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Originally Posted by Southpaw
I disagree that the Daniels and Carter hit wasn't illegal. They called roughing the passer on a much lesser hit on Brunell. Daniels and Carter damn near broke Manning's back.
When I first saw the hit, I thought it was bad, but not finable. Then I read a quote from Daniels in the Washington Post about it, and he said something like "we had him where we wanted him, but we let him off the hook". That sounds like some punk shit to me. He's basically saying "we can't defend him, so lets injure him". They probably will be fined if the NFL decides to look into it.
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I guess if you want to twist it that way, I took it as him saying they had the Colts down 14-13 at the half and they let the game get away in the 2nd half.
I really don't think he was trying to say that he was trying to hurt him. Daniels has never been known to be a dirty guy.
Look at the context of the quote, it doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the hit:
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One lasting memory of this game will be of Manning's elegant passing after the assault he took in the second quarter when Redskins end Phillip Daniels bent him backwards over Andre Carter and ripped the helmet off his head. The torque in Manning's spine sprung him back so violently that he flew face-first -- a 180-degree flip -- into the turf. Once back on the sideline, he still had a dozen bits of artificial turf imbedded in his forehead. On one subsequent series of downs, he seemed to be taking a standing eight count.
"We had him where we wanted him," Daniels said, "but we let him off the hook."
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