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10-25-2010, 01:05 PM
Monday, 25 October 2010 13:31
Written by Ed Bouchette http://plus.sites.post-gazette.com/templates/pg_twn/images/emailButton.png (http://plus.sites.post-gazette.com/index.php/component/mailto/?tmpl=component&link=aHR0cDovL3BsdXMuc2l0ZXMucG9zdC1nYXpldHRlLmNvb S9pbmRleC5waHAvc3BvcnRzLXRvd24vc3RlZWxlcnMvMTA1OTE 2LWVkLXdpbGwtaGFycmlzb24tcmVtYWluLWd1bi1zaHk%3D)
Not many seemed to find it troubling that James Harrison acknowledged pulling up rather than tackling Miami’s Ronnie Brown on a play over the middle Sunday. Larry Foote went ahead and made the tackle.
In fact, those I’ve heard talk about it say it was the smart thing to do by Harrison.
So, here you have a linebacker not wanting to tackle a running back because he admittedly feared the NFL crackdown on big hits? Harrison, mind you, wasn’t planning on making an illegal hit on Brown. He planned to aim low. He said he was lucky he did not try to make the tackle because Brown then ducked low and it might have been a helmet to helmet collision.................................... Has the NFL successfully helped neutralize two Pro Bowl Steelers defenders with its crackdown? It’s just one week, but there is video evidence – and an admittance from one – that Harrison and Polamalu shied away from tackles because of it.............
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Written by Ed Bouchette http://plus.sites.post-gazette.com/templates/pg_twn/images/emailButton.png (http://plus.sites.post-gazette.com/index.php/component/mailto/?tmpl=component&link=aHR0cDovL3BsdXMuc2l0ZXMucG9zdC1nYXpldHRlLmNvb S9pbmRleC5waHAvc3BvcnRzLXRvd24vc3RlZWxlcnMvMTA1OTE 2LWVkLXdpbGwtaGFycmlzb24tcmVtYWluLWd1bi1zaHk%3D)
Not many seemed to find it troubling that James Harrison acknowledged pulling up rather than tackling Miami’s Ronnie Brown on a play over the middle Sunday. Larry Foote went ahead and made the tackle.
In fact, those I’ve heard talk about it say it was the smart thing to do by Harrison.
So, here you have a linebacker not wanting to tackle a running back because he admittedly feared the NFL crackdown on big hits? Harrison, mind you, wasn’t planning on making an illegal hit on Brown. He planned to aim low. He said he was lucky he did not try to make the tackle because Brown then ducked low and it might have been a helmet to helmet collision.................................... Has the NFL successfully helped neutralize two Pro Bowl Steelers defenders with its crackdown? It’s just one week, but there is video evidence – and an admittance from one – that Harrison and Polamalu shied away from tackles because of it.............
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