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Burfict suspended for hit on Antonio Brown (https://chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=297475)

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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut (Post 12019837)

Yup.

It wasn't just the hit, it was a very checkered history for Burfict that put him out this long.

I'm not sure I'd have been okay with even a single game had he not been dinged in the past but once guys have a clear history of being cheap-shot artists, all bets are off.

Honestly, the league could've tossed him for 8 and I wouldn't have given a ****. Remorseless and repeat headhunters are awful for the health of the league both for the immediate future and in the long-term.

The more times guys like Antonio Brown hit the turf limp, the more mothers will hand their kids a basketball or a baseball and the less talent we'll have in the game. I'm all for giving a 1-time get out of jail free card, but dropping the hammer on Burfict doesn't bother me a bit.

Yup. Same here.

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Originally Posted by Chief Northman (Post 12019861)

No offense but that's bullshit. Watch the replay in slow motion. Shazier drops his head down as to initiate contact with the top of his helmet. You are taught in Pop Warner to never do this because of the danger it presents to both the tackler and the player with the ball. Spearing/launching/targeting (NCAA rule) all apply here AINEC.

If I am recalling the correct play, yeah, he speared the guy. Stupid play that warrants a disciplinary action.

The player's union will appeal that he should get 0 games and the NFL should pay him a bonus for hurting his shoulder on Brown's face.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The <a href="https://twitter.com/NFL">@NFL</a> will also weigh potential fines for other participants in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Bengals?src=hash">#Bengals</a>-<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Steelers?src=hash">#Steelers</a>. That includes assistants Joey Porter & Mike Munchak</p>— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapSheet/status/686711790571368449">January 12, 2016</a></blockquote>
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So if he would have broke his neck and killed him, should he have been charged with murder? I'm not sure he shouldn't be banned outright.

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Originally Posted by Chief Northman (Post 12019861)

His head snapped back, too.

that rule is there for a reason.

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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut (Post 12019857)

I'm also not going to shed a tear for Pittsburgh.

James Harrison is probably the reason these rules exist. If there was a more blatant headhunter in the league over the last decade, I damn sure don't recall him.

Live by the sword, assholes...

Oh absolutely. I won't shed a single tear. Spot on about Harrison. Joey Porter needs to sit his ass on the sidelines all game.

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Originally Posted by Vietnam58 (Post 12019790)

thats a really horrible and unfair punishment. .

He is basically being punished for the behavior of the Bengals team. . that hit doesnt deserve a 3 game suspension . .

He went after the head. You can break someones neck doing that.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com...injuring-sack/

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As if Bengals linebacker Vontaze Burfict didn’t have enough stuff to worry about after last night’s game against the Steelers, here’s another.

Video has emerged online of Burfict deftly driving his knee into the right shoulder of Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, after Burfict sacked him onto it.

Burfict’s illegal hit on receiver Antonio Brown already will be reviewed by the league office, and given Burfict’s history he could be suspended to start the 2016 season.

Regardless of whether he’s specifically disciplined for giving Ben the business after Ben was already on the ground, Burfict’s behavior won’t win him any brownie points at Park Avenue.

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Prior to Saturday night’s game between the Steelers and Bengals, it wasn’t publicly known that Bengals linebacker Vontaze Burfict had drawn a $50,000 for an illegal hit on Ravens tight end Maxx Williams during a Week 17 game. Privately, however, Burfict knew. And the Bengals surely knew.

But Burfict nevertheless was out of control again only six days later, giving Ben Roethlisberger the business after a sack that injured his shoulder and taking a shot at the head of receiver Antonio Brown, at a time when Burfict knew or should have known that the football had flown by Brown incomplete.

The announcement regarding Burfict’s three-game suspension doesn’t mention the apparent cheap shot on Roethlisberger, focusing instead on the hit on Brown. Regardless, the magnitude of the previously-unknown fine shows just how important it was for the Bengals to control Burfict.

Apart from the loss of field position that comes with a 15-yard penalty, it’s now clear that Burfict was on deck for a suspension.

The real question is whether the NFL would have imposed the suspension if the Bengals had won the game. Given Burfict’s history, he could have been suspended for the wild-card game, but the league opted not to try to make a suspension for a playoff game stick. (Last year, the league tried to impose a one-game suspension for a playoff game on Lions defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh; the suspension was overturned on appeal.)

Coach Marvin Lewis came under fire for the Burfict-and-Pacman dumb-and-dumber maneuver that handed the Steelers a playoff win. The fact that the Bengals knew Burfict was one illegal play away from a suspension makes the whole thing even dumberer.

If owner Mike Brown didn’t know that Burfict had been fined $50,000 for his Week 17 antics, could that change his reported inclination to keep Lewis in place for a 14th season? In theory, yes. As a practical matter, however, Brown realizes what Lewis has accomplished over the last 13 years, taking one of the most downtrodden franchises in the league to seven playoff appearances, including a whopping five in a row.

Shock collar needed to control the beast.

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Originally Posted by OnTheWarpath58 (Post 12019931)

Wow. Shouldn't be able to play in the NFL after that stuff.

This guy is obviously a piece of shit, but more generally, with the new concussion protocol, headhunting should carry some stiff penalties especially in the playoffs. When "win or go home" comes into play, its gotta be tempting to ding the opponents best player in the head and (at a minimum) have him get checked out on the sidelines for the rest of the quarter.

Well deserved suspension, but the Steelers are just as bad if not worse as the Bungles in the dirty play department over the years and it's encouraged by their coaches.

Everyone in the media is ragging on Lewis for not controlling his players (deservedly so), but at least you don't see anyone on his staff pulling guys hair and trying to instigate fights. Let's not forget when Tomlin himself purposefully tried to trip someone running past him on the sideline a couple years ago. **** the Bengals AND the Steelers.

Does Joey Porter get suspended? Its sounds like he instigated the Pac Man stuff.

I imagine Antonio Brown has already been ruled out for Sunday's game? Correct?