Fisher Defends Haynesworth's "Roughing"

I'm glad to see that Coach Fish is standing behind him. People are still calling it a helmet to helmet hit and if you watched the replay clearly is wasnt. His head was to the side. Also I wanted to laugh when the guys in the booth said he drove him into the ground. Well sure he did, but thats what happens when a 300+lb man hits a 200 pounder. At contact he stopped driving his feet and just took him down. All around it was just a good hit and a very suspect call IMO.

 

Well, somebody has to protect the Cowbabies.

 

(First post-Hello everyone)
Its funny but to me when i read that it dosen't seem like he is really defending him. I do believe that haynesworth is being targeted. The media keeps saying it is a helmet to helmet hit that put schaub out of the game but his injuries are to his hip and ankle. What does everyone else think?

 

It was not helmet-to-helmet, in the sense that the rule was made. To stop head butts. He ran straight up into Schaub, wrapped him up, and came straight down. Sure, with some force, but that's football.

Roughing the passer might could be justified, but not helmet-to-helmet.

 

I don't really mind the call - it's tough for a ref to tell sometimes, and that is serious enough that I don't mind it called when it just appears to be too close. I do wish some calls like that were reviewable, since it clearly wasn't helmet to helmet. I also wish refs would be consistent about it - there was a clear helmet-to-helmet hit on a kickoff monday night that wasn't called. We've seen Vince get dropped with nothing called for things much worse than what we've seen AH or KVB called for.

AH just put on a fantastic hit. He didn't do anything extra to drive him into the ground, it wasn't late at all. It was just a perfect head-on hit, and he even had the forethought to keep his head over Schaub's shoulder to avoid helmet contact. Glad Fish is sticking up for him.

 

I wonder how is it that he was supposed to stop him momentum after he's made contact with the QB, and they are on the way down. AW had the law working against him......The Law of gravity. It was called a HTH hit b/c that's all the sumbeaches could think of at the moment. It was a clean hit and everyone knows it, including those biased azz blind as a bat refs. (that call pissed me off, can u tell?)

 

those aren't supposed to be called because the league says the QB is in a defenseless position, so they put skirts on them.

 

clearly not a helmet to helmet hit