Re: Instigator?

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LMU93
I just think because it was not flagged for unnecessary roughness does not mean it was legal. It should have been flagged for sure and it is one of those things where the rookie QB did not get the call a star QB would have. He was hit late, then driven to the ground deliberately, and then he laid on him. So Rudolph took exception as he should have and started pushing him off. Absolutely should have been flagged to begin with. And regardless just a total dick move.

I don't know that it should have been flagged for sure. I think it was borderline and the ref decided to let it go. As far as I know, the NFL after the game didn't say there was a problem with the hit itself. I say it was legal because the game isn't called by the technical rules; it's called by the technical rules as interpreted by the refs. So if there is a late hit or a PI that's not called - hello NRC - the players have to live with that stuff. Refs missing calls is within the bounds of the game.

It was definitely a total dick move. But the dick move was still within the boundaries and rules of the game. Trying to take someone's helmet off isn't. Hitting someone with a helmet isn't. Bumping a ref, throwing flags into the stands, snatching chains off a neck, stomping on someone...none of that stuff is within the boundaries and rules of the game. People who do those things should be punished and their actions should be judged apart from any wrong actions someone else did.

Turns out the NFL agrees because Mason has now been punished with a fine. Personally I would have suspended him a game.