And Metcalf?
You all have some “special’’ opinions.
And you have "special" reading comprehension. Florio failed to mention Metcalf in his article, but one of us has said
in this thread...
And similarly, if the play was dead when Metcalf shoved Witherspoon, I would support an ejection.
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How would you have felt about long
suspensions for Aaron Donald for just
some of his
very-outside-the-rules violence over the years? He's choked players or attacked their throats on
several occasions, put his helmet back on after the game to go over and attack an opposing offensive lineman, shoved quarterbacks on end-of-game victory kneeldowns, used multiple helmets to attempt to injure Bengals players
in a preseason joint practice, and has always appeared to think opposing players' facemasks are handles for him to grab and twist. Dirtiest player in the NFL, and that goes back to before Burfict's exit from the league. The main difference between Burfict and Donald is that the NFL and the NFL-broadcasting media chose to minimize Donald's filthy, filthy transgressions and make a big deal out of Burfict's. I want to be clear that I'm not defending Burfict. If anything, the league should have been much harsher with Burfict, but my point is that Donald is
at least as bad as Burfict, and so the league should not have stopped at
sometimes fining Donald for acting like he's in a to-the-death cage match both during and completely outside on-the-field plays in the NFL. Donald is at a Jack "The Assassin" Tatum level of dirtiness. Donald would have been a favorite of Raiders fans that openly admired dirty play if he'd been on those Raiders teams of the '70s. There's no excuse for any Donald apologist in the 2010s and 2020s, including the NFL front office and the Rams front office.