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Gronk's Cheap Shot

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https://sports.yahoo.com/watch-gronkowski-hit-dirty-play-213647488.html

I know this was mentioned in the other Pats thread but figured it deserved its own considering he could and should be suspended for multiple weeks (but probably won't). He gave the dude a concussion by spearing him as he's laying out of bounds for a good 5 seconds. This is Burfdefect bad. Most likely he'll get a slap on the wrist with a small fine, if that.
 
damn! i'd not seen any football yesterday... wasnt anything worth watching.
 
Gronk admitted he hit the guy out of frustration at the ref. So essentially he attacked a guy defenseless guy in a prone and vulnerable position. If the NFL is serious about concussions how would this not net at least a game suspension.
 
Like if you think back to Harrisons suspension what was the leadup, a hit that was completely legal at the time.
 
From PFT...

I like Rob Gronkowski. Everyone seems to like Rob Gronkowski. But I hate what he did on Sunday, and the NFL should, too.

Gronkowski needs to be suspended for his grossly illegal hit to the head of Bills cornerback Tre'Davious White.

The hit didn’t happen during a play within the usual course of a football game. It was a post-whistle, top-rope wrestling move that entailed throwing 275 pounds on to an opponent who was on the ground, and who wasn’t looking. And it resulted in not one but two blows to the head for White: The initial contact between Gronk’s forearm and White’s head, and the contact between White’s head and the ground.

“If you do something like that to someone in the streets, you’re going to jail,” NBC’s Rodney Harrison said during Football Night in America. “He deserves to be suspended one game.”

Yes, he does. Maybe two games (reduced to one on appeal). And while many reacted to Rodney’s remark by pointing out that most things that happen on a football field would constitute assault and/or battery if they happened on the streets, Gronkowski’s hit on White wasn’t a football play. It was an admitted act of anger and frustration.

The fact that it involved a pair of hits to the head for White and placed the rookie in the concussion protocol makes it even more appropriate for a suspension. Indeed, the league suspended Bears linebacker Danny Trevathan earlier this year for a concussion-inducing hit on Packers receiver Davante Adams that came before the whistle. The league later suspended Buccaneers receiver Mike Evans for a blindside hit after the whistle. Gronkowski’s play combines the worst aspects of those two moments, and it cries out for swift and stern discipline.

Given that Patriots coach Bill Belichick admitted to Bills coach Sean McDermott that the maneuver was “bullsh-t,” it will be hard for Belichick to disagree with whatever the league chooses to do. If the league truly is serious about protecting players from unnecessary blows to the head, what the league should choose to do to Gronkowski is to suspend him for at least one game. Because there should be no place in the game for the kind of gratuitous violence in which Gronkowski engaged on Sunday.

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/suspension-only-response-gronkowski-hit-115508654.html


Apparently Rodney Harrison equates jail time to a 1 game suspension lol
 
the fact that RODNEY ******* HARRISON said this should be suspension-worthy says something.
 
He absolutely should get a suspension but won't simply because he plays for the Cheatriots. They get to play by a different set of rules.
 
ugly hit. I think it is worse, because White seemed to be out of it before the hit.
 
The victim has a concussion, he was lying on the ground out of bounds and Gronk elbowed him in the back of the head - they better suspend him
 
looking at the hit he could have broke the dude neck or back.
 
Superman said:
damn! i'd not seen any football yesterday... wasnt anything worth watching.
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You're absolutely right on football being hard to watch, unless it's the STEELERS playing. So what the **** did you do, pocket pool or maybe you drove to work and remembered it was Sunday??????? Some of us here, well maybe just me, would like to know just what the **** you did?????






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Should be 2 games. That was an egregious, premeditated foul.
 
The thing is it was with INTENT. That's the main ingredient when suspensions are handed down and in this case there is NO question of intent. I thin k the "Gronk" is steroided out as this is exact actions of juicing. When was the last time he was drug tested.......anyone on the CHEATRIOTS team for that matter.......OH wait, I see the drug testing UNIT is booked up testing our kicker and OLB. Does he deserve a SUSPENTION weather his first offense or not, subjectively I say yes but in reality it will be a $5283.21 fine in wich ****-head kr*ft will pay. VERY tired of these cheating ******** with MASShole fans.



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Just saw the full replay and watched closely this time. If the league is trying to protect players from head injuries, Gronk must be suspended for multiple games. He wasn't even involved with the player he hit. The guy was laying on the ground face down and Gronk went at his head with his forearm and the full force of his body. That is as vicious an illegal hit as you will see. There is no timing involved as in a WR coming across the field. The dude was down on his face and Gronk came from 5 yards away and pounced on him for NO reason. There just is no excuse for that vicious and deliberate hit after the play was well over.

Again, I wouldn't be surprised if he gets no suspension but he SHOULD get multiple games if the league is serious about protecting players.
 
Gronk will be given an award and have a charity named for him.
 
Definitely cant compare this to any real time in play blow to the head. I think he will get a game. Goodell knows it wont effect anything and that it will look shity if he skates.
 
Too bad the giants fired everybody today or this would be top story...convenient.
 
I've never cared for Gronkowski. He's an ***. That was dirty as hell.
 
I like Gronk and was kinda surprising, but I feel he should be suspended at least one game. I would bet a lot of money he will be suspended at least a game. If Goodell does not suspend him them Hoodie might. That was one of the cheapest plays that I can remember.
 
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