Hit Foles just a tad too high.
Yet no flag...NFL...
Originally Posted by cuqui:
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@ByRyanWood: #Packers LB Clay Matthews was fined $17,363 for his first-quarter hit on Rams QB Nick Foles. Roughing the passer, per NFL.
Naughty boy.
They treated Foles like an inflatable pound puppet, put a 5 man train on him, tossed him an expired bus ticket when they were done and told him to scram. And we're talking about roughing the passer fines?!?!?! The GB front 7 should be facing assault and battery charges with solicitation.
I'll close with a query. If I told you you could hit Nick Foles as hard as you wanted for the low, low, low, LOW price of two tenths of one percent of your annual salary, you'd do it right? You'd probably ask for seconds.
On Gurley's big run in the 4th, Nate Palmer went the rong way and got tied up inside - ouch
On another of Gurley's good runs, the LG stands up Matthews and Gurley fakes one way and pops out the other side from behind the LG. Ouch
ILBs getting beat is sometimes the result of the DL going upfield and penetrating- which is great for the pass rush
But they aren't tying up blockers like they would in a 2 gap set and that hurts the run defense. With GB up 24-10 in the 4th, guessing pass isn't a bad call. But Fisher went with the run to keep the ball out of Foles hands and thus the Packers' hands.
