James Harrison

Fighting and illegal hits are seperate issues and should be treated as such.

What about Seymour? Is that fighting or an illegal "hit?" Because the saying says it takes two to fight but that was clearly a punch.

Lets fine everyone on every down.
Lets make them all wear 747 inner tubes.
Lets play two hand touch.

Anytime you even touch a QB's head it's going to draw a flag, simple as that.

The call on Collie's hit was just an example of the refs being instructed to throw the flag on anything questionable and sort it out after. It definitely wasn't an illegal hit and they admitted it after, but they are going to err on the side of caution every time.

Yeah but there was no intent and it doesn't hurt the QB one bit if a hand hits his helmet. These guys have got to start using simple common sense.

^ Then you're asking officials to make judgement calls, not a good road to go down. A rule has to be called by the letter of the rule.

I have Zero sympathy for Big Ben getting clocked by Seymour. Lets not forget this is the dude who uses his power to harrass/abuse girls in the girls bathrooms. A kid I used to play poker with went to Miami of OH and said Ben walked in one day saw that they had named a sandwhich after him and demanded they take it down. He is a premadona and got what he deserved for talking trash to a bigger man. Also did you notice how his team mates didnt do much in terms of retaliation? Imagine if that happened elsewhere? I guarantee you 90% of the OLs in this league would have pounded any Defensive player who smacked their QB like that.

As for Harrison he is an extremely aggressive player and yes he is probably being watch a lot more closely than other players but they are watching him like that because he has knocked out more players than anyone else recently. The league is serious about head injuries now and he is going to have to adjust his style to continue to be effective.

After saying all that though I agree that someone needs to have some power to balance goodell he is trying to run roughshod over the players too much