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Raiders LB Vontaze Burfiict suspended for season


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29 minutes ago, ILoveTheVikings said:

Terrible person. This wasn't even like a bang bang over in an instant type of play where he might have unintentionally hit the guy in the head. He was so far away that he KNEW what he was doing. 

Given the guys history you KNOW he isn't going to change how he plays. Might as well nip this in the butt so it wont happen again and ban him for life. 

Are you talking about Barnett or Burfict?  Doyle was in the process of getting up, the whistle had not blown, and Burfict was the first Raiders player to touch him.  Of course it was not a bang bang play.  The play was still happening.  What good does it do to two hand touch a player who has his knees off the ground already.  I do not want to hear about lowering his strike path because he already had to to make the hit.  Doyle was so low that Joyner hit him in the head almost at the same time.

Difference between Barnett, Jones, and Burfict is that Burfict is the initial tackler.  Barnett and Jones came in to clean up a defenseless player that were pretty much stopped already.

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3 minutes ago, drfrey13 said:

Are you talking about Barnett or Burfict?  Doyle was in the process of getting up, the whistle had not blown, and Burfict was the first Raiders player to touch him.  Of course it was not a bang bang play.  The play was still happening.  What good does it do to two hand touch a player who has his knees off the ground already.  I do not want to hear about lowering his strike path because he already had to to make the hit.  Doyle was so low that Joyner hit him in the head almost at the same time.

Difference between Barnett, Jones, and Burfict is that Burfict is the initial tackler.  Barnett and Jones came in to clean up a defenseless player that were pretty much stopped already.

Burfict, sorry if that wasn't clear.

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2 minutes ago, ILoveTheVikings said:

Burfict, sorry if that wasn't clear.

I was being sarcastic.  Burfict deserves a fine and 2 game suspension but the Barnett hit was close to career ending and possibly life threatening.  Even with history the Barnett hit should be treated with a much harsher penalty.  I would put the Barnett hit as worse then any single thing Burfict has done.

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3 minutes ago, pnies20 said:

That’s all the Steelers used to do and their fans loved it and they got away with it

 

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that was football back then, steelers were only one of 32 teams or 28 teams or whatever the league had back then that made such hits.  Most teams had a few players that hit somewhat like this often. QB's actually were probably the most targeted, but also WR's going over the middle meeting up with the FS, always ended in some serious contact.  

 

 

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