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AJ, possible concussion.

The hit may have been illegal, but I do not believe it was intentional. Aggressive, hard hitting has always been Pollard's style. In the defense of the defender he went for the hit as Andre was falling down, therefore his head was lower at the point of contact than it was at the initiation point of the hit.

By the rules it should have been a penalty, he will be fined. Was it dirty? No. Was it a "Football Play"? Yes.
 
clutch said:
He went for the ball..good clean hit..should not be fined..nice job on AJs part for holding on to the ball..
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If by "good clean hit" you mean forearm to the chops, then yeah, that's it. But since forearm to the chops is against the rules, no matter how much we hate the rule, he's going to be fined. Now, if you're saying there was no forearm to the chops, then you need to check your TV for clarity.
 
When I learned the game of football that hit was perfectly legal. It was still a cheap shot to tag a guy while your teammate was already bring him down, but it was legal. I didn't like Pollard dancing around like a drag queen at the pride parade after the hit in question. I found it ODIOUS and think the Texan DBs need to give 10x worse to the Titan receivers to let it be known to the Titan secondary that you don't (bleep) with AJ without reprocussions.
 
Fico said:
The hit may have been illegal, but I do not believe it was intentional. Aggressive, hard hitting has always been Pollard's style. In the defense of the defender he went for the hit as Andre was falling down, therefore his head was lower at the point of contact than it was at the initiation point of the hit.

By the rules it should have been a penalty, he will be fined. Was it dirty? No. Was it a "Football Play"? Yes.
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:headhurts: Wasn't intentional? When he saw AJ NOT getting up he danced around like a 3:tch. If that hit wasn't intentional Bill doesn't go to strip clubs, I prefer flat-chested blonde women, Cak doesn't read much and Porky & Red Zone are fire breathing liberals.
 
PapaL said:
The call on the field was a LEGAL hit. What we feel and MIGHT be reviewed doesn't matter. The ref that was standing right there called it legal. We can "bellyache" and moan all we want but he didn't get flagged for an illegal hit.
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LMAO!! Because officials never miss anything. They had TWO calls overturned by replay just in that game. Just because it wasn't called doesn't mean jack.
 
Speedy said:
LMAO!! Because officials never miss anything. They had TWO calls overturned by replay just in that game. Just because it wasn't called doesn't mean jack.
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Yup. After week 1 this season there were 4 or 5 fines for unflagged personal fouls.
 
Rey said:
So you want a guy to run full speed towards AJ's big ass and slow down to "push him"?

What game are we playing? Is this football or what? You do know part of hitting a guy hard is trying to jar the ball loose? Kind of hard to do that with a mere push.

If one of our DB's made the same hit on a WR I'd be cheering that. If a DB did to AJ what Kareem did to Wright I'd be waiting for the fine.
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The forearm to the head of AJ, i dont think AJs helmet was holding the ball. Was not a clean legal hit. Atleast the guy KJ hit wasnt already on his way down OUT OF BOUNDS.
 
clutch said:
He went for the ball..good clean hit..
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Someone tell Andre to stop carrying the ball in his ear-hole.


Dread-Head said:
When I learned the game of football that hit was perfectly legal.
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We need to stop thinking like this. We weren't aware of the long term damage these hits cause. We are now. & it's not just for the offensive players.

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This guy laid the wood & suffered the same long-term effects.
 
Dread-Head said:
:headhurts: Wasn't intentional? When he saw AJ NOT getting up he danced around like a 3:tch. If that hit wasn't intentional Bill doesn't go to strip clubs, I prefer flat-chested blonde women, Cak doesn't read much and Porky & Red Zone are fire breathing liberals.
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His dancing had to with the ball coming out. Don't be obtuse.

Pollard had the upmost respect for Andre. Pollards role is that of enforcer, that has been his role every stop in his career. He intentionally tried to knock the crap out or Andre and force him to drop the ball. I do not think he intended to hit him in the head nor do I believe his intent was to injure AJ.
 
Fico said:
His dancing had to with the ball coming out. Don't be obtuse.
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Dj Swearinger celebrated his big hit on Keller. But when he saw the man was hurt, his demeanor changed.

If a rookie can show as much respect for a man he doesn't know, is it too much to ask of a former teammate?
 
thunderkyss said:
Dj Swearinger celebrated his big hit on Keller. But when he saw the man was hurt, his demeanor changed.

If a rookie can show as much respect for a man he doesn't know, is it too much to ask of a former teammate?
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Pollard said he expects to get fined.... Just because he didn't make a public apology to AJ we assume he was happy to injure him.

Pollards hit and the subsequent incompletion were much more important than a meaningless tackle in a preseason game.

Swearinger was probably thinking, man that sucks I just ruined this guys year in meaningless game.

Pollard was probably thinking he just gave his team a pretty good chance to win the game, a game that counted.
 
Pollard is an old-school player in a new-rule league.

That hit was legal - and celebrated on ESPN - when Pollard came into the league.

Now it's illegal.

People claim the league is getting pussified. Tell that to Andre Johnson.

Just because something is illegal does not mean it's going away.
 
Fico said:
Pollard said he expects to get fined.... Just because he didn't make a public apology to AJ we assume he was happy to injure him.

Pollards hit and the subsequent incompletion were much more important than a meaningless tackle in a preseason game.

Swearinger was probably thinking, man that sucks I just ruined this guys year in meaningless game.

Pollard was probably thinking he just gave his team a pretty good chance to win the game, a game that counted.
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It dont matter, when "most" players see an opponent is down the generally stop celebrating.
 
EllisUnit said:
It dont matter, when "most" players see an opponent is down the generally stop celebrating.
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It matters... and its not like he was celebrating non stop from the hit to the locker room.

I am sure once he realized it was more than AJ being shook up he stopped.

The fact is everyone here is speculating, myself included. All I am saying is that there is nothing to suggest there was any mal intent with the hit, other than trying to separate a big strong player from the ball.

If people want to be upset over it that is fine, but everyone of us would have taken the "celebration", fine, even the non-existent penalty if it kept a Titan WR from catching the ball if the rolls were reversed.
 
Fico said:
The fact is everyone here is speculating, myself included. All I am saying is that there is nothing to suggest there was any mal intent with the hit, other than trying to separate a big strong player from the ball.
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It's not about intent. We're saying it's against the rules, should be flagged, should be fined.

Fico said:
If people want to be upset over it that is fine, but everyone of us would have taken the "celebration", fine, even the non-existent penalty if it kept a Titan WR from catching the ball if the rolls were reversed.
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I think we'd all agree it was classless, but it wouldn't get much discussion here, we'd just move on.
 
thunderkyss said:
It's not about intent. We're saying it's against the rules, should be flagged, should be fined.



I think we'd all agree it was classless, but it wouldn't get much discussion here, we'd just move on.
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Exactly the whole point of this is it should of been a penalty
 
clutch said:
He went for the ball..good clean hit..should not be fined..nice job on AJs part for holding on to the ball..
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That was one of the dirtiest hits that I've seen in a long time. The league fined Bernard Pollard $42,000 but I feel he got away with a mere slap on the wrist. I have seen a similar hit in high school football where the kid was paralyzed for life on a similar play. That type of dirty and illegal hit is certainly nothing to sneeze over. I'm glad Andre Johnson is going to be alright and only suffered a mild concussion.
 
thunderkyss said:
It's not about intent. We're saying it's against the rules, should be flagged, should be fined.



I think we'd all agree it was classless, but it wouldn't get much discussion here, we'd just move on.
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I guess that is my disconnect then.

I absolutely think it should be fined, it was, and I think it should have been flagged based on the rules in place.

I do not think it was classless, dirty, or delivered with mal intent. Pollard is a hard hitting player with an old school mentality playing in era with new rules. He gets flagged and fined for hits that deserve it, according to the rules, but lets not act like he is a dirty player like Suh.

I mean KJax is going to be fined for his hit,and he was flagged but I don't think that was "dirty" either.
 
Fico said:
I do not think it was classless, dirty, or delivered with mal intent. Pollard is a hard hitting player with an old school mentality playing in era with new rules. He gets flagged and fined for hits that deserve it, according to the rules, but lets not act like he is a dirty player like Suh.

I mean KJax is going to be fined for his hit,and he was flagged but I don't think that was "dirty" either.
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I don't think the hit was classless. I think the extended celebration was classless. When it was obvious that Aj was laying on the ground motionless, he should have stopped.
 
Bulls on Parade said:
That was one of the dirtiest hits that I've seen in a long time. The league fined Bernard Pollard $42,000 but I feel he got away with a mere slap on the wrist. I have seen a similar hit in high school football where the kid was paralyzed for life on a similar play. That type of dirty and illegal hit is certainly nothing to sneeze over. I'm glad Andre Johnson is going to be alright and only suffered a mild concussion.
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That hit doesn't even make Pollards top ten dirtiest hits list.
 
Yeah, I'm done.

Never figured it'd be a hit on one of our own guys that'd do it, but that was a good football play and he didn't use his helmet. He went in with a shoulder. I'm not trying to make any statements, but it just clicked. Not interested anymore. Plus I can spend my Sundays doing something else which is actually exciting to think about.
 
Rey said:
Yeah, I'm done.

Never figured it'd be a hit on one of our own guys that'd do it, but that was a good football play and he didn't use his helmet. He went in with a shoulder. I'm not trying to make any statements, but it just clicked. Not interested anymore. Plus I can spend my Sundays doing something else which is actually exciting to think about.
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Welcome to the Hotel California..........
 
Bulls on Parade said:
That was one of the dirtiest hits that I've seen in a long time.
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LOL. I'm sure teammates headbutt each other coming out of the tunnel is more violent than that. I thought it was a good football hit but a forearm to the head area is technically illegal and that's what I saw from the replay. No problem with folks crying foul play.

But I don't think that hit was dirty and it wasn't the cause to the concussion. AJ momentum was taking him to the ground hard and he couldn't protect himself because of his focus to catch the ball. IMHO any contact whether it's to the head or body would've cause AJ to slam to the ground and cause an injury.

On his celebration after the play, initially it was about the incompletion, then when he realized AJ hadn't gotten up yet he continued celebrating. Jerk move.
 
klockWork said:
LOL. I'm sure teammates headbutt each other coming out of the tunnel is more violent than that. I thought it was a good football hit but a forearm to the head area is technically illegal and that's what I saw from the replay. No problem with folks crying foul play.
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That's what I saw. He definitely didn't lead with his head but with the shoulder. It would have been a clean and legal hit if he didn't raise his forearm onto AJ's head.

As for AJ, I get a little worried about the thought of him coming back too soon from this. I keep hearing voices in my head, saying "Al Toon"....
 
ziggy29 said:
That's what I saw. He definitely didn't lead with his head but with the shoulder. It would have been a clean and legal hit if he didn't raise his forearm onto AJ's head.

As for AJ, I get a little worried about the thought of him coming back too soon from this. I keep hearing voices in my head, saying "Al Toon"....
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That's how I feel about it. I originally thought it was helmet-to-helmet, but it was his forearm/elbow that got AJ in the side of the helmet. Fact is he couldn't hit any part of AJ, but his helmet anyway, so he shouldn't have even hit him. Mainly, he never should've raised that elbow.

I wouldn't call it blatant, but there should've been a flag, just like on the K-Jax hit.
 
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