I expect the league (and don’t just say Goodell because he doesn’t pick and choose who gets fined – there is a team of people who do that for him) to make an example out of this guy.

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Did you miss the debate during CBA negotiations where Goodell won the right to be sole arbiter of these issues?

Soooo sick of listening to this crap….here’s how it works – it’s a cheap shot if your guy took the hit and hard nosed football if your guy layed the hit!!

When it is truly a cheap shot EVERYONE agrees and no one denies it.
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Don’t come here much, do you?

However, he CLEARLY lowered his head and CLEARLY hit the WR directly in the face mask with the crown of his helmet. No one ever tackles with their head up any more. If he tackled with his head up he would have actually hit him shoulder to shoulder like he intended. He wouldn’t have gotten the “sportscenter” highlight reel hit either.

I expect the league (and don’t just say Goodell because he doesn’t pick and choose who gets fined – there is a team of people who do that for him) to make an example out of this guy. This is exactly the type of hit they’re trying to do away with.

He came full speed from the middle of the field, head up and looking at the ball. When he saw he couldn’t get the ball, it was time to separate the WR from the ball, which hit did with a legal shoulder-to-chest hit. He led with the shoulder, not the head. There is no rule stating that incidental contact helmet-to-helmet is a penalty, just leading with the head.

Shoulder hits chest, WR’s head snaps forward and hits the DB’s helmet.

I love the announcer at the end “In this situation, you gotta aim lower…” Ummm about 5 years ago, wasn’t a low blow to an elevated WR considered the dirtiest play in the book. Many WR’s have said they would rather get hit high than low.

Ever notice there seems to be a direct correlation between the amount of time a player spends laying on the field, and the amount of outrage generated by the play? Despite this being a clean, hard hit, Moore will pay a huge fine because it took 10 minutes to remove Jones from the field.

I’m not some blood thirsty Roman citizen, eager to see a guy killed on the field, but I also understand that a 10th of a second is not enough time to devise a carefully laid plan about how you’re going to hit a guy.

And frankly, I’ll take the occasional 15 yard penalty if it means the Broncos secondary is going to be a bit more intimidating this year.

No one wants to see players hurt or concussed, but this is a contact sport and it will happen. Both Johnson and the refs reacted to the result of the hit rather than the technique of the hit. That’s why the NFL needs automatic booth review. It doesn’t slow down college games, so it shouldn’t slow down NFL action. And it’s more objective than going off half-c*cked because they see a receiver go down. I’m sure Goodell will fine the hit, but he’ll just be playing up to the public outrage rather than rationally assessing the hit. I doubt he’s capable of rationally assessing a hit.

Watch the first 20 seconds of the play in real time, and from the moment that the ball hits the guys hands, and the moment the player hits him is less than a second. That’s less than a second to make the decision how and where you’re going to try to make a play on a moving target running through the air. Injuries are an unfortunate part of a collision sport, I believe he wasn’t hitting the guy with intent to injure.

“EJ says: Aug 21, 2011 3:52 PM

But Moore insists that he was just trying to hit Jones as the ball arrived so that Jones couldn’t catch it.

Complete utter BS. In order for that to happen you have to hit the receiver as he is touching the ball, not a full second after he has caught it.

Insist all you want, everyone knows you were trying to knock the sh-t out of him.”

Well, along those lines — I think Goodell should be the face of the “Low T” campaign.

“Low T” is what some enterprise has dubbed the Low Testosterone syndrome —- and no one has a more acute case of Low T than Goodell.

If you want to make an omellette, one has to break some eggs.

That’s all Moore did. He played good (actually no, it was GREAT) football. Hate the Donks – but huge credit to Moore on that play. Sweet pop.

The marshmallow pansy-assers like Goodell should NOT have anything to do with our game. It is not meant for them. Chumps like that should have their wife pour them a glass of White Zin (out of a box) so they can enjoy a game of Chutes and Ladders with their children while Home Alone VII airs off in the background. That’s their speed.

Football is not meant for everyone. Go the $@&!^ away if it fries your circuits, wuss-bag losers.

ROGER GOODELL IS A SISSY!!!

Did launch himself however which I think is illegal now. Don’t think he was headhunting out there. Just trying to make a play.