QBs aren’t taught to tackle correctly. It’s like none of you have seen Friday Night Lights. We’re just lucky Mac wasn’t injured.
Yeah that’s intentionally dangerous and had no outcome on the play. Suspension. Can’t have that shit in the game.
a guy doesn't have to be seriously injured for a play to be dirty. For example, a DE can annihilate a QB with a super-late hit. Just because the QB doesn't get concussed doesn't make the play any less dirty. So you bringing that up makes no sense
Mac Jones may or may not have intended to hurt Brian Burns on a play that did not result in serious injury.
yeah i don't see how the replay is at all conclusive maybe my computer is broken and i am seeing a different video than everyone else
Even for TMB, this is a whopper of a nothingburger. Some of y’all should probably follow sports more your sensibility like croquet.
Man fuck Bama and all, but it seems like he legitimately thought Burns had the ball. Don't think he goes for the stop that hard otherwise. Actually, no wait. A Patriot? Send him to fucking Guantanamo Bay.
I’m sure being a Bama fan will completely discount this take, but Burns is being a big ole bitch about this. He gets to run full speed into a guy’s blindside and then cries about getting grabbed by the ankles after rearranging the guy’s brains.
That last paragraph is nonsensical. One thing is within the rules and the other is not. Just because you signed up to play a violent game doesn’t mean anything goes
Guys get tackled by trip up all the time; Mac is lying on the ground after a fumble with no idea who has the ball and is trying to make a play; should he just lay there?
If Mac thought that guy had the ball, they're actually both football plays but don't let that get in the way of the narrative
The onus is on him to know who has the ball, yeah. You can’t just tackle a random person because you *think* he *might* have the ball. Even in a play action play, the defenders aren’t driving the RB to the ground, they certainly aren’t grabbing their ankles and using their legs in some sort of D-list wrestling move.
how many other examples are there of QBs just randomly grabbing a defender's leg because they "thought he had the ball"? I can't really remember any.
Especially when the play has clearly moved down the field where all the other players are congregating
it's not even a good excuse. he didn't have the ball. it's like allowing a DE to light up a QB after a handoff because the DE thought that the QB was running play action.
Let he who hasn't grabbed a guy's foot to keep him from getting a fumble during Turkey Bowl cast the first stone.