Trent Green

HEROHAMO · Post by **HEROHAMO** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 4:15 am

How about that dirty hit? He should have been fined for that block.

REDEEMEDSKIN · Post by **REDEEMEDSKIN** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 8:05 am

I think the potential brain damage and increased risk of Alzheimers in his older years coupled with the anxiousness it may have caused on his wife and family and a potential end to his career are punishment enough, don't you?

SkinsFreak · Post by **SkinsFreak** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 10:16 am

Nothing against Green, I hope he okay, but I still can't get over what the Dolphins did. I think everyone predicted this would happen.

Letting go of Harrington and Culpepper and passing on Quinn is looking more and more foolish. Culpepper looks fine and even though Harrington is average at best, he still has plenty of experience and is doing pretty well in Atlanta. They should have kept one of those guys and upgraded their o-line. I think they should get Beck in there as soon as possible, if he's going to be the future. Then again, without an o-line, maybe they don't want to get him killed.

Where's Aqua4Ever? :lol:

Mursilis · Post by **Mursilis** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 11:06 am

SkinsFreak wrote:Nothing against Green, I hope he okay, but I still can't get over what the Dolphins did. I think everyone predicted this would happen.

The 'phins have struggled at the QB position since Marino retired, and clearly have one of the dumbest front offices in the league. Attempting to rebuild (yet again) around a 37 year old QB?!?! It boggles the mind. It's not like they were one or two pieces away from being a contender (thinking here about Tampa Bay several years back, when they brought in Brad Johnson to give them enough offense to go with that championship defense, and they finally won a SB). Miami was clearly in rebuilding mode this year, and yet they still threw away a draft pick for a guy KC was likely going to release anyway, and can't help thier team long-term. At the very least, they could be finding out if thier young QBs (Beck and Lemon) are worth a darn, but instead they're wasting snaps getting Trent Green killed. Dumb, dumb Dolpins! :roll:

HEROHAMO · Post by **HEROHAMO** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 11:18 am

REDEEMEDSKIN wrote:I think the potential brain damage and increased risk of Alzheimers in his older years coupled with the anxiousness it may have caused on his wife and family and a potential end to his career are punishment enough, don't you?

I think its time for him to retire. He cannot handle the physical demands of the NFL anymore. That hit was vicious man, also it could have ended the other guys career.

GSPODS · Post by **GSPODS** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 11:20 am

Trent has a career knee-capping people for the Mafia once he retires from the NFL

BnGhog · Post by **BnGhog** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 4:36 pm

I head that they interviewed the guy who did it and he said that he wasn't sorry. Has anyone else heard this.

From what Im told he said that" Green deserved it because he tried to give him a dirty hit". and he said "what if he broke my knee"

Fios · Post by **Fios** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 6:51 pm

This is an excellent piece on the whole situation. I agree that Travis Johnson is being unfairly portrayed here, my FIRST thought when I saw the play was 1) Fox had it totally wrong, they reported it just as Stephanie writes, that Johnson hit poor old Trent in the head. Wrong. And when I say first saw, I mean literally the first time I saw the clip, I heard Fox's lead-in and said "well, that's totally inaccurate." My second thought was "wow, that's a bit of a cheap shot." I'm sorry Green got hurt, I don't relish in that but while putting your helmet into a guy's knee might be legal but it isn't honorable either.

Athletes, sportswriters, me and you are just people. And as people, we are imperfect and make mistakes. Our lives and health can be altered in an unpredictable sick instant. Johnson isn't the worst person in the NFL any more than he should be sainted for doing a kindness for a stranger two years ago. Players like Green and Johnson threaten their careers and health playing a violent emotional game for our amusement. Why we as a society want to cast public figures as either demons or saints is not something I quite understand.

GSPODS · Post by **GSPODS** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 6:54 pm

Fios wrote:This is an excellent piece on the whole situation. I agree that Travis Johnson is being unfairly portrayed here, my FIRST thought when I saw the play was 1) Fox had it totally wrong, they reported it just as Stephanie writes, that Johnson hit poor old Trent in the head. Wrong. And when I say first saw, I mean literally the first time I saw the clip, I heard Fox's lead-in and said "well, that's totally inaccurate." My second thought was "wow, that's a bit of a cheap shot." I'm sorry Green got hurt, I don't relish in that but while putting your helmet into a guy's knee might be legal but it isn't honorable either.

Athletes, sportswriters, me and you are just people. And as people, we are imperfect and make mistakes. Our lives and health can be altered in an unpredictable sick instant. Johnson isn't the worst person in the NFL any more than he should be sainted for doing a kindness for a stranger two years ago. Players like Green and Johnson threaten their careers and health playing a violent emotional game for our amusement. Why we as a society want to cast public figures as either demons or saints is not something I quite understand.

I tend to think most sports pieces are done by that guy in your signature, some guy named Gabbo, who is paid to fill airtime any way he can. Accuracy seems to be less than a priority.

HEROHAMO · Post by **HEROHAMO** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 5:01 pm

Fios wrote:This is an excellent piece on the whole situation. I agree that Travis Johnson is being unfairly portrayed here, my FIRST thought when I saw the play was 1) Fox had it totally wrong, they reported it just as Stephanie writes, that Johnson hit poor old Trent in the head. Wrong. And when I say first saw, I mean literally the first time I saw the clip, I heard Fox's lead-in and said "well, that's totally inaccurate." My second thought was "wow, that's a bit of a cheap shot." I'm sorry Green got hurt, I don't relish in that but while putting your helmet into a guy's knee might be legal but it isn't honorable either.

Athletes, sportswriters, me and you are just people. And as people, we are imperfect and make mistakes. Our lives and health can be altered in an unpredictable sick instant. Johnson isn't the worst person in the NFL any more than he should be sainted for doing a kindness for a stranger two years ago. Players like Green and Johnson threaten their careers and health playing a violent emotional game for our amusement. Why we as a society want to cast public figures as either demons or saints is not something I quite understand.

Agreed. I mean there is an unspoken rule amongst football players. Everyone just knows that is low. If you block low on a guy you have to do it from the front not a blind side knee cracker.

BnGhog · Post by **BnGhog** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 2:34 pm

From a guy that hasn't seen a replay...

Can you tell me if Trent just fell to the ground in front of him, or did he lunge at his knee?

GSPODS · Post by **GSPODS** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 2:38 pm

BnGhog wrote:From a guy that hasn't seen a replay...

Can you tell me if Trent just fell to the ground in front of him, or did he lunge at his knee?

From what I saw it looked like Trent attempted the world's worst cut block.

BnGhog · Post by **BnGhog** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 3:05 pm

GSPODS wrote:
BnGhog wrote:From a guy that hasn't seen a replay...

Can you tell me if Trent just fell to the ground in front of him, or did he lunge at his knee?

From what I saw it looked like Trent attempted the world's worst cut block.

Wow! That sure sounds like an athlete worth millions.

Deadskins · Post by **Deadskins** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 3:22 pm

BnGhog wrote:From a guy that hasn't seen a replay...

Can you tell me if Trent just fell to the ground in front of him, or did he lunge at his knee?

It looked to me like he was going in for a real block, realized the guy had 100 pounds on him, and kind of crumpled to the ground in fear. The side of his head struck the defenders knee, but I don't think he was trying to cut him.