{"id":8143,"date":"2014-08-25T18:13:36","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T22:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehogs.net\/blogs\/?p=8143"},"modified":"2014-08-25T18:13:36","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T22:13:36","slug":"meriweather-suspended-two-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-hogs.net\/blogs\/2014\/08\/25\/meriweather-suspended-two-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Meriweather Suspended Two Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brandon Meriweather has been suspended for the first two games of the regular season for his &#8220;sixth violation of the unnecessary roughness rule&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Meriweather was flagged for a 15 yard personal foul penalty, for hitting a defenseless receiver (Torrie Smith) in the 2nd quarter of Saturday&#8217;s preseason game against the Ravens.<\/p>\n<p>Personally I think the decision is tough, because Smith went down to catch the ball, but Meriweather did lead with his head, and he has to learn to keep his head up when he tackles. His only option was to not make the play and concede the catch, but its a decision he is obviously going to have to learn to make.<\/p>\n<p>Because the suspension really hurts the team. Especially on opening day.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brandon Meriweather has been suspended for the first two games of the regular season for his &#8220;sixth violation of the unnecessary roughness rule&#8221;. Meriweather was flagged for a 15 yard personal foul penalty, for hitting a defenseless receiver (Torrie Smith) in the 2nd quarter of Saturday&#8217;s preseason game against the Ravens. Personally I think the &#8230; <a title=\"Meriweather Suspended Two Games\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/the-hogs.net\/blogs\/2014\/08\/25\/meriweather-suspended-two-games\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Meriweather Suspended Two Games\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1178],"class_list":["post-8143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-washington-redskins","tag-brandon-meriweather"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Meriweather Suspended Two Games | The-Hogs.net<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/the-hogs.net\/blogs\/2014\/08\/25\/meriweather-suspended-two-games\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Meriweather Suspended Two Games | The-Hogs.net\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Brandon Meriweather has been suspended for the first two games of the regular season for his &#8220;sixth violation of the unnecessary roughness rule&#8221;. 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