(12-16-2024, 10:12 AM)Mikey Wrote: After the hit on Grant Dubose, can't wait to hear Ryans blame the WR for getting hurt.

Hey now, I called out Al-Shaair on his illegal hit against Lawrence on this forum and I still consider it an embarrassment.  However watch the Bullock hit on Dubose at full speed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7musRTeVQJY

Now it's not the WRs fault, but I can't see what Bullock was supposed to do, when a receiver is coming at a defender head down on a bang-bang play.  Bullock is tracking the ball, then trying to make a tackle, and Dubose comes in head down.  He doesn't lower his head to target him, if anything he just absorbs the hit and even gets knocked back a little.  From Bullocks angle that's like trying to touch the side of a (6'2" 200lb) bullet that's been fired at you, and I don't know if he could even have avoided his head.  To me this is just the nature of the game of football, and if anyone is to blame it's Tua for throwing that pass.

The result is certainly sad, and I wish Dubose a speedy recovery.  But I don't know what possible rule could protect that receiver that doesn't break the game of football.

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