Peppers Hit

Gotta be a fine coming for that one. I couldn't believe how many people with C's on their head were arguing about that call!

this is why i don't understand how these guys can be friends after the game.

peppers basically tried giving aaron a concussion

According to the rules, Peppers committed a flagrant foul hitting AR in the head with his helmet.

But how about the other Bear defender who also hit Rodgers in the head after Peppers hit him in the chin. That should have been a penalty too.

Then there was the grabbed face mask by Forte on Bishop. They threw a flag on the Packers in the last few weeks.

I mentioned it in the AFC Champ game thread, but I wouldn't be surprised to see something similar from Harrison in the Super Bowl.

He's an unbelievable football player but he is dirty as hell. He jumped on Sanchez after he was already sliding and then gave him an elbow to the helmet.

Take him out early

Borderline cheap shots are normal for the Pittsburgh defense. They rarely get called for late hits, even though Polamalu, Harrison et al. have made it a specialty. Look for lots of questionable "physical" plays in the Super Bowl.

While I am not disagreeing it was a penalty, it is very doubtful it was intentional. peppers is not a dirty player and believe that is his first personal foul all year. There was a helmet to helmet hit on Hanie that wasn't called (no big deal) but Aikman felt it was because the defender was pulling up. IMO a helmet to helmet hit is just that, doesn't matter if the guy is pulling up or not. No calls affected the outcome of the game.

For all the griping about refs I saw here during the week, and the gripes over the field , I haven't seen any now. See what winning does.

the field is a p.o.s. though.

Actually Harry, while winning does a lot for the ref directed griping, not having 18 penalties called on your team does a lot for the griping about the refs as well.

$50k fine this week for Peppers - should be higher but won't be. Definitely should have been ejected if the NFL is indeed serious about cracking down with regard to flagrant "launch" style helment-to-helmet hits.

I don't think Peppers is a dirty player. He blasted AR though. Intentional? That's debatable but I doubt that it was.

No I don't know what a "helment" is either ;-)

Yes, Pakrz, I think you're right that it wasn't intentional. The fine and ejection IMO should have occurred regardless.

Has anyone been ejected for that type of hit this year?

Doubtful it would happen in a championship game or even in the Super Bowl.

It sure looked intentional.... The operative "looked"

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Originally posted by Pakrz:
I don't think Peppers is a dirty player. He blasted AR though. Intentional? That's debatable but I doubt that it was.

Yeah, didn't lead with the helmet and left his feet. Rodgers helmet is normally perched like a fedora with a bloody lip.

No doubt it looks bad... real bad. The hit was illegal for sure. This game is played very, very fast and sometimes it's hard to stop your momentum. When you watch some of these hits in slow motion it looks way bad.

Still, Peppers doesn't have a history of dirty play. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt.

the reason I won't give him the benefit of the doubt is because he's a veteran who knows better.....and....he's on the Bears...

what I mean is that since he joined that team....he took on their mentality.....it got the best of him on the play...

they Bears D knew that the only chance they had was to put the hur on Rodgers....legal or illegal...

If Zombo's was illegal in the first game, Peppers should be sitting a game.

BTW, watching a lot of the highlights ... Urlacher is as much of a whiney bi?ch as Cutler is, no wonder he defends that arse-wipe.

dum play by Peppers and will draw a flag every time. Only bad thing is Rodgers didn't seem to play well after it, so some guys might think a 15 yard flag is the way to slow down the machine.

Um, yea...

should've been ejected

And the f***er had the nerve to argue the call...

No it's all good. It just looked bad.

All I have to say is I hope someone on the Packers ends his ****ing career next year.

Yes, I mean it vag wipes.

Nope, good call, bad hit. The first thing that hit Rodgers was the helmet on the helmet. There was not a shoulder and then slid off to the helmet, it was not a hand to the helmet, it was a direct helmet to helmet hit. Fine should be coming.

i wouldn't cry about it.

Hell sign Charles Martin the day before, and line him up at TE for one play. Let him do his thang.

A problem ... I think CMartin is dead.

Fark. What's Kyle Turley doing these days? He's a nasty Mofo.

What ticked me off is he argued the call, for a lonnnnnnng time afterwards.

Cripes it was a dead-on hit, what a maroon.

oh well. JP will be another year older next year and has a QB controversy on the other side of the ball to deal with

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Originally posted by trump:
A problem ... I think CMartin is dead.

Dead? What happened to him?

John Kuhn, running straight at his knee.

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Originally posted by Pakrz:
Um, yea...

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Originally posted by Pakrz:

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Originally posted by trump:
A problem ... I think CMartin is dead.

Dead? What happened to him?

His heart stopped beating.

In that picture it just looks like Peppers is giving Rodgers a big old hug.

Why, according to Tom Jackson on
"NFL Primetime":

"Peppers with the nice hit..."

That's not helmet to helmet it's helmet to chin. Ouch.

If you watched the Steelers game yesterday it was shocking that the refs allowed Pittsburgh defenders to get away with a number of plays- i.e. cheap shots.

The Packers will have to prepare for this - they play a lot like the Bears- they are tough and aggressive but they also play to the whistle and some cases beyond the whistle and due to their reputation I think they get away with some hits.

Briggs also hit him on the helmet with his hand. It was pathetic how peppers and urlatcher were arguing the call.

Marinelli was especially animated after that play on the sidelines. I didn't see it as a dirty or intentional hit, just one of those football plays that happens and it was clearly a penalty.

Marinelli used to teach his DL to go for QB's knees.