Azeez Al-Shaair suspension, explained: Why NFL banned Texans LB for 3 games

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Originally Posted by wazu

He ended up past it. They would mark him down where he started, I get that. I also would expect some part of his brain was conflicted by the fact that Azeez was screaming towards him. Again, it's a bang-bang play and a lot of trying to judge intent and how much time it takes to process and react to everything. If the NFL wants to just send a message, then suspend 1 game. Whether that's justice or not it at least sends a message to NFL defenders not to **** with QBs, which seems to be the goal of all these rules.

They clearly said that the suspension was escalated because he wouldn't shut up and get off the field once he was tossed from the game and instead kept going after the Jags players. He didn't get 3 games for the hit alone.

Even so, I personally expect they'll drop it to 2 games on appeal.