I’ve played competitive soccer for 40 years and I am a USMC Reconnaissance Marine …I know , in the moment on both of those plays, the defenders made a consensus decision to inflict injury! Why isn’t the NFLPA investigating why those players tried to mame a fellow player?
Yeah, Marines don’t spell well But both of the plays - the defender was trying to inflict an injury - so where’s the NFLPA investigation?
honestly, your uneventful soccer and marine career are irrelevant. Football, and it is clear you never played, is about inflicting injury. Lessers can try and legislate that, and gripe about it all they want....but that is the game. It always has been, and always will be until the game resembles something so far astray it wont matter. Both hits on Tua were things that happen 1000 times on friday nights across high school games. Those protesting just never felt the fire, which is fine.
You know when you’re trying to hurt some one, they weren’t trying stop a third down, they were trying to hurt someone
Football is NOT about inflicting injury. The headhunting days of the 70’s are over. And unless you actually WATCHED football during the 70’s, don’t even start with a “yea, but”
I've never read something more wrong in my life than this. Maybe 40 years ago, maybe there's still a handful of players out there with that mentality. The intent though was never to inflict injury, even back then. Was it to be tough and intimidate and create fear and pain, sure; I'm with you there. But to go out and inflict injury? That's just ridiculous.
Exactly, sports = play to win, within the rules and mutual respect Combat = inflict pain and death, there are no rules I’ve done both On both Cincinnati plays above they crossed the line, they were trying to inflict injury and didn’t care about the rules- that should be investigated!
The kids legs are spread (he has leverage) and he has full control of Tuas hips with his hand position and leverage.. and then decides to whiplash/ suplex Tiua rather than roll him up? That’s a conscious, im gonna use this leverage and position to whiplash Tua! Everybody who’s played and watches the tape knows that’s what’s going through his head ….
Christian got fined b/c he maybe fondled Josh allen in a pile up!? # 98 tried to put Tuas head through the turf!? Yeah I’m conversing with my self again ❤️
That's a natural way of making that tackle around the back, you have to use your leverage. Maybe he put a little more torque on it than he should have, and due to the size difference between him and Tua the whiplash effect was more dramatic, but there was nothing majorly out of the ordinary for that type of tackle. I tackled guys in that same way hundreds of times when I played football.
Hypocrites AND idiots - a bad combination, but that’s what passes for “expert analysis “ on ESPN these days.
At this point, it's like the mob chasing Frankenstein. You know most of them have no idea where they're going or why they holding pitchforks and torches, but since the crowd's moving that way, they're going along with it. Now, the NFLPA is saying that Tua shouldn't have been permitted back in the game or allowed to play on Thursday because of his back, regardless of speculative neurological trauma. They're saying this because they can't answer the question of when somebody should be cleared to play again. What's stupid (and not being discussed) is even if Tua was deactivated to return on Sunday, he still would have suffered the same result on Thursday. I suppose every player who gets pulled from a game for medical reasons should be put on short-term IR. I still believe they're trying to reopen the CTE settlement, which most people believe they settled for far less than they should have gotten.
