(01-27-2018, 03:07 PM)DragonFury Wrote: Oh for god sake, you lot clearly have no idea what you're talking about. You're all talking about intention and crown of the helmet when neither of those things are at all relevant to the penalty or the fine. The rules are very clear: if you hit a defenseless receiver helmet to helmet you get flagged and you get fined. The CBA even stipulates the exact amount of the fine. It doesn't matter that Church didn't intent to hit Gronkowski helmet to helmet or that he didn't lead with the crown of the helmet, what matter is that Church's helmet hit Gronkowski's helmet while Gronkowski was clearly still a defenseless receiver.

Oh for god's sake- shut up about it already. This is football and stuff happens unintentionally when you have guys hitting each other and the rules in place don't account for that at all. That doesn't mean a guy has to be fined for it. If the NFL feels compelled to do something about it then they can give him a warning. As it is they completely overlooked other players who intentionally led with their helmets which makes this even more asinine. 

I didn't like the hit either because I never like to see a guy get hurt, but to penalize Church and not others is straight up wrong.

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