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Vanden Bosch hit Manning’s knee, which underwent surgery last year, forcing him to miss all of the pre-season.

I had to re-read this twice, as it made it sound like Vanden Bosch’s hit forced Manning to miss all of pre-season – lol.

2. Venden Bosch’s direct hit on Manning’s knee and lower leg seemed much worse than Terrell Suggs’ brush against Brady’s knee. He and Fisher shouldn’t have been surprised that it would be flagged and fined.

I honestly thought Ugoh did block him into Mannning. Guess that’s why I’m not a ref.

What does he expect? Is the rule only good when it’s applied to other teams?

but what Robert Kraft wants, Robert Kraft gets.

/still hate the patriots
//STAY AWAY FROM MANNING’S KNEES!!!
///when is that Notre Dame/USC game again? I WANNA WATCH! :D

Fisher is OK in my book..a good coach. He is only doing his job…backing his player. Nuff Said.

regarding a penalty but this was clearly the right call to make. This was a dangerous shot to Peyton’s knees, clearly. The call was right, and the fine was reasonable by the NFL in accordance with the new rule. The call on Brady last week was a mickey mouse call that just showed what a vagina Brady is. Still, it was the right call, as disgusting as that may seem. This was a lot more obvious and should not be an issue. There is a difference between not ever touching a guy and getting a roughing call and clearly tackling a guys knees like Vanden Bosch did. Yet, they were both the right calls.

let’s see, we squeaked one out over the Trojans and the Irish squeaked one out over us…. and I have friends/alums in both camps. (A USC alum niece texts her dad during the SC games with visions of apocalypse if they’re not winning by about 35—the problem with attending school there when their record was something like 42-3 over four years)

Yup, LovinBlue’s low-scoring tie suggestion seems to be the only thing to root for.

And are you trying to poach a guy who’s been coaching for us for all of 6 games? Hey, we took your last cast-off, but I am afraid if Weis worked here Husky Stadium would sink in to Lake Washington.

You’re right, though, about coaching—Sark took a slew of SC assistants with him and Jake Locker, who I had hoped would be converted to RB a year ago, is leading the Pac-10 in passing. Whoda thunk it? Credit goes to the staff.

(Speaking of Pac-10 QBs, I love the fact that when they were seniors, Aikman was 3rd team all Pac-10, even though he was the top pick in the NFL draft and an NFL HOFer. Who was in front of him? Rodney Peete out of USC was 2nd team IIRC, and Timm Rosenbach out of WSU (??) was first team. Talk about QB depth in your conference!)

because its not going to prevent these types of hits and its certainly not going to prevent Brady’s injury.

Vaden Bosch was 1) flagged 2) fined for his hit and STILL doesn’t understand that what he did was wrong. The Raven players were flagged (i don’t know if any were fined for the hit, i know they weren’t for the comments) and I believe one of the Patriots DL was fined for a hit. No player has said, ‘well, i’ll stop doing that!‘, they just say, ’what did i do wrong? we can’t wear skirts.’ etc… So its clearly not making players think twice since they are in active defiance of the rule. And, as we saw with Brady, it only takes one hit to end the season, and that 15-yard penalty and $5000 fine isn’t curing someone’s ACL. The whole point of penatlies is prevention. The NFL would love to never throw a holding flag or a roughing the passer flag. So if the flags/fines aren’t going to be a deterent, they need to come up with something else. Perhaps attach shock collars to players nuts and the officials each have a remote and they can zap an offending player (I’ve made this suggestion before for Joseph Addai, each time he wants to dance in teh backfield or cut to the sidelines instead of shoot up the field, Caldwell could just zap him…).