Cleveland Clown suspended for year.
November 15th, 2019 at 12:53 PM ^
Celebrate 100 years of the NFL.
November 15th, 2019 at 12:56 PM ^
"Cleveland Clown"?
Hmmmm....
November 15th, 2019 at 1:03 PM ^
Time to also point out the hypocrisy of those calling for Garrett to be nothing less than booted from the league and jailed, yet who still defend a league who wouldn't think of a similar punishment for a player who punched their girlfriend.
November 15th, 2019 at 1:27 PM ^
While I mostly agree with your overall point, there's a huge difference.
If I attack a random dude in my off hours and get in trouble with the law, it may affect my standing at my job, but it's not an automatic firing, nor should it be.
If I smash a coworker over the head with my phone during office hours, I'm immediately tossed permanently.
November 15th, 2019 at 2:42 PM ^
Except the NFL has shown an inconsistent, yet attentive opinion on what constitutes acceptable behavior off-field. "Protect the Shield" means one thing if you like weed or drive drunk, and something else entirely if you drag a woman out of an elevator by her hair.
November 15th, 2019 at 2:42 PM ^
Count on Bando to always bring in a social justice angle.
November 15th, 2019 at 4:31 PM ^
It's legitimate
November 15th, 2019 at 1:03 PM ^
This thread could be taking place on any board in this country, and that's dismaying. Zero insight, repetitive cliches, and a buncha cusswords. OP doesn't even bother to state the topic.
November 15th, 2019 at 1:13 PM ^
Anyone talking about Rudolph initiating is being ignorant (maybe willfully so) of the context of that play. THERE WERE 5 SECONDS LEFT. Garrett had no business tackling Rudolph like that.
None. Zero. It was a garbage time play to run the clock out. It was taking a knee without going through that specific process. Garrett flipped out, probably felt disrpekted, and the rest is history.
And there is a history of charging athletes with crimes for using weaponry on the playing surface. Please Google McSorley and Ciccarelli of NHL infamy if you need a refresher.
November 15th, 2019 at 1:21 PM ^
That's why I agree with suspending the coaches and refs, they let that game get out of hand after the ejection for helmet to helmet hit. JUST TAKE THE KNEE AND GTFO!
November 15th, 2019 at 2:06 PM ^
This is such bullshit. If it was garbage time then why was Pittsburgh still throwing the ball? You expect Garrett to just not rush the passer? The hit that started the whole thing wasn’t even late. You could argue that he held on well after the whistle but the takedown wasn’t violent at all. At worst that’s a roughing the passer penalty, one that wasn’t even called IN THE GAME by officials who have been super flag happy when it comes to calling RTP. I keep seeing people say the Garrett slammed him to the ground which is just not true. Garrett clearly got what he deserved for taking it to the level he did but Rudolph is not innocent at all in this.
November 15th, 2019 at 3:11 PM ^
Read my post below... how many times did Rudolph pursue revenge? He had at LEAST 2x to walk away from the situation and chose to antagonize even more. Yup probably shouldn't have been tackled, oh well it's football... but it's not like he was raped or molested in the backfield.
Garret = WRONG
Rudolph = Bitch that got pistol whipped with a helmet (cry more)
November 15th, 2019 at 1:25 PM ^
What a completely selfish and thoughtless act on his part. Cleveland is fighting to make the playoffs this year and they have a shot (can't believe I'm typing those words). He's screwed his teammates over for the rest of the season. They've still got to face Pittsburgh and Baltimore once more, with Pittsburgh being on the road (can't possibly imagine that being a pleasant welcome from Pittsburgh fans) and at 4-6 with two teams in front of them in the standings, there really is no margin for error anymore.
November 15th, 2019 at 1:42 PM ^
I saw nothing wrong with it
November 15th, 2019 at 1:47 PM ^
Thanks for taking the time from your job at the NCAA Compliance Office to comment.
November 15th, 2019 at 2:00 PM ^
Eh-- the only part that hit him was the padded part at the bottom/back of the helmet and Rudolph definitely was asking for it by kicking in the genital region. Shit was bad all around. That past helmet swing on Incognito only netted the aggressor 2 preseason games and 1 regular season game. People overreacting too much.
November 15th, 2019 at 2:02 PM ^
His behavior was straight out of the Ron Artest playbook.
November 15th, 2019 at 2:10 PM ^
He should be prosecuted for assault...if he was at my business and swung at someone like that with an implement he would be immediately fired and information turned over to the police.
FELONY ASSAULT
November 15th, 2019 at 2:46 PM ^
To be fair, if I executed a legal tackle at my place of business, or even threw a football at someone, I would be fired. Professional football doesn’t compare to your job in any way. Unless of course, you are a professional football player.
November 15th, 2019 at 2:58 PM ^
We're not talking a tackle here...you saw the video of him swinging a hard helmet at a player's head or nah? Pretty sure that's somewhere in the range of intent to do bodily harm or something in the rest of the universe
November 15th, 2019 at 2:35 PM ^
I won't defend MG for what he did and he deserves the punishment he's getting. That said, I wouldn't call him a clown (ala Antonio Brown). He's actually a pretty intelligent, thoughtful person. He'll have a lot of time to think and hopefully figure out what type of person he wants to be on the field.
November 15th, 2019 at 3:00 PM ^
That's what was so shocking about it, that it was him of all people. The guy is essentially just big nerd, everybody loves him.
November 15th, 2019 at 8:23 PM ^
Roid rage isn’t imaginary.
November 15th, 2019 at 2:36 PM ^
Wow some of you folks are real lemmings, and just echo every narrative the media wants you to see. Garret, yeah in the wrong clearly but...
Garret comes up for a tackle and doesn't necessarily see the ball being dumped... or maybe he did and was being overly aggressive. Rudolph gets taken to the carpet (slowly as he lumbers over like a big fuckin oaf) gets a little pissy and escalates the take down by pulling on Garret's helmet and trying to rip it off, probably talkin shit down there too. Garret escalates even further by ripping off Rudolph's helmet. Rudolph escalates further by pursuing Garret. Garret escalates yet again by helmet whipping Rudolph (bitch just got pistol whipped with a helmet lmao).
Yeah Garret did the most dirty thing here, but holy shit Rudolph was pissy as fuck; can understand why, as he just got bitch slapped by the worst team in the NFL.
November 15th, 2019 at 3:14 PM ^
Thanks...much appreciated.
November 15th, 2019 at 4:09 PM ^
Rudolph was pissy that’s a good word for him. And you forgot to mention the dick kick. Imagine being such a large human as Rudolph and still such a pussy.
November 15th, 2019 at 2:39 PM ^
This incident has caused everyone to lose their marbles over here. Is it bad that I am enjoying the show?
November 15th, 2019 at 3:24 PM ^
Myles Garrett should be done with football. Intentional blunt force trauma to the head. We could have witnessed manslaughter on live TV. I hope Rudolph presses charges.
November 15th, 2019 at 3:50 PM ^
So are we charging pitchers with battery when they intentionally bean someone from now on?
November 15th, 2019 at 3:55 PM ^
Done with football is a bit extreme. Now if he'd knocked Rudolph out and put him in a coma or worse, then you may have a case. But guys have done, in my opinion, far worse in this league and still didn't get banned. Look at Greg Hardy. Beat the shit out of his girlfriend and still managed to get a ten game suspension reduced to four games. He's out of the league now, but still, the punishment came down and it still wasn't a banishment.
Garrett should be punished, but I think the punishment fits the crime here. He'll have a lot of time to reflect on what he did.
November 15th, 2019 at 4:03 PM ^
I don't know why but this reminds me of that stat Happy Gilmore had. "I was the only guy to ever take off my skate and try to stab somebody with it."
November 15th, 2019 at 6:03 PM ^
Garrett is innocent and was just playing the game the right way. --Hanson Brothers
November 15th, 2019 at 6:07 PM ^
Who cares what Rudolph did? If this thing ends with some helmet pulling on both sides there area few personal foul penalties assessed and everyone goes home.
The issue is Garrett tried to BRAIN Rudolph with his own helmet. It's irrelevant that he didn't connect with him harder. He swung the helmet at him with an intent to seriously injure him, and that deserves every game of the suspension that he is getting.
Doesn't matter that Rudolph may have grabbed Garrett's helmet. That's a personal foul and move on. Garrett took a reasonably minor issue and turned it into a major incident.
November 16th, 2019 at 9:00 AM ^
If you watch the play, it’s not tough to argue that after MG got the helmet off he was done “acting violently” towards Rudolph.. or in your words, he was “moving on.” He kept his eye on Rudolph and saw Rudolph kept charging him AND THEN adjusted his body to swing at him.
What MG did was ridiculous. But let’s not act like Rudolph was innocent and we need to overlook his part in this whole incident.
November 16th, 2019 at 12:33 AM ^
suspension makes sense, could have been much worse.
that said, the qb took the shot to the head and just was like "hey ref did you see that?"
honestly, the qb was kind of a bitch (pulling at the guy's helmet and all) but shouldn't go swinging helmets around at people's heads