2013 - NFL Playoffs - Page 8

You might want to look at the video again. Pollack wouldn't have been close to hitting the throat or jaw. And launching is a bit of stretch. Now if it was worth it for Pollack to deliver the head butt or not is hard to say. Maybe he felt that Pollack would have put a helmet on the ball. Or probably the likely result is that he just reacted in the .1th of second and what happened happened.

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Originally Posted by dak4n6 

I saw the replays, and Pollard launched leading with the crown of his helmet. Ridley ducked his head as a defensive instinct, otherwise he probably would have been hit in the jaw or throat by the top of Pollard's helmet. I have seen flags and fines for much more dubious h-h contact.

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Originally Posted by x129 

You might want to look at the video again. Pollack wouldn't have been close to hitting the throat or jaw. And launching is a bit of stretch. Now if it was worth it for Pollack to deliver the head butt or not is hard to say. Maybe he felt that Pollack would have put a helmet on the ball. Or probably the likely result is that he just reacted in the .1th of second and what happened happened.

 

 

"Launching" isn't a bit of a stretch, it's an enormous stretch.  He was "breaking down" (I haven't played football in a long time, I don't remember if that's the right terminology ... but he was actually slowing down getting ready to react to a cut) to make a tackle.  Ridley brought the lions share of the force to that collision.

Side note:  He (Pollard) gets a lot of flack for having injured a few Patriots in the last few years with dirty play.  I've seen all the replays and I just don't see it.

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Originally Posted by jamo 

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Side note:  He (Pollard) gets a lot of flack for having injured a few Patriots in the last few years with dirty play.  I've seen all the replays and I just don't see it.
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I don't think Pollard gets flak for injuring Patriots by being dirty. The Brady hit wasn't dirty based on the way they called QB hits at the time, he never actually touched Welker, and the tackle on Gronk that injured his ankle was a fluke, not malicious. I think people just remarked at the irony of one guy injuring three (now four) key players.

it's all about being in the right place at the right time 

I thought these two semi-recent viral videos were funny and worth sharing with the football crew here.

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Originally Posted by jamo 

I don't think Pollard gets flak for injuring Patriots by being dirty. The Brady hit wasn't dirty based on the way they called QB hits at the time, he never actually touched Welker, and the tackle on Gronk that injured his ankle was a fluke, not malicious. I think people just remarked at the irony of one guy injuring three (now four) key players.

Fair enough ... I guess I just read too much Bill Simmons ;)

P.S.  Holy Crap Jetfan, I had not seen that bad lip reading video yet ... f-ing hilarious!!!!  (The Key and Peele one is funny too but I had seen that) :)

Thanks for the laughs!

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Originally Posted by jamo 

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Originally Posted by JetFan1983 

The Key and Peele one is a few months old but I still laugh every time. And it's a travesty that we do not yet have a member named "X-Wing @Aliciousness," "EEEE EEEEEEEEE," or "The Player Formerly Known as Mousecop."

I agree. My only criticism of that video is that none of those players said they were from "the U." 

Yeah so Im .44 secs into the NFL Bad Lip Reading and Im crying. STANK! HAMBOWWWW HMMM??

Holy crap...had to shut it off I was LOLing WAY too loud in the office...funniest thing I have seen in a looong time. Thanks JetFan!!!

"Dan Smith, BYU"