Posted on 10/24/2023 5:28:35 AM PDT by Red Badger
The NFL is suspending Denver Broncos safety Kareem Jackson four games for unnecessary roughness after he was ejected from Sunday’s game for a hit he made on Green Bay Packers tight end Luke Musgrave, according to a league statement.
VIDEO AT LINK.............
“On the play in question, you delivered a forceful blow to the head/neck area of a defenseless receiver, when you had the time and space to avoid such contact. You could have made contact with your opponent within the rules, yet you chose not to,” NFL Vice President of Football Operations Jon Runyan told Jackson per the statement.
Runyan also noted that Jackson has had multiple offenses for personal fouls this season, highlighting a week two hit against the Washington Commanders’ Logan Thomas, for which he was also ejected.
The four games suspension for Jackson is the most severe punishment for any player since 2019, when the NFL suspended notorious repeat (repeat) offender Vontaze Burfict for 12 games, according to NFL Research.
Jackson will reportedly appeal the suspension, NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero reported.
I understand the NFL wanting to promote player safety but this is crazy. That play was worth a flag and nothing more. There was no overt intention there to do anything but knock the ball loose.
Given Broncos head coach Sean Payton’s history — he was suspended for the entire 2012 season after allegedly paying his players to injure the opposing team’s best players in the infamous Bountygate scandal — I can’t help but think the NFL is over-legislating here.
Jackson has had multiple suspensions in the past, which is obviously a factor, but four games is basically a quarter of the season for a play that every defensive back has been coached to make since they were playing Pop Warner. I’m hoping the independent arbiters have some sense here and at least knock off a game or two from the suspension so Jackson can recoup some game checks and pay those hefty fines that are undoubtedly coming.
How that appeal will go may come down to who gets chosen to hear it. His appeal will be heard by either former superstar linebacker Derrick Brooks or former Redskins (yes, back then they were the Redskins) receiver James Thrash, per the NFL statement.
Brooks was one of the most terrifying defenders in NFL history, delivering a countless number of punishing hits on unsuspecting opponents that would no doubt be deemed illegal today. Thrash … was a receiver.
For Jackson’s sake, let’s hope it’s Brooks who gets to hear him out.
NFL Ping!...............
The pic with the article would be declared ‘Fake News’ by most people after seeing the video of the hit. Right where the arrow is between the two circles is where the defender’s top side of his helmet blasts the receiver’s earhole. Based on the defender’s thug life history.... Bailiff!
Don’t get me wrong, there are plenty of issues with the referees to go around. This just isn’t one of them.
Agreed. That was a vicious and unnecessarily dangerous hit, and it isn’t the first time this player has done it.
Thank you for confirming what I suspected when I saw the photo. I wasn’t going to get sucked into yet another clickbait article teasing some sensational video, so I didn’t see it,but the two frames in the photos are too far apart and completely omit showing the actual hit. Why bother going through the trouble of doing that when one from a respectable hit would easily make your case... unless you are trying to be fallacious or fraudulent?
I’m glad I didn’t give them that click.
The officials seemed like they wanted to throw the game in GB favor. Why did this game have a suspicious touchdown that was the only one in the NFL that was not reviewed? I wonder how much on line sports betting has brought in fixing games by the bookies?
There is no coincidence that flag football will be part of the olympics. That is the direction the NFL is moving towards.
First they will put flags on just the Quarterbacks.
Then the Running backs, and eventually all the others..............
Jack Lambert was right, they should make quarterbacks wear dresses.
I watched the play multiple times, and under today's trans, lbgqtafag rules, it would be called a roughness penalty, but not worthy of ejection.
To call it "vicious" means that you are breathlessly awaiting the new flag football event in the next Olympics.
Soon the refs will be wearing the pink, green, yellow & blue stripes instead of black and white, and all will be well in the nfl.
Well, Fanduel sports booking is “an official partner of the National Football League.” Draw your own conclusions.
“First they will put flags on just the Quarterbacks. ...”
I honestly think this will happen. Until people quit watching and just switch to watching soccer.
You just know it’s coming.
Maybe not for 10 years, but it’s coming.................
Interesting interpretation, but remarkably idiotic. He lead with his helmet, and he hit the opposing player in the helmet. I have no issue with hard hits/tackles, but that hit had a high likelihood of causing serious injury, and it was entirely avoidable and unnecessary.
lead with the head, maybe not 4 games, but at least one. dirty hit
Agreed!
He targeted his neck area.
Lucky the GB receiver isn’t a quadriplegic!
I watched the game, and that hit was unnecessary. I don’t remember if it was the same game, but I saw the defender actually pick up the ball carrier and throw him to the ground. That was unnecessary as well, and no penalty was called. It brought to mind Green Bay’s Charlie Martin throwing Chicago’s Jim McMahon to the ground back in the 80s. McMahon had a separated shoulder and I don’t remember what happened to Martin. I believe Green Bay was penalized for that one, however.
This is not "flag" football by the way. Tag football means the play is dead as soon as an opposing team member tags the player with the ball, be it quarterback, running back, receiver, etc. If you tagged the QB, it was considered the same as a sack.
Anyway, I preferred that method of football. The tackle football never appealed to me. I went out for it one year and decided it was not for me.
“The pic with the article would be declared ‘Fake News’ by most people after seeing the video of the hit.”
Agreed! I watch little NFL - but was watching that game. That was not a legit hard hit by the defender. It was dirty.
The only thing possibly dirtier is the selective use of still frames to make it appear as though it was not dirty.
The hit was just dangerous. A thousand other ways it could have been done without aiming for the guy’s pons.
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