has-racked-up-150000-in-fines-since-2002
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