[LS]

I don't question whether any player who says he's hurt should leave---he knows if he's hurt. But you are completely wrong on the interpretation of this rule IF the officials thought McNabbit was not "down by contact." The rules do NOT protect any QB in any situation other than having just released the ball in a pass, or in sliding FEET FIRST. All other positions or movements are fair game until the whistle or the sideline markers end the play.

[Libertarian4Bush]

Look - to EVERYONE who is giving me ths crap about how McNabb wasn't down/defenseless/etc.:

Where were you last week when the officials invoked "in the grasp" to force 4th-and-26 on a play when he was on both feet AND able to subsequently throw a ball to James Thrash?

The bottom line is that McNabb was flat on his back, legs sticking up, and Favors threw his full body weight on the back of McNabb's left thigh.

If you disagree with the previous paragraph, watch the replay, as it's not my job to educate you.

Similar plays have happened time and time again, and been concluded with much less dramatic "tackles", without injuries, and, even in some of THOSE cases, with yellow flags and/or fines.

The NFL's application of a whole swath of rules is horribly inconsistent, and anyone who things everything was as it should on that play clearly has a horse in this race.

Time for lunch.