WhoDat!656

Hope the Saints are aware of this guy!
********************************************************
A hit from Texans rookie safety D.J. Swearinger has apparently ended the season of Dolphins tight end Dustin Keller.

But Swearinger suggested that he might not have hit Keller as low as he did if not for the league’s emphasis on hits to the head.

“I was making a hit playing football,” Swearinger said, via Andrew Abramson of the Palm Beach Post. “In this league you’ve got to go low. If you go high you’re going to get a fine. . . .

“The rules say you can’t hit high so I went low and I’m sorry that happened. I would think you’d rather have more concussions than leg injuries. Leg injury, you can’t come back from that. A concussion, you be back in a couple in a couple of weeks.”

Well, except for the possible long-ranging effects of what’s referred to medically as mild traumatic brain trauma, that might be the case.

Swearinger’s attitude might not be particularly enlightened, but it is real, and he’s not the only player who puts a higher value on limbs than brains.

Swearinger says rules made him hit Keller low | ProFootballTalk

"A Veteran is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to "The United States of America" for an amount of "up to and including my life."

SmashMouth

Thank you Goodell!

Cruize

Football hit. Is what it is. Stupid opinion on concussions vs. other injuries.

Saintaintso

Was a total cheap shot , guy didn't even try to tackle Keller just fell into his knee and was already aiming for his knee before Keller turned around ... Cheap shots should result in suspensions ... Flagrant cheap shots suck as such should result in fines and suspensions and penalties ... What gives ? Nobody is playing for the Super Bowl tomorrow or the next 4 months for that matter ? What a chump

alleycat_126

That's not the only thing they have to be aware of... But Im really afraid to mention the other..... Get out of Texas with everyone in tact please!!!!

Danno

So to avoid a hit to the head he goes for the knee?

Not buying that one DJ. Sounds like a cheap shot and you're trying to cover your ass with that BS excuse.

dizzle88

How about making a form tackle DJ, head to stomach, wrap up and drive backwards

That wouldnt result in a fine and wouldnt result in an injury either

Feel for keller, looked extremely painful

TheOak

He makes a point you would expect a child to make....

"You told me to be quiet... so I let the house burn down".


Swearinger shouldn't be on a football field if trying to miss the head can only result in a knee for him.


There is a distance of around 4 feet between the head and the knee.... You don't have enough control to hit the middle?


Go to YouTube and search Swearinger hit.... He won't last long in the NFL.

|Mitch|

I just watched the Keller hit and am astounded. Keller was jumping to catch the ball and Swearinger would have hit him in the waist if he wouldn't have went low. There was absolutely no way for helmet to helmet contact on that play.

That was beyond dirty football, kid needs a hefty suspension and fine for that one.

rezburna

As a football player you're taught if the person you're trying to tackle is bigger and stronger to tackle low. Especially as a defensive back. I was taught to tackle low at every level, and my friends were taught the same in college. So to me it seems like some people never played football what so ever, or are just as bad as Goodell. No way I'm trying to hit a big ass tight end like Keller in the upper body if i don't have to.

And if you want to talk about form tackling, a true form tackle ends up with both players basically face to face with the defender driving through. And once again, performing a perfect form tackle is one of the most difficult and rare things in the game. So either some never played, or are just bring irrational like Goodell.

"The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.” - Stokely Carmichael