James Harrison and the "Bounty Rule"

After reading the story about the Saints supposedly paying people to knock guys out I realized it was possible for me to love James Harrison even more! The reason is because he will do it for free! But really maybe with this happening it can give emperor goodell someone else to single out and leave our guys alone to knock people out within the rules. What do you guys think?

 

I think that Ed Reed, Terrel Suggs and several other Rats players should have been suspended for it 2 seasons ago but with Good ole Roger there was no discipline. Actually, they should have been suspended for the game that they publically put a bounty on Hines.

 

Not sure what you're talking about (the only nfl news I stay up on is Steeler's news) do you have a link you could post?

 

What do we think about what?

 

Well the story is on nfl.com. What I was wondering was if anyone thought this story would take some of Goodell's attention from hating on us and go on to harassing the saints instead. Apparently their DC was paying people $50,000 to cause people to get carted off. Apparently this was known about for a while and yet all the media and the emperor wanted to do was bash and fine and suspend our guys while other teams basically had hitmen on their roster.

 

So Goodell can't hate the Steelers at the same time he punishes the Saints if they did something wrong?

This has nothing to do with the Steelers.

 

i don't know scott, somehow harrison will get suspended for it.

 

Harrison just got fined for that!

 

We have the official hitman!

 

We don't need No STINKING bounty rule to encourage hard hitting! It just comes naturally to us.

 

Ditto! You have on record guys saying they were trying to take Steelers out and doing so with serious injuries. Suggs actually saying there was a bounty, then all the retractions and a helmet to helmet hit that would have garnered suspension to JH even without the statements saying they were going to do it!

 

To me this is a non-issue. I'm sure other teams than the Saints do this, and coming down hard on them won't make players play less aggressive.

On ESPN SportsReporters they said this should be on par with Spygate and illegal substance offenses. To me that is crazy. Something really devious would have had to happen for that to happen, where they break a QB's arm or finger while under a dogpile or something.

 

no its not you shouldnt be out there trying to hurt someone on the field

 

Really? So I guess you disagree with Harrison saying he is trying to hurt players? Come on... a big part of playing defense is intimidation and one of the best ways to intimidate an offensive players is by drilling him.

 

I'm guessing he meant "injure". But yeah hurting is good injuring is not

 

whoah, this is football. Hitting a guy really hard is not dirty.

Like a said, purposefully doing something devious like hurting a guy in a dog pile (breaking an arm/finger, or twisting an ankle) is wrong...but I'm not sure there is evidence that they did this?

 

Sure there is some wrong doing, but I only expect a slap on the wrist. To put this on the level of Spygate or Illegal substance suspensions like some sports analyst are saying is crazy.

Where do you stop with the fines as well, its possible over half the league is doing this stuff.

Do you fine over half the league?

 

This has been going on for as long as football has been around, and not just at the pro level either. It's part of the football culture. The only reason it's become a big deal now is because it's a coach being publicly outed as the guy who ran the bounty system. It's one thing if it's players doing it amongst each other, then it is generally ignored, but when it's a coach in an era where player safety is such a hot button issue, then it's a big deal.

 

It will be very interesting to see how the league handle this ,since they swept spygate under the rug; although I think they will lay the hammer down to set an example.

 

like trying to turn Adrian Peterson's ankle all the way around in a pile?
if all those hits on warner and favre in the playoffs were made by James he'd be poorer than Mark Brunnell right now

 

I just think this also goes to show even more that emperor goodell is bound and determined to demonize defense until there flat out is none. I wonder what he would do if o-line coaches were trying to get dudes to try and hurt silverback in a pile? There was actually a story on NFL.COM where James Harrison was tweeting what he thought about this whole thing. He seems to agree with us that Pittsburgh is singled out more than any other team.

 

I don't understand how this shows anything about Goodell considering he hasn't made a statement or handed out discipline? I don't understand the hatred towards Goodell when it comes to this bounty situation? Goodell hasn't even done anything yet, but when he does, clearly it's justified. If he doesn't hand out severe discipline, the league will certainly (and may still) face lawsuits from any player that was injured.

 

You must need a new pair of Steelers glasses.