Football Villains
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Actually, Hardy was in the NEP camp briefly, back in the Stone Age. Towards the end of his career, obviously.
Pollard always struck me as an accidental villain as opposed to a real one.
The Brady play was legal at the time; Wilfork did something similar to JP Losman the prior season.. He never even touched Welker; he was literally just standing there. And he got tangled up making a play on a pass to Gronk causing Gronk to sprain his ankle. None of those plays was particularly dirty, although the rules were changed slightly after the Brady play.
Tatum, on the other hand, deserves all the shit he gets. Not only for the play itself, but for being a total asshole about it afterwards.
The Brady play was legal at the time; Wilfork did something similar to JP Losman the prior season.. He never even touched Welker; he was literally just standing there. And he got tangled up making a play on a pass to Gronk causing Gronk to sprain his ankle. None of those plays was particularly dirty, although the rules were changed slightly after the Brady play.
Tatum, on the other hand, deserves all the shit he gets. Not only for the play itself, but for being a total asshole about it afterwards.
Pollard - head to head shot against Ridley during the playoff game, knocking Ridley out, causing a fumble. The Pats never recovered. It must be some freak statistical oddity that Pollard was involved in a bunch of plays like this against the Pats.
Also: https://www.cincinnati.com/story/sports/nfl/bengals/2017/12/05/steelers-bengals-rivalry-has-brought-nfl-rules-changes/924020001/
"2006: The "Carson Palmer rule"
Some call the rule designed to protect quarterbacks' knees the "Tom Brady rule," but it was the "Carson Palmer rule" first.
In the AFC Wild Card matchup between the Bengals and Steelers in January, the Steelers' Kimo von Oelhoffen hit Bengals quarterback Carson Palmer on the second play from scrimmage in the knee on a long pass play, tearing Palmer's ACL.
During the offseason, the NFL's competition committee proposed a rule change in the interest of quarterbacks' safety.
The rule: "A rushing defender is prohibited from forcibly hitting in the knee area or below a passer who has one or both feet on the ground, even if the initial contact is above the knee. It is not a foul if the defender is blocked (or fouled) into the passer and has no opportunity to avoid him.""
Now maybe it was "legal" because he was blocked into Brady. Hard to tell if he was blocked into Brady but clearly he dives at Brady's knee.
"2006: The "Carson Palmer rule"
Some call the rule designed to protect quarterbacks' knees the "Tom Brady rule," but it was the "Carson Palmer rule" first.
In the AFC Wild Card matchup between the Bengals and Steelers in January, the Steelers' Kimo von Oelhoffen hit Bengals quarterback Carson Palmer on the second play from scrimmage in the knee on a long pass play, tearing Palmer's ACL.
During the offseason, the NFL's competition committee proposed a rule change in the interest of quarterbacks' safety.
The rule: "A rushing defender is prohibited from forcibly hitting in the knee area or below a passer who has one or both feet on the ground, even if the initial contact is above the knee. It is not a foul if the defender is blocked (or fouled) into the passer and has no opportunity to avoid him.""
Now maybe it was "legal" because he was blocked into Brady. Hard to tell if he was blocked into Brady but clearly he dives at Brady's knee.
It always bothered me how that rat Mangini got an unironic cameo on The Sopranos.
He wasn’t around long enough to be an arch rival, but Chad Pennington made the Jets pesky for awhile and seemed like a good dude that was hard to hate.
He wasn’t around long enough to be an arch rival, but Chad Pennington made the Jets pesky for awhile and seemed like a good dude that was hard to hate.
The 1963 NFL Championship game. YA Tittle got knocked out of the game by Larry Morris on a helmet shot to his knee. Probably illegal in 1990, never mind 2020. The Giants had a rookie backup that had hardly played all season; and never played in the league after that. They lost, 14-10; and both Bears' TDs were set up by interceptions.