I saw that too. That's the sort of dirty underhanded ply that I call underhanded and dirty.
Every twist doesn't take somebody out - but for sure, Stafford felt it. The fact that those extra-cirricular additions to a tackle occur all too frequently with a couple of teams, along with other observable evidence, doesn't let me write it off, or count unnecessary roughness penalties as a criteria for dirt.
The teams that seem to send more players out with a knee injury, game after game, without getting called for penatlties (New England in the Billycheat/Brady era comes to mind) leads me to believe that
it's coached. and the
players look for the opportunities and a are
taught how to get away with it.As stated in my original post, I saw it from New Orfleans before it became a ting; I see it in SAhanny's SF teams and DC's, and I see it in Detroit.
The fact that some teams get called more for out-in-the-open, stupid, unnecessary roughness and others get away with more sneaky, dirty, deliberate injury-causing play doesn't prove or disprove which team is cleanor dirty. If anything, it tends to demonstrate that the teams who mysteriously cause other players to leave games have been taught how to make it happen.
