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I saw the Replay of the Hit on Lattimore
Oct 28, 2012, 6:36 AM
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Looked to me like he was already on the way down with a player on top of him. When the other player went very low at a high rate of speed and all his weight aimed at the knees. I don't see how anyones knees could survive that impact. I just don't see that being part of the game. Go at someone and wrap your arms around their legs but don't just throw all your weight at their knees. Knees are not meant to take that kind of impact. Just sickening that a career may be ruined and Latti may need knee replacement surgery sooner rather than later
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Re: I saw the Replay of the Hit on Lattimore
Oct 28, 2012, 6:45 AM
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I too have watched the replay of the hit and I thought it was a cheap shot
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Ya if that is part of the game then why not just poke a
Oct 28, 2012, 6:53 AM
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players eyes out with your fingers?
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Linemen often times gouge at each....................
Oct 28, 2012, 8:35 AM
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others eyes at the bottom of a pileup. Just ask one. I've heard many OLs laughing about it. They claim it is their way of getting a little revenge on the DLs that pound on them the whole game.
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All of that happened in a split second. Sometimes, we give
Oct 28, 2012, 6:57 AM
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players way too much credit for "thinking" when all they are actually doing is reacting.
Im sure the Vols player was just trying to get a good runner down. After all, Lattimore is good because he breaks so many tackles.
It's like the pro game now...a defensive player is rushing the quarterback at top speed, but when the qb releases the ball and the defensive guy is just 6 inches away, he is somehow supposed to pull up.
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After what the Saints were doing I am not so quick to give
Oct 28, 2012, 7:04 AM
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the benefit of the doubt
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If you had seen it live, you would see it differently
Oct 28, 2012, 7:03 AM
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Live, when the outcome of the tackle was unknown, it looks like 100s of other tackles against a runner that is as tough to bring down as Lattimore. You do not tackle a guy as good as Lattimore around the shoulders. He will break your tackle more times than not.
On replay, when you know what happens it is easy to second guess and say well he didn't need to go low becuase clearly (speculation) we was going to go down. Neither of the commentators made a wiff about it being a dirty hit, and these are guys that will rail for 10 minutes about "targeting."
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Re: If you had seen it live, you would see it differently
Oct 28, 2012, 7:20 AM
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Agree, nothing even remotely cheap or dirty about that play. Just very unfortunate how it turned out. Prayers go out to Lattimore, he's one of the "good guys"
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Defensive backs are taught to hit big backs low. There is no
Oct 28, 2012, 7:21 AM
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way to rule this out of the game, unless the game is changed completely. I don't believe there was intent at all. It was a defensive back doing what he has been instructed to do against one of the toughest backs to bring down in college football.
I played the game and as an old man hurt in places I didn't know i had at 22 and I had no severe injuries.
Let's face it. It is a very violent sport and great athletes can get hurt. If it were made completely safe I doubt anyone would watch it. Just this week there have been complaints on here about the sideline rule (running out of bounds), the horse collar tackle and the quarterback in the grasp rule.
No, I really doubt anything was intentional. It is just a terrible down side to a violent sport.
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Tackle low or Hit low? You have to know if you aim all your
Oct 28, 2012, 7:33 AM
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weight at someones knees at a high rate of speed then there is a good chance you will damage them. I think there is tackling then there is hitting to inflict pain and damage. Big difference in my opinion
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You are putting a very fine point on a high speed high
Oct 28, 2012, 8:26 AM
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energy act. The player who hit Marcus Lattimore was the first to call to the sidelines for help. He was just doing what he had been coached to do--hit a big ball carrier low--knees--feet--whatever stops him.
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Yea and one day soon that kind of teaching will be
Oct 28, 2012, 8:53 AM
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the end of Football
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Re: Yea and one day soon that kind of teaching will be
Oct 28, 2012, 8:55 AM
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I'm sorry he's injured, but it was a clean hit.
Football is a violent sport.
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You said "Hit" not tackle. FB better clean up it act or the
Oct 28, 2012, 9:05 AM
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powers that be will do it for them. Already happening. Latti will be lucky to walk normally again much less return to football. Many times a player bounce off a hit and keep on going. I don't think players are taught to hit as much as they are taught to rap their arms around the offensive player--correct?
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Re: You said "Hit" not tackle. FB better clean up it act or the
Oct 28, 2012, 9:24 AM
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Actually, they are taught to do both, and it takes both to bring down most players, especially those like Lattimore. Proper technique involves delivering a blow and wrapping up, and it is drilled into all defensive players on every team.
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if you were a db and tried to hit latty high, he'd flatten
Oct 28, 2012, 7:28 AM
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you. you are taught to take'em low.
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On the flipside, a knee to the defenders helmet can be just
Oct 28, 2012, 9:47 AM
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as dangerous.
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if you intneionally kneed someone in the head you
Oct 28, 2012, 10:07 AM
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probably get thrown out of the game. Now they do that in rasslin but it is fake LOL
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