Cushing calls fans cheering Schaub injury “barbaric”

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Cushing calls fans cheering Schaub injury “barbaric”
Posted by Mike Florio on October 13, 2013, 4:39 PM EDT


During Sunday’s ugly loss by the Texans to the Rams, things got even uglier at Reliant Stadium.

Down went quarterback Matt Schaub with an injury — and up came the cheers from the home fans.

After the game, Texans linebacker Brian Cushing called the fans “barbaric” for their response, via Will Grubb of SportsRadio 610 in Houston.

It’s a strong word from Cushing, especially since cameras caught him and defensive end J.J. Watt yukking it up, Derek Anderson style, while the Texans were trailing 38-6.

Regardless, it’s never appropriate to cheer or celebrate any injury, whether to a member of the home team or the visiting team.

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Originally Posted by Valiant

Hasnt cushing had a fair number of cheap shots on opposing players?

Indeed he has. Coupled with the fact that he's been on PED's since high school ball.

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Originally Posted by -King-

Come on now, they're exactly the same.

Obviously not because it's not plastered all over ESPN

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Is Shaub playing this coming Sunday, anyone know? If he doesn't what name is next in line in Houston to QB?

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Ith barbarithm that ith jutht thickening, dithguthting and thtraight up groth.

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Originally Posted by Simply Red

Is Shaub playing this coming Sunday, anyone know? If he doesn't what name is next in line in Houston to QB?

TJ Yates, I think, who himself threw a pick-six after coming in to replace Schaub.

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Originally Posted by Simply Red

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Texans players sound off on fans cheering Matt Schaub injury

Posted by Mike Florio on October 14, 2013, 10:11 AM EDT
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On Sunday, we mentioned that Texans linebacker*Brian Cushing*called the Houston fans who cheered*Matt Schaub’s leg injury “barbaric.”Other Texans have chimed in, too.

From quotes distributed by the team, left tackleDuane Brown*said, “It’s disgusting.* I don’t want to address them first; I want to address the fans that were there until the end cheering us on into the tunnel.* We appreciate you loyal fans and the fans that stick by us.* For the fans that cheered when he got hurt, that’s disgusting.* You can feel how you want about him as a player, but this is his livelihood and how he provides for his family.* When a man goes down and he is not able to get up, you don’t know what is wrong with him at that point; that could be the last play of his career and for you to applaud at that — I have no words for that.”

“That is just tactless and tasteless,” running back*Arian Foster*said.* “I was extremely heated at that.* They have to go home and look at themselves in the mirror and if they were born to hurt a man, that’s fine.* They can do what they do.* The fans can get emotional.* That is just not how I was brought up.* That is not the kind of man I am.* I’ve got to go home and raise a daughter, and teach her right from wrong.* That is just not something you do.* I don’t care how you feel about a man. You don’t kick him when he is down.”

Receiver*Andre Johnson, who has been with the team every year except its first, agreed.“No class,” Johnson said. “It’s bad when members of the other team are saying that’s messed up that they would do something like that. It just shows no class. It wasn’t all of the fans, but those are the same people when you’re out somewhere with your family and you tell them they can’t have an autograph right now, they are the same people that tell you you’re rude. It’s no class. It just shows what they’re all about. You don’t cheer about anybody being injured. I don’t care who it is. Guys lay their bodies on the line out there on that field. Some guys get injuries and it affects them their whole lives. For them to cheer about something like that, it just shows they have no class.”

“It was ridiculous,” cornerback*Kareem Jackson*said.* “It goes to show at the end of the day who all is with you.* There is nobody but us in this locker room.* Like I said, we are family.* When things are good, they ride the bandwagon with you.* They are step by step with you.* As soon as things get bad, they boo and do all the other stuff.* To be honest, we don’t care about that.* We don’t care about who is booing.* For us as a group, we have to get better as a team.”

“That disappointed me,” defensive end*Antonio Smith*said. “Truly disappointing me. To think our fans that cheer for us don’t have emotions is to be a foolish man. I know that our performance affects them too. It disappointed me that they would cheer when somebody goes down hurt or they would cheer a man’s downfall.”“I don’t think I’ve ever been as disappointed in our fans than at that moment,” guard*Wade Smith*said.* “As far as in the community, giving back to the city, as far as representing an organization the way you want a quarterback to do, for them to cheer at that moment it was extremely disappointing.* That’s all I’ve got to say about that.* Extremely disappointing.”

“It’s disappointing,” defensive end*J.J. Watt*said. “You never ever want anybody to cheer an injury. That’s just unacceptable. I sure hope they don’t truly feel that way. That’s a pretty tough life if you’re cheering for somebody else to get injured. That’s a man with a wife and kids, that’s a man who’s given a lot of effort and a lot of work to this city. I sure hope there weren’t a lot of people cheering. I hope that was a very, very small minority.”“That is disrespectful,” quarterback*T.J. Yates*said. “The guy is laying there on the ground holding his ankle, and the fans are cheering. For all that guy has done for this city and this team, for the fans to be booing him when he is hurt on the ground, straight up disrespectful.”

Cornerback*Jonathan Joseph*was more concise, via Paul Gallant of SportsRadio 610 in Houston:* “They gonna do that,*don’t show the f–k up.”

We like that one the best.* If you don’t have a basic level of respect for the men who take extreme physical risks to entertain you, be entertained at home.

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Originally Posted by Simply Red

Is Shaub playing this coming Sunday, anyone know? If he doesn't what name is next in line in Houston to QB?

MRI this morning. Yates if he doesn't go. Case Keenum is third string.

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Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

Where is Eric Winston when Houston needs him?

Helping out the Cards.

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Originally Posted by Valiant

Hasnt cushing had a fair number of cheap shots on opposing players?

Probably and he will most likely make a comment saying their Defense is way better then our defense.

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Thickening and Dithguthing....

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Maybe they were cheering because TJ Yates was coming in.

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