Dirty hit?

I voted no.

If that was Pennington, then i probably would've voted yes. But, he dove head first, so he is allowed to be hit. It did look a little like spearing, but it could've been his shouder

 

He dove head first, and the other guy didn't take any steps while Brady was sliding.

Edit: On second thought, it was LEGAL, but it was dirty, too.

 

I think you got the correct distinction in your edit. A hit being legal and a hit being clean are not the same thing.

 

The hit was legal, but leading with your head like that is just fucked up, especially when the player is about to hit the ground.

 

that was pretty dirty. Brady was going to the ground.

 

Not enough to be dirty.

 

I hate brady buit thast was diurty

 

The hit wasn't late,
The QB Was "fair Game" because he dove

but...

Spearing is Spearing. You cannot dive Helmet first with your head down using it as a "weapon".

That is a penalty.

 

That was my impression as well. It's both an illegal and dirty hit.

 

Looked clean to me... Brady dove head first and it appeared the defender hit with his shoulder

 

It's a dirty hit, but you know what, it IS on Brady... So I guess I'll let it slide and OKAY it :lol:

 

yep, illegal and dirty. Leading with the helmet especially at some guys head is intent to injure in my book

 

I could watch that video all day.

 

how do you get it to play?

 

it plays by itself, unless you have some kind of flash or video blocker stopping it.

 

nice spear. how they are protecting Qbs this year.. he should get hanged

 

How could you be in that position and not want to hit him like that? I vote no, but it is definitely borderline.

 

QBs are being protected too much in this league. I'm surprised the defender hasn't been sentenced to death yet for that hit.

I think it's clean, it is within the rules to hit the QB when diving head-first.

 

^Its illegal and Del Rio got fined for telling his players to do it