Comments on: Rob Ryan sounds off on T.J. Ward fine, Nate Livings

By: BRownsFanHAAA

BRownsFanHAAA — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 01:13:56 +0000

I agree with thetrucker. What if he hit him so hard in the chest his heart stopped?? Kind of BS how they rule these things. It wouldve been completely legit with a far worse outcome.. If you watch the play..i would hope my player does it again everytime the same exact way. He shouldn’t have been fined or penalized…if he doesn’t hit him with his shoulder near the area of the ball it wouldve been a TD….Florio ur a douche.

By: overkil2

overkil2 — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 10:49:38 +0000

Another Ryan with a big fat mouth. Who’d a thunk it.

By: NE#12

NE#12 — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 09:51:39 +0000

WOW cincibkat I think you just showed how dumb folks from cinci are… It is NOT the southernmost point of Ohio …. Wow just wow cinci really is a cesspool of retardation

By: thetruckerking

thetruckerking — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 04:57:27 +0000

Great, next time hit him low and end his freakin career by blowing out both of his knees. Or better yet, don’t hit him at all so every time a WR gets a look in the endzone it’s an automatic TD. You want to talk about potentially ruining a guys career? Now every time that Ward is in coverage he’s going to be afraid to hit anyone. Throw a flag if you want to but the fine was total BS.
How the hell are you supposed to figure out where you are going to hit a moving target when you have .001 seconds before impact? The initial impact was Ward’s shoulder hitting Shippley’s shoulder. I’m not casting blame on him but Shippley lowered his head into the hit. There was no intent to injure anyone. It’s football. It’s a fast game played by large men and people get hurt once in awhile. Quit trying to legislate the hitting out of the game. It’s the reason we watch. No one wants a kinder gentler NFL.

By: hcountryman

hcountryman — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 00:59:44 +0000

Cleveland = the armpit of the nation.

By: Blackn'Gold

Blackn'Gold — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 00:53:25 +0000

Second, we know it’s not a good thing for Rob Ryan to say publicly that he’s coaching guys up to hit opposing players in the head.
That is not what he said. Don’t you read your own articles? Of course, the referees are never wrong when it come to player safety. As far as the fines go, it is my hope the team will compensate the player for any fines. Discretely, of course.
“If I was a little bit dumber and a little bit blinder, I could be an NFL official.”
Bum Phillips
GO STEELERS!

By: cincybkat

cincybkat — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 22:56:50 +0000

Frank Ryan says:
October 9, 2010 6:04 PM
That makes Cinci the Std infected crotch of Ohio huh ?
Consult a map, my friend. Cincy is the southernmost point of Ohio, so unless you have herpes of the toe – your comment is without merit. Nice try though.

By: if yer not first...

if yer not first... — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 18:41:07 +0000

well – had never really heard him say anything before, now I know. Looks like a big fat classless turd, sounds like a big fat classless turd.

By: Frank Ryan

Frank Ryan — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 18:04:53 +0000

cincybkat says:
October 9, 2010 2:32 PM
Love a guy that talks trash after the game is over. I notice he had nothing to say last year after they were swept by the Bengals. Guess he doesnt know how to handle all this winning thats going on in Cleveland. Good thing for him is that he wont have to worry about getting used to it. The armit of America = Cleveland
That makes Cinci the Std infected crotch of Ohio huh ?

By: Josh Krauss

Josh Krauss — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 17:25:57 +0000

talk about boo hooing, rob ryan take your own advice. After we beat them twice last year you cried about both games about how this or that shouldn’t of happened or how this and that was dirty or whatever. Your guy Ward hit shipley AFTER the ball hit the ground and hit him in the head, head shots on defenseless receivers are illegal read the rules incase you didn’t know. Ya you guys did get us this time, the first time in a couple years and barely at that, if the refs hadn’t called that bogus penalty on ndukwe for personal foul you guys could subtract 7 points from your total. The league did rule that ndukwe’s hit was within the rules of the game and shouldn’t have been flagged, so i don’t know what you all are crying about consider yourselves lucky that the refs through that flag and extended that drive for you guys as they did all game long.

By: Ted_Thompson

Ted_Thompson — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 15:23:51 +0000

what the heck are you even talking about?

By: NE#12

NE#12 — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 15:21:40 +0000

@ETL – uh neither Pitt nor Balt have as many championships as CLE. and don’t give me that per-merger crap… That’s just sore loser talk. Win some more and you can play with the big boys.

By: Lufer

Lufer — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 15:02:35 +0000

# D says: October 9, 2010 2:32 PM
@ETL except when both teams beat you last year and in a large part prevented your team from the playoffs.
ETL, you just got housed. And admit it, the Browns were more than just “gum on your shoe” when they bounced the Stoolers from playoff contention in front of a national TV audience last December.
So now it looks like you have gum on your shoe, and a foot in your mouth.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 14:37:41 +0000

NFL is becoming a sport for women…. and the media is most to blame for it

By: D

Sat, 09 Oct 2010 14:32:47 +0000

@ETL except when both teams beat you last year and in a large part prevented your team from the playoffs.

By: cincybkat

cincybkat — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 14:32:26 +0000

Love a guy that talks trash after the game is over. I notice he had nothing to say last year after they were swept by the Bengals. Guess he doesnt know how to handle all this winning thats going on in Cleveland. Good thing for him is that he wont have to worry about getting used to it. The armit of America = Cleveland

By: poodawg

poodawg — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 14:29:22 +0000

Meanwhile, Mangini, the head coach, already agreed that it was a dirty hit.
I wonder what else Ryan and Mangini disagree on, and if it has anything to do with their 1-3 record.

By: King Kreg

King Kreg — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 14:28:32 +0000

@thegreenlantern
No one claimed it was helmet to helmet, but you’re high if you think he hit his shoulder dude. I am not implying it was malicious at all, but he cracked him right in the head.

By: ETL

ETL — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 14:02:47 +0000

As a steeler fan I must say that the browns and bengals are as important as gum stuck to my shoe. I could care less if they kill each other off.
Ravens are the only other team of any importance.

By: theycallme_iPod

theycallme_iPod — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 13:44:08 +0000

300 pounds? They are closer to 360, IMO

By: theroc5156

theroc5156 — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 13:42:26 +0000

Hey Rob. You may want to coach the defense into actually playing defense. The Bengals moved the ball at will on you. You just got lucky they imploded with a few sucky calls against them.
While I agree that Ward’s hit probably shouldn’t have deserved a fine, shit happens. See you in Cincy.

By: FumbleNuts

FumbleNuts — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 13:37:42 +0000

T.J. Ward can hit like a Mack Truck, let football be played the way it supposed to.

By: huslinone

huslinone — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 13:28:31 +0000

It’s funny because he’s fat

By: Beast Of Eden

Beast Of Eden — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 13:25:29 +0000

The hit was clean. The hit is the epitome of football from a safety’s persepective.
That type of hit is what Ronnie Lott, Steve Atwater, Sean Taylor, and John Lynch all made their hay with.

By: Benny Mendenberger-Ward

Benny Mendenberger-Ward — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 12:54:22 +0000

Four?
How about “for”

By: Frank Ryan

Frank Ryan — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 12:43:32 +0000

Boo Hoo.

By: shaslers

shaslers — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 12:42:54 +0000

Stop trying to justify Ward’s hit with technicalities.
Anyone can look at the play and see that Ward was attempting to launch himself and deliver a head shot on Shipley with his forearm and shoulder — it’s a textbook example of the hitting a defenseless receiver rule.
The rule in question is not helmet to helmet, it’s hitting a defenseless receiver. The fact that Shipley is concussed is proof that a blow to the head happened, regardless of how you parse it. All Ward had to do was plant his shoulder lower, in Shipley’s midsection and we would not be discussing this. It’s why the rule is in place.
If you don’t like the rule, then let’s discuss that, but there is nothing to discuss about whether Ward committed the penalty. It’s the same rule that Ray Lewis was flagged for against the Ochocinco of the Bengals last year, Are You Kidding Me, and after getting flagged, Ray has adjusted his tackling over the middle.
Look at his hit on Dustin Keller in week one. Lewis lowered his shoulder and hit Keller square in the chest, for just as effective a hit without putting Keller out for two weeks with a concussion.
The rule is doing what the league intended, like it or not, so stop whining, Rob Ryan and Browns-backers.

By: brownsfanforlife

brownsfanforlife — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 12:35:17 +0000

Bengals suck

By: JoeSixPack

JoeSixPack — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 12:33:30 +0000

It’s always funny to think of Jabba as having a twin

By: BuckFigBen

BuckFigBen — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 12:10:20 +0000

Love it!!
GO BROWNS!!!