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Rams coach Jeff Fisher says the Rodney McLeod penalty shouldn’t have been called, and he’d tell McLeod to do the same thing next time.
Watch Fisher's McLeod Comments
Watch Fisher's McLeod Comments
Can't wait to see Barron and TJ destroying WRs on a weekly basis.
Watch what they do to the Chargers!!Can't wait to see Barron and TJ destroying WRs on a weekly basis.
Of course we'd be upset if something like this costs us a win but I don't think you can ever tell a football player to avoid hitting, especially when the hit was a legal one.Loved the hit and it was clean.
But, hard hits like that are going to draw a flag almost every time.
So long as it doesn't cost the Rams a game, keep it up.
But us fans will not be as enthusiastic about these hard hits if one ends up costing us a game.
Such a fine line between hard hitting being a positive... or a negative.
Just be smart about it is what I guess I'm saying.
Yes, of course not.Of course we'd be upset if something like this costs us a win but I don't think you can ever tell a football player to avoid hitting, especially when the hit was a legal one.
Yes, I totally get your point. And, you are correct, it that had turned the game the other direction I'd still be pissed, but at the officials, not McCleod. I just don't think there were many other way to play that one and the hit did indeed send a message.Yes, of course not.
But McLeod could have accomplished the goal without absolutely annihilating Sanders (and incurring the penalty). And I understand the concept of "sending a message".
But, had the game been closer... or that play gave the Broncos momentum and the Rams lose, we would be typing very different things about the hit, no?
As it was, things worked out great for the Rams.
I'm just saying be smart about those types of hits. Make sure the penalty that will assuredly accompany it doesn't come back to cost you a game.
Know what I'm trying to get at?
It's true. I don't know what else he was supposed to do there...Let him catch the ball?
Of course we'd be upset if something like this costs us a win but I don't think you can ever tell a football player to avoid hitting, especially when the hit was a legal one.
Yes, I totally get your point. And, you are correct, it that had turned the game the other direction I'd still be pissed, but at the officials, not McCleod. I just don't think there were many other way to play that one and the hit did indeed send a message.
Yes, of course not.
But McLeod could have accomplished the goal without absolutely annihilating Sanders (and incurring the penalty). And I understand the concept of "sending a message".
But, had the game been closer... or that play gave the Broncos momentum and the Rams lose, we would be typing very different things about the hit, no?
As it was, things worked out great for the Rams.
I'm just saying be smart about those types of hits. Make sure the penalty that will assuredly accompany it doesn't come back to cost you a game.
Know what I'm trying to get at?
It isn't like in the .2 seconds while he is running toward the guy he is thinking about what if, he is making a play, a legal play. Unless the rules change to give points for penalties that play is not going to "cost a game"Yes, of course not.
But McLeod could have accomplished the goal without absolutely annihilating Sanders (and incurring the penalty). And I understand the concept of "sending a message".
But, had the game been closer... or that play gave the Broncos momentum and the Rams lose, we would be typing very different things about the hit, no?
As it was, things worked out great for the Rams.
I'm just saying be smart about those types of hits. Make sure the penalty that will assuredly accompany it doesn't come back to cost you a game.
Know what I'm trying to get at?