After getting hit for a 15-yard penalty in Sunday’s 20-10 loss to the Saints, it now appears from all reports that Steelers LB James Harrison could be facing yet more money out of his pocket for the late hit on Drew Brees.
ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported Monday night during the Texans-Colts MNF game that Harrison will be fined for the hit on Brees that resulted in a roughing the passer call.
Harrison was flagged for hitting Brees from behind a count too late after Brees has gotten rid of the ball. While not a helmet-to-helmet hit, the NFL wants to make sure that Brees and the QB’s in the league are protected, and it sounds like Harrison is going to have to once again get yelled at by the league in the form of a fine.
Unreal.
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Sharon
November 1, 2010 at 11:06 pm
That is bull shit! Leave Harrison alone. Pick on a real killer Ravens Ray Lewis.
Wes
November 2, 2010 at 5:12 pm
RAY is a murder and gets no fines! Looks like we are going to TURN HIM LOOSE ON Pretty boy BRADY! Just break him and the nation will pay the fines! Its a JOKE! that the NFL’s BEST DEF PLAYER gets this bullshit week after week!
KICK ASS HARRISON!
Thomas Crowley
November 1, 2010 at 11:22 pm
Hahahahahaha sharon that was like 10 years ago and it was proven ray lewis didn’t commit the crime.
And i wouldn’t be talking you’re quartervack is a rapist and james harrison is a dirty player by the nfl rules now,oh and he had that little domestic incident with his girlfriend a couple years back.
The Tony
November 2, 2010 at 8:20 am
Didn’t Donte Stallworth just recently kill a man?
Wes
November 2, 2010 at 5:14 pm
Its proven? Ray is a HOMO! Harison is the best LB in the GAME! ray ray is an old fat guy! Cant wait to bust up FLACO… Raven SUCK!
Look at the HOLDING ON HARRISON can we get a few flags.. or we are just going to turn him loose on BRADY!
STeelers Rule!
KESHA
November 2, 2010 at 11:32 am
STRAIGHT UP BULLSHIT WTF IS THIS FLAG FOOTBALL
phil
November 2, 2010 at 11:59 am
I don’t understand this… what if the QB faked the pass?
ster
November 2, 2010 at 12:44 pm
Ray Ray was never proven innocent…
He paid off the victims for silence and plead to a LESSER charge. Big difference.
Person dies, Accused of murder, plead to a lesser charge: Goodell walks hand in hand with you.
Person lies, No arrest, no charge, no settlement, no trial = 4 game suspension.
mark
November 2, 2010 at 1:19 pm
This league is starting to really turn me off. I cant say I would ever totally turn my back on the NFL or more importantly, my Steelers, but it is getting to the point of not being the league I grew up with. I guess no one hit the QB late in the 1970’s when I started watching football, or in the 80’s when it started to become the REAL “American Past-time”.These fines and suspensions are getting so arbitrary that it is taking away from the game. You dont have to be a James Harrison fan or a Steeler fan to see that Roger GOD-dell and his minions are taking the reason we watch football away. That is a hard-hitting, excitingly fair game that is supposed to be decided by the teams and not the commissioner and refs. I can make this an unbelievably long post, but I will spare my fellow fans. The rules in place on the field may sometimes have the best intentions, but they are working against the fairness of the game itself. (holdings,pass interference,breaking the plane of the goal,what is a reception, etc.)All the while, GOD-dell and his jurisdiction over just what “Personal conduct” means and his Autocratic means of dishing out punishment,fines and suspensions are destroying the fabric of the league off the field. Fans need to get together, somehow and voice concerns over these issues. One more thing, How come penalties arent reviewable? Just some food for thought, but I have my opinions on that and I can say that my opinion and its foundations would really startle and upset many people.
joe
November 2, 2010 at 3:10 pm
what about the helmet to helmet against Hines????
Thomas Crowley
November 2, 2010 at 3:51 pm
Hey ster i don’t know if you’re smart enough to realize this but goodell wasn’t the commisoner when ray lewis incident happen i’m not sure what you’re point is. And i find it hard to believe nothing happen with ben i mean its 2 times now he’s been accused of rape the last women didn’t even want money”. so you can’t say she’s a goldigger.
And its pretty funny that you say ray lewis hasn’t been proved innocent, i don’t believe ben has been proved innocent in either case.
I love the low intelligence level some of you steeler fans show.
George H
November 2, 2010 at 5:15 pm
“…ray lewis incident happen i’m not sure what you’re point is”– Thomas Crowley
Surprise surprise… Tommy boy doesn’t understand something.
The Tony
November 2, 2010 at 6:05 pm
Why is that the media crushed Ben for his incident but yet the same media glorifies the same behavior in hip hop and other performers? Anyone care to elaborate?
Thomas Crowley
November 2, 2010 at 7:25 pm
No george h its just that ster said goodell suspends walk hand in hand even though he wasn’t the commisoner when it happen.
DrGeorge
November 4, 2010 at 1:24 pm
Mark, your point is well taken. Goodell’s intent is obviously a good one: he wants to reduce injuries and cheap shots. Anyone can accept those as goals. But the rules against helmet-to-helmet contact and late hits, as currently enforced, require subtle judgments that are inconsistent with the speed of the game. The rules are too legalistic. Defensive players are effectively shackled by them. They cannot know when they initiate a tackle whether the result will be deemed fair or foul — either by the refs during the game or by the Commissioner after the game. As a result, those rules and their enforcement are perceived as arbitrary and unfair by fans, many players, and much of the media. That is not good for the game.
Since 1980, there have been many rule changes in the NFL, most of which intentionally disadvantaged the defense and favored the pass in order to promote higher scores. The result is basketball on grass. The new rules cheapened the game. No NFL team plays real football anymore. Consider the Steel Curtain champions of the 1970s and the great defensive legends before that; none of those defenders could have excelled under today’s rules. They were too rough and tough for Goodell’s tastes. Yet, they made the game what it is today.
The NFL is making a mistake in turning the rules into a legal code. That is not the way to improve the game. The NFL can play tackle football, or it can play two-hand touch. But Goodell’s pass-happy, sissy-defense hybrid game is not real football — and the fans are saying so.
mark
November 5, 2010 at 9:32 am
Thanks DrGeorge. I also feel bit vindicated when a star like Troy Polamalu feels the same way I do about GOD-dell and his despotic ways of administering his punishment. I have felt that way for a few years now. I cant remember Pete Rozelle being under this kind of scrutiny? Maybe a board of former coaches/ex-players/former refs should be the ones who handle disciplinary issues on the field?
Brandon
November 4, 2010 at 5:35 pm
GOODELL CAN GO FUCK HIMSELF!!! If they don’t want players to get hurt don’t play the fucking game.
jay
November 29, 2010 at 7:02 pm
After his hit in the Bill’s game, forget fines he should be suspended!