Burfict will get suspended, it will get reduced to an amount that will not change his behavior, and he will continue to headhunt. Shameful, really.
Burfict does plenty of stupid things, but that hit wasn't even in the same league as the one Shazier totally got away with.
except for the whole part where Shazier's was on a guy that was actually running with the ball. the whole defenseless receiver thing doesn't make sense and is so inconsistent...in the first half, Wheaton took three steps and lowered his shoulder, but somehow he was defenseless?
It wasn't about the defenseless part, at least in this case. It was the helmet to helmet part.
It may have been the cumulative effect of the beers, but I thought Burfict just clipped Brown with the edge of his shoulder pad, and I wasn't really sure he got him in the helmet because it was in the other side of the camera shot. By then the journey to bizarro land was completed and I didn't even see what Jones did. None of which would have happened if Hill had just held onto the damn ball.
The officials ruined this game. You got coaches swiping at players, a different Steeler trying to goad Burfict into something after every play, then Peko running onto the field to shove a guy, some other dumbasssry by both sides. Most of this wouldn't have happened if the officials didn't leave them all milling around the field with nothing better to do than fight each other while they discussed what happened.