Saints v. Skins Gameday Thread

[HailGreen28]

Originally Posted by over the mountain

I dont want to belabor a point and wont post about this again but .... going to the 4:40 mark, ST blocked a dude in direct pursuit of a redskins ball carrier. That was his no. 1 job. The skins had the ball.

ST should have been blocking whereas Browner should have been trying to avoid blocks to make a tackle. I think you are missing the distinction that Browner, as a defender, should be avoiding blocks instead of initiating them. .”

There's plenty of times, even in open field, it's better to make a hit on a blocker than get taken out by that blocker.

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Originally Posted by over the mountain

"Sunday Night Football" analyst Rodney Harrison said: "I don't understand. I'm watching and I'm like, go make the tackle. He comes back and he peels back and hits a lineman. This is why this is the worst defense in the league. That's just a selfish play."
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Former Saints linebacker Scott Shanle was one of those players. He tweeted, “just when you thought you have seen it all. I just dont understand what going on… speechless, confused, etc etc”

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“Obviously when you’re playing a screen pass, you want to get to the ball,” Payton said, via Christopher Dabe of the New Orleans Times-Picayune. “And those are some of the mistakes we’re discussing. . . .

“You’ve got to get to the ball. You’ve got to play the ball. Every once in a while there are certain battles, . . . you don’t want to fight a battle if it doesn’t involve getting to the football.”

Someone actually pulled out Rodney Harrison (Coaches validate Harrison's rep as NFL's dirtiest player)
and a Saints player from the team that actually committed the sins that would become Bounty-gate? Really?

And no, I am not saying that they have no right to change their tune now. I am saying that both these player's careers actually invalidate what you quoted above. The Patriots won with Harrison, and some of Shantes teammates, maybe even himself, GOT PAID BOUNTIES for actual dirty hits that had nothing to do with the play in progress.

SMH.

edit: TLDR - It's either OK to make a hit trailing a runner or it's not. Let's not try to have it both ways.