Archives for September 30, 2019

‘Opinions on whether the play should have resulted in an ejection were split, unsurprisingly, along team lines.’

‘“There’s no room in football for that,” McDermott said. “It’s a shame to see a player like Josh or any player for that matter, go down with a hit like that.”‘

‘“I’ll have to watch it on film. I was just running around playing football,” he said. “There’s no intent to ever hurt anyone. I don’t think anyone ever tries to go helmet to helmet. Everyone is just flying around trying to make plays.”’

‘“Well, we looked at it and in this situation, we didn’t feel that the contact rose to the level of an ejection,” Riveron told pool reporter Vic Carucci. “The player actually turns. Obviously, there is helmet contract, but we have standards for an ejections, and this did not rise to that standard; therefore, we did not eject him. There was a foul called and obviously the penalty stood, but we did not feel this contact rose to that level.”‘

‘“That’s the first thing that came out of my mouth on the sideline. If one of us did that to 12, we wouldn’t have been in the game anymore,” Hyde said. “There’s no way we would have continued to play in that game, even with the holding penalty that we had, offset — no. There’s no way. … If that was their quarterback, there’s no way that you could continue playing.”’

‘“He didn’t know what we were doing. He looked shook back there,” Van Noy said.’

‘“We heard it as a defense. We got a chance to compete against them today. We got a win. That’s what it’s about,” he said. “Everybody that likes competing, you hear it. You want to play to it.”’

‘“Never. I don’t think anybody ever tries to go helmet to helmet,” Jones said. “Everyone is just flying around. You want to make plays and stops.”’

‘“It’s disappointing because there’s no room for that kind of play in the NFL,” McDermott said Sunday.’

‘It’s tough to disregard Hyde’s take. The unfortunate reality across all major sports is different rules apply to top-tier players. Hyde also isn’t the first player to call attention to the referees’ apparent preferential treatment of Brady. Miami Dolphins linebacker Raekwon McMillan claims he was told by officials to “stay off Tom” in the Patriots’ Week 2 win in South Beach.’

‘“That play right there, it’s just tough,” McCourty said. “How are you supposed to hit a guy? For one, Josh Allen’s not a small guy. And he’s competing, he’s leaning, he’s trying to get a first down. I think he was, like, a yard short. We always talk about it, though. We’ve got to try to hit guys and not hit them in the head, so we’ll watch it and try to do a better job of it, because it’s a key point.”‘

‘Anyone in the stadium can watch warmups, but perhaps McDermott was concerned the Patriots coaches could overhear the conversation.’

‘Hyde, in fairness, does make fair points with these comments, but the reality is a six-time Super Bowl champion is going to be treated differently than a second-year quarterback.’

‘”We all know J. Jones is a striker,” Harmon said. “He can hit pretty hard. Just the way the league is, if it looks too hard, they’re going to just call a penalty on it. It’s unfortunate. We’ll learn from it. We’ll work through it. And we’ll get better from it.”‘