williams fined for cheap shot on coles.

BrudLee,

Thanks for cleaning up that classless slur.

These hits happen all the time in the NFL and I don't think safeties should be finded for them. Since the NFL fines everyone I think Roy should be fined, only because that's the precedent. Hits like this are part of the game and they're not cheap. If a wide reciever puts himself out there, he knows the risk.

The NFL is trying to prevent broken necks and brain injuries. If the rule prevents one catastrophic injury, it's a good rule.

These hits happen all the time in the NFL and I don't think safeties should be finded for them. Since the NFL fines everyone I think Roy should be fined, only because that's the precedent. Hits like this are part of the game and they're not cheap. If a wide reciever puts himself out there, he knows the risk.

Absolutely a critical and GOOD rule. The last theng the NFL needs is WR's carted off paralyzed for life. That is what would happen if those hits were allowed - they would be so commonplace that many serious injuries would occur. When the rule first went into effect against clotheslining, I did not like it either, because it was the bread and butter of our own Chris Hanburger. It was great seeing those guys flipped in the air. Problem was, it was EXTREMELY dangerous. And another thing: you have to remember that just in the last few years, there has been a major emphasis on bodybuilding in the NFL. The players are all MUCH more powerful and MUCH heavier than they used to be. That intensifies the problem. You get a 250 pound LB spearing the head of a 170 pound WR going over the middle, look out. I don't want to see those injuries.

I agree that helmet to helmet hits can not be permissible, but didn't they have that as a rule emphasis a year or two ago? Which caused huge fines for hits that didn't look like anything more than just a huge hit?

I'm all for punishing truly dangerous hits, but I also want players to hit hard when someone comes across the middle (namely the Washington Redskins!)

there was a guy from green bay who got fined for doing the same thing to payton manning.who did LA get fined for yanking the face mask of?

Tiki Barber. Didn't even get a flag for it in the game.

http://esc25.midphase.com/~smithj/facemask.gif

Now..tell me more about hypocrisy...

I agree that helmet to helmet hits can not be permissible, but didn't they have that as a rule emphasis a year or two ago? Which caused huge fines for hits that didn't look like anything more than just a huge hit?

I'm all for punishing truly dangerous hits, but I also want players to hit hard when someone comes across the middle (namely the Washington Redskins!)

DEFINITIVE PROOF there was no helmet to helmet contact from a new and best angle of the hit:

http://jaybauer24.tripod.com/cowboysvids/Newhit.mpg

It looked like helmet to helmet to me, though not as obvious as the helmet to helmet hit RW lay on his teammate Terence Newman right after the play