Week 1 Inactives: Browns vs Steelers
September 7, 2014Browns trail Steelers 27-3 at the half, lead in fan misery
September 7, 2014
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Talk about metaphors. Here’s Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Antonio Brown delivering a right foot to the face of Cleveland Browns punter Spencer Lanning that would make Liu Kang blush.
Brown was flagged 15 yards for the penalty, and will likely draw a fine for the play, but the Steelers still scored on the drive and the wide receiver still had himself one hell of a first half, hauling in five balls for 116 yards and a touchdown. This, not even including the damage he’s done in the special teams game.
The more things change…
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In the moment I thought that maybe, just maybe, Brown was trying to get cute and mistimed an attempt to jump over Lanning. Watching that gif though, he heads straight at him and seems to kick his leg out to shove Lanning down with his foot. Think he could get suspended for it too? Didn’t Albert Haynesworth get suspended for unnecessary stomping?
The name of the gif is Metaphors. How perfect.
Justin Gilbert sucks. you heard it here first.
Gilbert was a train wreck. He gave up a handful of big plays, the most notable being the blown assignment on the fake punt and falling down to let them get into game winning field goal position.
Very dirty move. I was bummed to see the drug-offending Bell running all over us- it was like they got to keep their stoner but we weren’t allowed ours. Second half was really nice though. I will save that discussion for the post-game write up, though.
I don’t know about “sucks” after one game, but he certainly looked bad. Seems like a game speed adjustment which I did not expect based on his college career. But I wouldn’t write him off just yet. Next week, maybe.
Eh, my buddy I own tix with has been saying it since the first preseason game.
That said, I do think he needs to just adjust a bit. Good example: That second pass he gave up, he read it well and broke on it as if for a pick-six… but that doesn’t happen so easily with NFL QBs. Ball went right over his arms. NFL QBs don’t mis-throw that as often as college QBs.
Honestly he probably expected the guy to cut his legs out so leaping made sense, most punters just dive at the legs. Kind of unfortunate for the punter, but lets be honest at full speed what are you going to do, its note like he could just hover there.
Still trying to figure out why that’s wasn’t an ejection.
Even at full speed it looked intentional and not a hurdle attempt,if the knee had hit sure, but this foot was on purpose, at the least Brown should have been ejected. In slow motion it looked evil,instead of just on purpose…watch the motion and legs of Brown if he had actually tried to hurdle Lanning he could have done it easily. Also if he did it by accident he probably would have stopped,or at least tried to apologize after the play he did niether.
Steelers at home,only reason I can see.
I love how the NFL tweeted out this same picture in the final recap. This from a league claiming to worried about concussions. Because, you know, a little face-kicking never hurt anyone…
Liu Kang wouldn’t be jealous of this. In MK2, that dude could literally fly 20 feet through the air while delivering several kicks to the face in succession.
http://media.giphy.com/media/qBijow3fUtKZa/giphy.gif
I was pretty pissed off about it. I think he should get a suspension for it. I thought he should have been thrown out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoiCagJhmQc