Posted on 12/13/2010 5:08:00 AM PST by SamAdams76
We know that the New York Jets are a team that likes to be loud and proud about their exploits. They're a team with a lot of swagger even when things are not going well, which they haven't been of late. Less than a week after losing 45-3 to the New England Patriots on Monday Night football, Rex Ryan's bunch lost 10-6 to the Miami Dolphins, and did so in a much more embarrassing fashion...
Go to this link for the rest of the story as this video must be seen to be believed. A member of the Jets coaching staff deliberately trips a Miami Dolphin player who is running up the sideline to cover a punt return.
(Excerpt) Read more at sports.yahoo.com ...
I had a hard time seeing it too. But if you look at the coach’s left leg... He bends his knee and pushes his knee forward just enough to catch the Miami player’s leg. It isn’t a classic foot trip, apparently just brushing his leg enough to disrupt his stride and make him fall. (he is running flat out after all)
The ENTIRE Jets franchise is based on ONE game played almost 40 years ago.
The Jets are the Ted Kennedy of the NFL...
That's just mean ....... though true.
The guy, Charlie Bauman of Clemson had just intercepted a pass and was bumped out of bounds into the OSU bench area. That's when Woody grabbed him and started punching. I'm sure Woody would have much rather been punching his own QB, Art Schlichter, but he wasn't within arms reach at that moment...
It will interesting to see how it all ends up.
Myself such things should HURT the first time as in a severe fine of about half his yearly pay. The Second time he is banned from NFL football forever.
I would love to see the same for players but we all know such will never happen!
“I watched the video several times and have a hard time seeing him move his leg....Also, the Dolphin defender was way out of bounds.”
I wondered about that, too, until I just read the apology from the coach in the article. What a stupid move.
It looks the the Jets were running the return to that sideline and had two players sealing the Dolphin outside man out of bounds.
The coach needed to get out of the way rather than leave his leg out there.
That's a pretty common soccer foul by a player who gets beat on the dribble. Once he's on the wrong foot he leaves his leg out there for the offensive player to run into. It's more a foul by omission than by commission.
when the head coach fosters that type of attitude in the players, it will lead to things like this.
The bloom is coming off the media’s Rexie rose.
He should be fired and then beaten with a potato
And after the last two weeks, just about as dead.
LOL....I remember that.
Other players can, however, go out of bounds and return to the field of play to make a legal tackle on a ball carrier - so long as they have established themselves as being in bounds before making the tackle (at least two full steps in bounds). Why would a player deliberately run up the field out of bounds? Probably because it is illegal to tackle or block a player who is out of bounds so players who are covering a kickoff return can get upfield quickly without worrying about other players getting in the way. So long as they take at least two steps inbounds before making a tackle, they are good to go.
It was very subtle and hard to detect. But since he admitted it, then give him a two minute minor in the penalty box for tripping....
The coach was an Integral Coaching Ball Manager (ICBM) and he didn't trip the player, he threw down a Chinese Sub Sandwich which the player slipped on.
If you’re from Ohio, Charlie Bauman got what he deserved and Woody was unjustly punished!! Wayne Woodrow Hayes - 3 national championships and 13 Big Ten conference titles. Soft as a teddy bear when he wasn’t around football but a little crazy when it came to the Buckeyes. RIP Woody.
Sorry - five national championships
Actually, it was Schlicter that should have been slugged by Woody. He’s the dope that checked off at the line of scrimmage and threw that terrible pass. He had no business changing the play from a run to a pass. It cost OSU the game.
This reminds me of a college game where a player returned a kick-off for a touchdown. He was very close to the visitor’s sideline as he ran. One of the players who stuck out a foot in an effort to trip him was Don Meredith.
...and Woody his job.
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