Mark Barron WILL be fined

He will be fined and should have been penalized........ Ben was in the pocket in a passing posture......... Rule says he cannot make contact Period below the knee!!!

Cajun

 

I agree with you, but I'd be shocked if anything actually came of it.

 

Should have been a penalty - if it was against Brady , they call it.

 

This will be a repeat of the screw up in the 05 playoffs where Troy intercepted it and they screwed up the call. The league will say they got it wrong but in the end nothing more will happen with the exception of a "my bad" by the league

 

Yes, it was a penalty. But does it matter at this point?

 

Tomlin said he "didn't have a problem" with the hit. I don't really understand what he means by that. Like did he think it was "legal" but not malicious or what? Did you hear him say that? I just heard them saying he said it on cooler talk.

 

I'm sure it's something along the lines of "it's football"

 

Actually they said this week that the league sent out a memo telling everyone to shut up about criticizing the refs and other teams. I still think Tomlin would have said what he thought about it regardless though.

 

He literally just said "I didn't" I'm pretty sure when they asked him if he had a problem with the hit. I think that's what they asked him anyway.

 

I think in the terms of a football play it seemed like it wasn't anything big. Barron was trying to make a play and the unfortunate side effect of the hit was Ben possibly having a knee injury. I don't tomlin thought they were trying to injure Ben

 

If he's saying he didn't have a problem with it I think he's implying that it's football, **** happens.

 

Why do we care at this point that he wasn't penalized? We won the game. Who cares if he gets fined, how does that help us get to the playoffs?

 

I totally get what you're saying Ray but even as I watch it over, I just see a guy trying to get to Ben and make a play (sack) while on the ground and not giving up on the play. I could be wrong and you could be right.

 

the player looked like the cousin in BREAKING BAD
he crawled into his legs
ILLEGAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

We can only hope the league will take a look at it, and fairly.

 

To what end? Like Shaner pointed out the game is over and won, nothing to be done for it now.

 

I guess that's why they call it the Tom Beady rule--it only applies if Tom Brady gets hit.

 

For the same reason that James Harrison would get fined in the past up to 5 days after a game was over and done with. Just asking for our same pound of ________. I'm sure Cincy fans would still like to see Kimo get fined and suspended 8 years or so after the fact.

 

Against the rules and a penalty, yes. Dirty? That depends if he did it on purpose. I don't think so. He started stumbling so early, that would be one hell of a plan and one hell of an acting job.

 

Hope he ends up ok, but we have to move on. Vick has to step it up, and we have to run Williams to. Love levon, but Williams can be used to.