Baldy's Breakdown Bills Jets Week 17

[Johnny Hammersticks]

He didn’t have to.  He did it bc he could.  That’s good physical football, IMO.  I have loved watching our o-line play like that all season long.

[Sierra Foothills]

5 hours ago, CoudyBills said:

It's football, not the honor guard.

 

4 hours ago, eball said:

If he had hit him low it would have been a cheap shot and penalty.  What he did was perfectly legal (and filthy).

 

3 hours ago, machine gun kelly said:

Respectfully you must have never played or coached competitive football.  You play until the whistle is blown.  If Dawkins were to kick him after the play, that’s a cheap shot.  Playing til the whistle is the definition of football.  There is nothing cheap about it.

 

Contrary to what you guys are saying, there is a line in football between what is acceptable and what is not. Unnecessary roughness is similar to the law enforcement concept of "excessive force."

 

Do you guys remember this "clean hit" by Warren Sapp on Chad Clifton? The hit complied with the letter of the law at that time.

 

Clifton suffered a fractured pelvis, was hospitalized, and couldn't walk for 5 weeks. He missed the remainder of the season including the playoffs. In 2005, the NFL Competition Committee agreed on new guidelines for "unnecessary roughness", making hits such as that suffered by Clifton illegal.

 

 

Head on a swivel or not, acts like Sapps and Shnowman's are excessive, unnecessary, and malicious. Call me what you'd like but I'd prefer to enjoy a sport where there is some respect and consideration (and please don't confuse kindness for weakness) for your opponent. 

 

So I respectfully disagree with you guys.

 

[Don Otreply]

IMO, the opponent was well out of impacting the play in any fashion, being that two other Bills players had him well contained,  the knock down by Dawkins was hardly necessary, but it was not as hard a hit as is being made out, and the opposing players made zero protest after picking himself up, much ado about nothing really, 

 

GO BILLS!!!

[mannc]

7 hours ago, Coach Tuesday said:

Cheap shot in the sense that he didn’t have to work for that block at all - so it’s not worth pointing out on a clinic tape like Baldy did.  Dawkins had many great plays in that game but pancaking a defender who was engaged with two other blockers after the play was basically over is not an example of elite line play.  Anyone off the street could do that.

 

 

This is exactly the point I was trying to make...anyone can knock a guy down by hitting him from the blindside while he's engaged with two other blockers.  It's not particularly dangerous or even against the rules, but it's certainly not a play worthy of praise from a guy like Baldinger, whom I like a lot.  Despite the recent rule changes, pro football remains an extremely hazardous sport (check out the injury reports around the league if you think otherwise) and, IMO, plays like this are wholly "unnecessary".    

Edited Saturday at 10:26 PM by mannc

[4th&long]

I would think if it was a cheap shot baldy would have said so. The guy knows football..