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I'm usually the idiot whining that the NFL is getting too soft and you can't hit anybody anymore etc and I'm all about bitter rivalries and scrums and shit, but there is just absolutely no justification for what Garret did in any fucking way outside of lunacy. I don't even like Rudolph and I'm pretty fed up with the Steelers so this isn't me being a "homer."

What Garret did crossed a line BIG TIME. That was purely an attempt to seriously injure another human being, I don't give a fuck where it took place or the context. If someone shoves you, you don't smash a brick on their head.

@tkamB would you still be defending this stupidity if Rudolph dropped to the ground with blood spraying from his head? If he was in a coma or dead? Just because he's ultimately okay doesn't justify an obvious intent.

 

Arian Foster also RT'd this which...yeah there's a conversation to be had about what we condone by watching football in the first place. Still doesn't justify what happened

 

If someone thinks it’s not a big deal let them get a football helmet swung at their head

 

That Tkam dude couldn't be getting dunked on any harder lol.

 

That was a few inches away from a Bertuzzi/Moore injury. Rudolph is lucky.

 

TKam about to go protest the injustice of this outrageous suspension.

 

How long did it take for you to find a tweet to support your shitty take?

 

happy to see there's only one person in here with the shittiest, dumbest take possible.


and even one is still too many but hey, progress.

 

"all he did was take his helmet off and slam it down on the guy's head WITH THE SOFT PART! HE WASN'T EVEN HURT! it's the exact same as when someone tries to make a tackle! DUHHHHHHH! go clutch pearls and gtfo!"

 

The shitty thing there is no way he’s still suspended week 1 next season. They’ll quietly reinstate him

 

I also hope they suspend Rudolph because he’s not exactly innocent (not “deserves to have his brain caved in” guilty) and also I don’t want him starting next game.

 

damn, i just said this in the NFL thread lol. totally agree and it sucks. just saying "indefinitely" easily means being reinstated in summer when we're all talking about cities or some shit.

 

This is rich lol

 

The whole “well Randolph was pulling on his helmet too” argument is so dumb. Who cares? How are Garrett’s actions in any way warranted or proportionate?

If a guy cuts me off and flips me off on the highway that doesn’t give me leeway to ram him with my car.

 

Myles Garrett is a human, playing a violent sport, who had someone try to rip his helmet off and fight him and he reacted in the heat of the moment. Should he of reacted in the way he did? No, and he said as much, but it was a circumstance not really likely to be repeated and in the end wasn't a big deal. You all will stand for so much violence as long as it comes in the pre-packaged way you're used to seeing. Something that is less frequent occurs (yet something that has happened before), and the instinct to outrage and dehumanization kicks in. There are more dangerous acts that happen every day on a football field. There have been far more dirtier plays/acts that couldve resulted in serious injury. It takes some real cognitive dissonance to view a helmet as a deadly weapon in one instance and not another. If that view and me pushing back on people trying to ban Garrett and charge him with a crime (lol) gets me "dunked on," then whatevs.

 

Tkam: "You're being dehumanizing"
Also Tkam: It's not a big deal someone tried to cave in another human's skull.

Like what the fuck broke inside your brain? Yeah, Football is violent. You're not breaking any news here. But there's a level of violence that is presumed when stepping on the field that they are all expected to be prepared and ready for. Who the fuck is prepared and ready for a 275 sociopath to rip off their helmet, and try to cave their skull in with it?

Furthermore, you're nonsense about "not likely to be repeated" it's literally the third time he has gone too far on the field, THIS YEAR. You talk about or cognitive dissonance?

Continuing on, when there are dirty players, who in here is like "applause! way to go safety to took a dirty headshot!" Literally no one does that.

Also, and again what the hell kinda lawyer are you, there is literally precedent for an athlete using their equipment as a weapon and being charged with a crime. It happened in the NHL when a Bruin slapped a dude in the head with his stick. Explain to me how that's not in the same genre as trying to smash a dude's skull in with a helmet that weighs more than a brick.

You're pseudo-englightened look at me stance is weird, and dumb. You're not cool, or special for pretending what happened last night isn't a big deal.

 

If I shoot at you and Miss is it not a big deal because oh well you’re fine?

 

Would it help if he clarified that Myles is a human, though? smh

 

@EntryLevelDave

 

I guess no violence is punishable because there's some level of violence in society.

 

Literally the player himself said he was in the wrong and what he did was inexcusable and Tkam is out here excusing it anyway. You're a lame k-mart version of Arian Foster.