Ravens don't expect "repercussions" for Lewis hit
The Ravens don’t expect “any repercussions” on Ray Lewis’ helmet-to-helmet hit on Cincinnati receiver Chad Ochocinco.
“Watching it on TV, I think it was in the strike zone [which is below the neck and above the knees],” Ravens coach John Harbaugh said Monday. “But I’m sure that is something [the NFL] will take look at and we’ll find and see. As far as the game, that’s a tough call to make either way.”
The NFL has used harsh discipline before on a helmet-to-helmet collision. Last September, New York Jets safety Eric Smith was suspended one game and fined $50,000 for hitting Anquan Boldin, causing the Arizona Cardinals wide receiver to be hospitalized. In handing out the discipline, the NFL announced it was a “flagrant violation of player safety rules.”
When the league suspended Smith, it was announced the day after the hit.
This would mark the second straight week that a Ravens player received a fine. Last week, defensive tackle Haloti Ngata was fined $5,000 when his arm hit the side of Tom Brady’s helmet. The league announced that Ngata “struck the quarterback in the head area.”
Comments
Jamison,
Do you think the hit is magnified by the fact that OchoCinco didn't have his chinstrap buckled. Those hits look so much worse when the helmet goes flying 10 yards in the air after impact b/c the moron doesn't buckle his chinstrap. I am not saying that it shouldn't have been called a penalty, but the collision itself could force the helmet to fly off, regardless of whether he was actually hit in the head.
Posted by: Chris | October 12, 2009 5:04 PM
He should be fined.
Who cares about Chad Johnson. He should be fined for not knowing the situation.
The game is on the line - "Hmm... I'm gonna try and take this guy out. It might cost us the game but I don't care, it could be called either way, maybe the refs aren't watching.."
Stupid play!
Cost us the game!
Posted by: DunbarDan | October 12, 2009 5:46 PM
Ray used the term "embarrassed", try "ashamed" for that one. Very late and very nasty. Ray has been way off form so far this year. Maybe the shoulder is bothering him. The holes that he is supposed to fill are looking like highways. Filling the holes with a big hit has turned into tracking ballcarriers downfield.
Posted by: CLV | October 12, 2009 6:32 PM
I am NOT like most, I refuse to NOT to blame the refs for bad calls against the Ravens down the stretch in yesterday's loss. Ray Lewis drilled OchoSTINKO the way a football player on defense is TAUGHT and SKILLED to DO!
I remember seeing, as a teenager, Jack Tatum hit a Minnesota Vikings receiver, #85-Sammy White was his name perhaps, in the SUPER BOWL, stood over his helmet-less victim waving both arms at him as to say 'you little by***.' NO PENALTY!
There was no difference in what Ray did yesterday then what Tatum did 33 years ago, when football was FOOTBALL!
The same Jack Tatum paralyzed Stingley in a PRE-SEASON game. Tatum players was a FOOTBALL PLAYER-his job was to separate offensive players from the football-and if their senses got knocked out as well-OH WELL!!!
If I was Ray Lewis I would just retire. He is right, the game is embarrassing now. The game was on the line and if the Bengals dare come over the middle then get your monkey a** knocked out and get up and say ow, that hurt and at least you tried! Don't get up with your caved in chest poked out like your bad and wanna fight, cause you just got the fight knocked out of you like a man, by a man!
The penalty on Frank Walker was lame also. The Ravens were playing football and the refs wanted them to play hopscotch-BULLSH**! The play the Bengals scored on the receiver was WIDE OPEN, ok, congrats SISSYNATTI, because you earned that one by being wide open and avoided being Mike Tyson-ed by some FOOTBALL PLAYERS wearing purple; but prior to that you were getting tagged and whipped and the refs bailed your girly behinds out!
Like Ray Lewis says: "Hit or be hit!" The offensive players job is to get the ball and avoid contact, avoid the tackle. The defensive players job is to SMASH and CRASH and PUNISH! The refs job is to make sure the Ravens manhood is reduced to patty cake patty cake baker man...BULLSH**!!!
Posted by: Me, myself and YOU! | October 12, 2009 6:37 PM
I apologize for some errors on my previous rant about Sunday's game; I'm usually a conscious speller and writer, and I usually take my time and make it clearly legible and sensible; but I am mad about these games and how my Ravens are being "judged" by officials that have huge impacts on the outcomes of games!
Posted by: Me, myself and YOU! | October 12, 2009 6:46 PM
That's a tough call. If Ocho comes down with the ball and Ray knocks it loose, it's a defensive highlight for the week. If Ocho holds onto the ball after that hit, it is an offensive highlight of the week.
But for now it is just another personal foul in a game where if the ball had been thrown on target, would have been a great play one way or another.
Posted by: Jim | October 12, 2009 11:04 PM
So the Foul should be on Carson for making a lousy throw!!!! :-)
Posted by: Trock | October 13, 2009 10:08 AM
Another piece of material for a Ray Lewis highlight reel. Great hit. Loved it. I'd take that over the win any day. Chad Ocho-stinko needed to be sent a message, just like Mendenhall learned last year.
Go Ravens!
Posted by: Purple Koolaid | October 13, 2009 10:14 AM
The hit was out of line , but , if you are going to be flagged anyway , you might as well get your moneys worth........................
Posted by: spy | October 13, 2009 7:10 PM
Please let a Ref accidentally wind up in the middle of one of those hits by Ray after making a "judgement" call on the Ravens. Just once!
Posted by: BirdmanCanton | October 14, 2009 10:25 AM