Ward's low hit is the exact type of hit that offensive players have complained and worried about. Those type of hits might become more prevalent with the emphasis on taking high hits out of the game.
For a “legal” hit, it looked pretty cheap to me. Of course, as long as it was not a concussion, the NFL is pleased.
I’ll believe it when Gronk is actually out on the field during a game.
> There isn’t a sports fan in New England today who isn’t walking around with a smile on their face.
Nailed it.
With everything that happen last night in the Red Sox game, I almost forget how amazing Brady’s comeback was. What a day for Boston sports fans.
This is a joke, right? This cannot be real.
> “Yeah, I don’t know where those, some of those reports come from,” Brady said. “Obviously I have relationships with every guy that I’ve ever played with, certainly guys at the receiver position are some of my best friends and people that I spent the most time and I’m the closest with. But I don’t make any personnel decisions, I don’t — I can’t talk to coach Belichick about bringing players back. I’ve never been able to control personnel decisions, so that’s — I’m a player like everybody else.
I feel like NFL “insider” reporting has been pretty bad this year. That seems especially true when it comes to the Patriots.
What a cheat. It's ridiculous how baseball players get crushed in the media for this stuff, but a football player just slides on by with a 6 game suspension.
Spear!
This is ridiculous. It is time the NFL offered a Sunday Ticket package for $150 that works on iOS, Roku, Xbox, etc…
I figure a Patriots win is a good way to test my new Editorial posting workflow.
J-E-T-S…JETS, JETS, JETS!!!
I feel sick.
Bummer. I was hoping he would really tear it up at the combine.
Do the Tigers get a trophy for that?
> There is no confusion over Robert Griffin III’s knee — and there never was. The Washington Redskins drafted a healthy, thrilling young player and by the time they got done using him up this season he lurched around like a pirate with a peg leg. Let’s be clear: Griffin is not suffering from an old injury, or from just one injury, either. Anyone with eyes saw the kid hurt his knee three times in the past month, twice in the same playoff game, until a strained ligament turned into a torn one. Every decision maker in the organization, from the rock-headed coach to the renowned surgeon in the silly team pompom cap, is responsible for that.
> …
> There is nothing subtle about the situation. Ample evidence shows Griffin shouldn’t have been out there, more than enough to override the pleas of an impassioned rookie who wanted to play. Griffin’s right knee has already been reconstructed once, in 2009 when he was at Baylor University. The Redskins spent three first-round draft picks to get Griffin in uniform, and he is the most expensive and valuable player they have had in 25 years. Do you think for a moment they didn’t study MRI exams of that knee as if it were Sanskrit before giving up those draft choices for him? You think they don’t know what his knee should look like?
What a great and devastating column by Ms. Jenkins. I was in the “he earned the right to be in” camp, but Ms. Jenkins makes a very compelling argument that they should have pulled him.
Chris Mortensen writing for *ESPN*:
> Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III is undergoing total reconstructive surgery of his right knee early Wednesday morning to repair torn anterior cruciate and lateral collateral ligaments, but he is expected to be ready for the opener of the 2013 NFL regular season, according to team sources familiar with the determination made by orthopedic specialist Dr. James Andrews.
I hope that Griffin’s recovery is like that Adrian Peterson and he comes back to be dominant in 2013.
I love the Jets.
The ruling seems to conflict with itself. He “affirmed Goodell’s findings,” but he has also vacated the suspensions? It will be interesting to see how both sides spin this.
I hate the Giants, mostly for their Super Bowl wins against the Patriots. This makes me hate them even more.
The Jets have made me so happy this year.