James Harrison Rips Goodell & Fellow Teammates!

Also, I don't know if anyone else caught this, but the Steelers Defensive Coordinator apparently condones high hits too....

"That's what we're told by Coach LeBeau — blow through the guy, not to him. When the fines came down he said, 'Don't change a damn thing.' You're doing it the way we do it on this team."
 
Rodney Harrison responds.....

On the NFL possibly targeting James Harrison:

...I looked at the comments and for me, very immature comments from James Harrsion. Obviously it's a senseless statement that he made calling Roger Goodell the devil. How do you make comments like that? That's flat out cruel and that's a little bit extreme. Let's flip it because there is a little bit of a double standard in my eyes. If Commissioner Goodell called him a devil or a ruthless thug, what would happen to the Commissioner? I think it's just a double standard. I think it's wrong, I think it's immature, I think it's ignorant and somebody needs to grab him by the coattails and tell this guy to shut up and grow up because it's bad. You can't make those type of statements about people. Furthermore, if you wanted to get to know Roger Goodell go to New York and spend time with the man. Don't make these comments if you haven't spent any time with him. I just think it's sad and somebody from the Pittsburgh organization needs to sit this guy down and say shut up and play football. Play football better. Like you said he's not even the best defensive player on his football team. He needs to focus on that."

Rest of the interview:

Even Rodney Harrison Thinks James Harrison Is An Angry Person
 
Also, I don't know if anyone else caught this, but the Steelers Defensive Coordinator apparently condones high hits too....

"That's what we're told by Coach LeBeau — blow through the guy, not to him. When the fines came down he said, 'Don't change a damn thing.' You're doing it the way we do it on this team."

This statement says nothing about allowing hits to the head, it says "Blow thru them", not hit them high in the helmet.
 
Trolling ? I point out where you're completely wrong and you come back with this?



Why does this matter?



The receiver pulled Harrison off the ground too right, that's why the infamous picture of this hit Harrison is in the air superman style? That's what's wrong with the hit.

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Refs aren't going to see everything, and Ben extended so many plays I assure you you'd much rather have gotten what you did rather than having him called in the grasp or sacked the number of times he pulled out of it and made a play.

Ngata was fined for the hit that broke his nose, one of the two fines that I found with all of 3 seconds on Google. Don't know if there were more.

Clearly all reasons to call your boss a (gay slur), a puppet, a dictator, a crook, etc.

Peter King pointed out tonight who it was that knocked on Goodell's door and with news that he had become the commissioner - Art Rooney. He expects at least a 1-game ban imposed by Rooney even if that first game is against the Ravens.

Steelers fans would love for this to be about the NFL rather than their man preaching to a reporter like he's at a hate group rally.

Hey guy, if the guy is not tackled, he's not tackled, that doesn't mean it's OK to hit the guy in the helmet.
Just because your wimpy D guys can't tackle him, thats not HIS fault.
Learn to tackle.
 
thats what it really comes down to. tackling in today's NFL is non existent. you don't have to go back too far. 80's and yes even the very early 90's you would still see tackling. now its all about launching yourself against the opposition. lets get back to tackling. any fool can launch themselves against another player. what harrison needs to realize is that the commish doesn't really have to do any of this. he could've said Fu** it and continue to allow the escalation in the amount of concussions that we've seen the last few years. but he like many of us realized its getting out of hand. non of us can say that when there was more tackling it was a wimpy ass game. it wasn't. quite the contrary. i think it was more violent in the old days of the NFL. but there were less concussions due to defenses actually tackling an offensive player. so players like harrison who are refusing to adapt to the rules are going to have a hard time in the NFL because there's no going back on this one. yes i agree he was singled out. i also remember him saying after the first fine last season that he will continue to get fined because he wasn't going to change his style. didn't he throw out there somewhere about retirement due to this? he has a huge mouth and he F***ed up once again by saying the things he said which have been repeated already enough times in this thread. my personal opinion of harrison is that he's a moron. the steelers imo have better players on that roster than harrison. he's not no ray lewis either. there's another guy that when he opens his mouth i don't see any excrement spewing out of it unlike harrison. yet if ray lewis can adapt to the rules put in place for their own safety then surely anyone else can do it.

i love the NFL because its a violent game. we love the hits. but i don't want to see players get their brains all fu**ed up due to unnecessary launching like some kind of super hero. concussions will never be completely taken out of the game because injury is inevitable in a game like this but it can be controlled. 4 or 5 concussions in one week is a sign of this issue being out of control.
 
I agree with everything Rodney Harrison said ....

However, I think there are PLENTY of football players that you can call "Angry"
i agree with him too jim. if there are other players like you say "angry" at least they are not calling all this attention up on themselves. he needs to zip it
 
Eisen was on Dan Patrick today, and addressed the racism accusation... Just goes to show how poorly thought out the comments by Harrison and others like Polamalu are.

“Do you really think the NFL is racist? Do you really think that?” Eisen said of Harrison’s mindset. “That to me is, you know, beyond the pale. . . . You don’t even know what you’re talking about when you say that. For instance, there’s a hit in the NFL that could be in violation of the rules. That hit, the video of that, goes to the desk of Ray Anderson.”

“Who’s black,” Dan Patrick interjected.

“Who’s black,” Eisen said. “He then picks up the phone, and to help him decide whether someone should get fined or suspended, he calls Merton Hanks.”

“Who’s black,” Patrick said.

“Correct,” Eisen said.

The Commissioner then makes a decision, which is subject to appeal to Art Shell and Ted Cottrell, two former coaches who were jointly appointed by the league and the pre-asterisked NFLPA to handle the appeals. Both men are black.

The haphazard suggestion of racial bias undermines otherwise solid arguments Harrison has made. At times, the rules regarding hits on defenseless players appear to be disconnected from reality and enforced inconsistently and illogically. If Harrison could confine his comments to those points and avoid reckless accusations and name calling, Harrison’s views would be taken far more seriously.

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What did this have to do with the post you quoted?

Refs aren't going to see everything, and Ben extended so many plays I assure you you'd much rather have gotten what you did rather than having him called in the grasp or sacked the number of times he pulled out of it and made a play.
 
i agree with him too jim. if there are other players like you say "angry" at least they are not calling all this attention up on themselves. he needs to zip it

Once AGAIN ....
I never said I agree with what he said about the stuff your talking about,
I'm tired of REPOSTING it, go back a few pages and see what I agreed with,it's easy, it's like the second or third post in the thread.
 
Refs aren't going to see everything, and Ben extended so many plays I assure you you'd much rather have gotten what you did rather than having him called in the grasp or sacked the number of times he pulled out of it and made a play.
thats one of the things i really like about ben. the way he can extend a play despite the circumstances
 
Once AGAIN ....
I never said I agree with what he said about the stuff your talking about,
I'm tired of REPOSTING it, go back a few pages and see what I agreed with,it's easy, it's like the second or third post in the thread.
and again my friend i never said you agreed with it. did i?? :)
 
Eisen was on Dan Patrick today, and addressed the racism accusation... Just goes to show how poorly thought out the comments by Harrison and others like Polamalu are.



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When did Polomalo get in this conversation ?
He's not quoted as saying any of this, at least that I know of.
 
Apparently you need to read the thread too. You even quoted and replied to me about it. Wow.

How does THIS comment make Polomalo part of this rant that Harrison made ?

Though Polamalu was quoted as saying he didn't understand it was fair that Goodell could give out fines that he then oversees, so if the players don't even understand the process I guess it's OK that many fans don't.


This is ALL I found that Troy has said.
 
How does THIS comment make Polomalo part of this rant that Harrison made ?

Though Polamalu was quoted as saying he didn't understand it was fair that Goodell could give out fines that he then oversees, so if the players don't even understand the process I guess it's OK that many fans don't.


This is ALL I found that Troy has said.

As Eisen explained, the fine process is more than Goodell being judge jury and executioner. Polamalu did not understand that then and fired off his mouth, Harrison, who has recent significant firsthand experience with the process apparently still doesn't understand it as he labeled a process that involves more black people than white biased towards blacks.
 
As Eisen explained, the fine process is more than Goodell being judge jury and executioner. Polamalu did not understand that then and fired off his mouth, Harrison, who has recent significant firsthand experience with the process apparently still doesn't understand it as he labeled a process that involves more black people than white biased towards blacks.

For the players to not understand the fine and appeals process doesn't surprise me at all.

WHEN did Goodell set up this appeals team ?
We need to find that out, I don't think it was that way at the START of the season, could be wrong, but you would think that when the whole issue started, Goodell would have pointed that there were others involved right from the get go, so I think maybe it hasn't been that way very long.
 
For the players to not understand the fine and appeals process doesn't surprise me at all.

WHEN did Goodell set up this appeals team ?
We need to find that out, I don't think it was that way at the START of the season, could be wrong, but you would think that when the whole issue started, Goodell would have pointed that there were others involved right from the get go, so I think maybe it hasn't been that way very long.

Your answer is linked to in the Polamalu article. Like you, I'm not going to repost the same thing over and over for when you finally decide to read it. That information is linked to in the article posted yesterday.
 

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