What I have said to them, to the best of my ability, is that, though if I had a dog in this fight, it would be Green Bay, there are too many other options in play to even consider it.
Two weeks into the preseason, a dirty cheap shot may just have removed a THIRD NFC pre-option from play.
We have Dallas out with all the suspensions.
We have Seattle out with the Kaepernick support and the Sherman call for a player's strike after the end of the current CBA.
So I was beginning to think the next in line would be the New York Giants, if they could keep Odell Beckham Jr. in line...
... and then this happens tonight against the Browns.
(From ESPN Senior Writer Don Van Natta Jr.'s Twitter and tonight's ESPN game...)
Helmet AND shoulder into the knee, causing the leg to go completely awkwardly and land terribly. Even though he collapsed in pain outside the locker room, it now appears it's an ankle sprain that doesn't appear, as of now, to be that serious.If you do this in a pre-season game, you should be suspended for the ENTIRE REGULAR SEASON. pic.twitter.com/f67pxykqqB— Don Van Natta Jr. (@DVNJr) August 22, 2017
Complete cheap shot, and, because of that, completely acceptable in today's culture of football. So much so that ESPN (completely ignoring the helmet was part of the hit!!!) says the hit was LEGAL!
If I have this right with the correct roster, that is 2nd-year man Briean Boddy-Calhoun with the cheap shot. 2nd left cornerback on the depth chart.
In the "Embrace Debate" culture of ESPN Halftime, I have to side with the one that said the Giants' season flashed before their eyes. To be The Team in the NFC, even if it is to be the Useful Idiots to New England (and ESPECIALLY if it's the Giants for 19-0, after the two previous Giants wins over the Pats), you need someone like a Beckham Jr. and the like. The reality of corporate football.
He should be banned, several games of the regular season. That was a straight take-out shot.
Be interesting to see the league's response.
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