The video supplied in this post goes fuzzy when popped out to full screen, and it's difficult to pause it to show exactly what happened, but I tried. Too fuzzy and too limited a field of view.
I had a question in the back of my mind: Did the hand get stepped on? And a follow-up: How else would a bone in a hand break? And another: I couldn't catch the number of the player who appeared to step on the hand. Who was it?
This all leads to another question I've had since game night: Who was it who stomped on Stafford's shoulder, causing him to leave the field in great pain?
Same guy, maybe, who appeared to come back into the play from a secondary position?
And as the stomper appears to be coming back into the play from a secondary position in both plays, possibly from RCB or nickel position, could it be the same player who hit a stretched-out defenseless Higbee deliberately in the knee? Conjecture and speculation I know, but the dots seem very close and just might connect.
This whole situation needs to be examined by the league. More camera angles. Clearer pictures. It'd be easy enough to tell who did what in each instance.
And to my eye, at least the Higbee cheap shot and Stafford stomp are both blatantly intentional. Hard to see from the evidence presented exactly what happened with the Williams hand injury, but it appears to possibly be a deliberate stomp, just like Stafford's shoulder.
And Joseph, in his self-justifying sh&%-talk afterward, sound almost like Rodney Harrison back in the day.
I recognize what I smell here, and where the scent leads I don't know for sure, but I don't like it.
