Vontaze Burfict Tries Out Other Sports
Thank goodness that dumbass Vontaze Burfict got suspended for the year. We all knew what was gonna happen at some point, better to just get it out of the way now.
I hope he loses his inevitable appeal and this was the last we see of him. This kind of head hunting would have been seen as dirty a decade ago, even before we started getting worried about these hits. He’s never going to stop launching himself like a missile. The Raiders knew this would happen and they signed him anyway so they could get a few games out of him. You want to know how dirty that hit was? Bill Romanowski thought Burfict shouldn’t be suspended. The opposite of whatever Bill Romanowski believes about dirty hits is the truth. If you ever find yourself agreeing with Bill Romanowski, please see a doctor.
Honestly though he probably wouldn’t have been suspended if it wasn’t Vontaze Burfict. We had a few bad hits this past week, all deserving of at least major fines. Derek Barnett of the Eagles delivered a completely and utterly unnecessary dirty hit on the Packers Jamaal Williams, who got carted off. In a vacuum I might even argue this was a dirtier hit than Burfict’s. Williams was wrapped up, going backwards, his momentum stopped, all well before Burnett launched himself full speed into him head first for no valid reason. That hit deserved a suspension, imo.
Also this week, we had the Josh Allen hit, which was far more of a grey area as Allen was a runner and I do now believe that Jones intended to lead with his shoulder for the most part (The above angle shows it fairly clearly, I think it just went down too fast to make it clean). But it was still unnecessarily rough, injured Allen, and I hate it when defenders just go for a hit instead of a tackle. I had no problem with Jones being penalized and if he gets fined I won’t be upset. Didn’t deserve a suspension, imo, but I get why Bills fans were angry about it.
In the Bucs/Rams game on the Marcus Peters pick, Bucs lineman Donovan Smith absolutely obliterated Peters, but out of every hit on this list this one is probably the cleanest. Still not great though, still helmet to helmet, and Peters had to leave the game.
But none of these guys to my knowledge has Burfict’s history. Burfict famously delivered the hit on Antonio Brown that many people half-jokingly speculate caused his current madness. Burfict famously twisted players ankles in the pile. Vontaze is either completely stupid or a monster and he needs to stop playing football. For his own health and the health of others. I don’t know what he will do without football (probably lots of weed) but I don’t care. Get him off the field.
There’s a part of me that actually hopes the NFL starts fining players for these hits more and more. Like every hit that doesn’t feature an honest attempt to wrap up. There has to be some way to dis-incentivize these missile hits and hard smacks. All they really seem to do is look badass on replays and occasionally knock a ball lose. But how many highlights have occurred where a player bounced off a hit and kept going for extra yards because the defender just went for the pain instead of the tackle? You can still deliver a good hit and also tackle someone at the same time. These big hits are a lot less fun to watch for everyone these days thanks to the newfound concerns for injuries. They seriously need to find a way to slow them down.
So much for Burfet and AB being best teammates
No lie, I would be more inclined to watch golf if they had linebackers randomly lining up to make BIG HITS.
Would definitely make golf more exciting…
Lol, there’s a linebacker countdown if you’re not fast enough.
Someone pointed out that if the top of the helmet wasn’t hard then people would be less likely to use it like a battery ram. In fact one of the top helmets for reducing concussions has padding on both in and outside of the helmet, but it looks stupid so only a few players were using it. This was one of the reasons why they explained players from earlier eras were less likely to exhibit severe CTE cases. The hard outside and the extreme padding on the inside made players feel like they could lead with their head.
There was a NFL top 10 hardest hitting linebackers and the guy that routinely used to knock people out of the game in the 50s and 60s only tackled with his shoulder. When they interviewed him he was in his 90s living on his own, which while he still might have CTE is clearly wasn’t one of the severe cases we see today.
The picture this puts into my head is that of a 90 year old man shoulder-smacking the doctors, nurses, and relatives who come to check up on him. XD
It has long been my belief that if all players were forced to wear giant painted foam afros, we would not only reduce concussions, but the amusement factor would increase tenfold.
Lol. I’m sold.
Giant painted afros are pretty much what the ProCap was, I think.
Along those lines, but ProCaps just looked embarrassingly silly. They didn’t LEAN INTO the stupid. We need something more like Spaceballs helmets. This, basically, but entirely of foam:
https://i.redd.it/vhzwgvt312a01.jpg
Vontaze tries out Rugby….and isn’t bad at it maybe? I could get behind the Vontaze trying other sports bit.
If he tries to tackle like that in Rugby he will get himself killed.
Pretty much no one in rugby wears headgear, and even then it’s only really meant to protect the ears. So much for helmet-to-helmet hits
He’d be ejected and on report in his first game for high tackles. Then he’d get mandatory 6 game suspensions for his hit on the first offense, and then he’d be cut.
I’d give Donovan Smith a slight pass as an offensive player, he doesn’t practice tackling anywhere near as much as the other guys on the list. Sure some time might be dedicated to it (especially with Winston as QB), but for those offensive guys, especially linesman it’s more about just getting the guy down rather than a form perfect tackle.
At first I thought this was going to be about Romo.
It should have been. Burfet saw room golfing but he still sees him as a qb he has to put out of the game
I don’t think Vontaze should have gotten suspended for the whole year just because he makes dirty hits. He got ejected for the game. Thats fine enough. If you don’t want to get hit, don’t play tackle football. It’s that simple.
How bout he gets ejected from ‘The Game’ entirely. Tired of his crap
I won’t argue the Barnett hit was extremely dirty but to his credit he did seem visibly upset about what happened and went to talk to Williams as he was being stretchered off. It was a bonehead move but he seemed genuinely remorseful about doing it unlike Burfict who was all smiles about his hits.
Golfer should have been Romo
The AB CTE thing makes 100% sense. Prior to the hit, he only had that crazy kicking punter clip and awesome football plays. Post that hit he has done all sorts of irrational things including the alleged sexual assault incidents. My tell tale sign is the things he’s said though, like openly admiring he was cheating on his girlfriend by saying “I just can’t seem to keep it in my pants”, or when accused his chef of making mafia style threats because he found a frozen fish head. Only someone with brain damage would think those thoughts or say them out loud.
Would’ve been funnier if it was Romo golfing.
I thought Burfict was just a dirty player in the NFL, but apparently he has a substantial history ate the college level of big uncalled for hits too… This guy has been playing fast-and-loose for his entire career and no one has been able to even remotely begin to change his bad behavior.