# NFL Week 7
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-7/671528
**Category:** The Game Room
**Created:** [October 17, 2013, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-7/671528 "2013-10-17T22:00:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Boggette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boggette)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2013, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-7/671528/62 "2013-10-21T17:33:45Z")
I found the Colt’s punter Pat McAfee to be impressive with his hit this week…
[http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-football/24113064/nfl-week-7-as-told-by-twitter-colts-punter-pat-mcafee-delivers-huge-hit](http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-football/24113064/nfl-week-7-as-told-by-twitter-colts-punter-pat-mcafee-delivers-huge-hit)
“Nice hit, mama!”
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### Author:  [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2013, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-7/671528/63 "2013-10-21T18:17:38Z")
Huh, it would appear Titans owner Bud Adams has passed at 90 too.
> **[Bud Adams, Tennessee Titans owner, dies at 90](https://www.nfl.com/news/bud-adams-tennessee-titans-owner-dies-at-90-0ap2000000267395)**
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> Professional football lost another one of its most influential architects on Monday. Tennessee Titans owner K.S. "Bud" Adams Jr. has passed away at the age of 90. Adams was the longest tenured owner in the league.
I’m sure there are those that held him in high esteem. As a Houstonian when he pulled the Oilers out of town in a stadium dispute, I never had much affection or use for him. But, again, I’m sure there are those who did.
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### Author:  [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2013, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-7/671528/64 "2013-10-21T18:58:30Z")
> [@Boggette](#):
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> “Nice hit, mama!”
He outweighs the punt returner by 60 lbs. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2013, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-7/671528/65 "2013-10-21T19:20:17Z")
One of my most hated players in the NFL should be up for a suspension for yet another cheap shot. Brandon Merriweather had a helmet to helmet shot on Alshon Jeffrey and a led with his head on a hit to Brandon Marshall. Here’s hoping the NFL finally gets their head out of their asses and swats the cheap shot fuckwad with a hefty suspension.
{Although I would be lying if I said I didn’t like the irony of the latest hits coming against the team that employed him last year when he got fined twice for illegal hits)
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### Author:  [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2013, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-7/671528/66 "2013-10-21T19:27:27Z")
[Brandon Marshall](http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap2000000267289/article/brandon-marshall-nfl-needs-to-suspend-brandon-meriweather) agrees with you.
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### Author:  [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2013, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-7/671528/67 "2013-10-21T19:30:17Z")
> [@lieu](#):
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> [Brandon Marshall](http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap2000000267289/article/brandon-marshall-nfl-needs-to-suspend-brandon-meriweather) agrees with you.
I feel a bit bad thinking that the real revenge will come when Merriweather is unaware of his surroundings and drooling on himself and at the ripe old age of 45.
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### Author:  [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2013, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-7/671528/68 "2013-10-21T19:41:30Z")
As a Skins fan, I’m embarrassed to have Merriweather on this team. That one hit (on Jeffery, I think) was unquestionably deliberate helmet-to-helmet spearing.
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### Author:  [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2013, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-7/671528/69 "2013-10-21T19:50:49Z")
And yet Merriweather is quoted saying that they were all legit hits and he’s not trying to headhunt his opponents. The Bears dumped him as soon as they could after they realized he wasn’t so concerned about coverage as he was about spearing the other team’s wide receivers.
Is there a video of the hits from Sunday on any site? I missed the last half of the game and didn’t see them.
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### Author:  [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2013, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-7/671528/70 "2013-10-21T20:15:39Z")
Here is a [GIF](http://nfl.si.com/2013/10/21/brandon-meriweather-suspension-washington-redskins/) of the hit on Jeffery.
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### Author:  [@Quercus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2013, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-7/671528/71 "2013-10-21T20:17:43Z")
> [@Tom\_Tildrum](#):
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> I heard Bill Polian on ESPN Radio talking about this point this morning. He said that the rule change was requested by the players as a safety matter, and that the refs are going to be on high alert to enforce a new safety-related rule, even if it involved something that did not affect play.
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> No idea whether this is accurate or not.
Not to dispute that the rule was indeed put in as a player safety matter, but let’s just say Bill Polian maybe isn’t what you’d think of as an unbiased source when discussing Patriots and NFL rule enforcement. (Hint: who was the person – who just coincidentally happened to be GM of the Colts – that pushed for restricting defensive players contact with receivers in the early 2000s – again it was mere chance this happened after the Colts were repeatedly beaten by the Patriots?)
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### Author:  [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2013, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-7/671528/72 "2013-10-21T20:23:01Z")
> [@Tom\_Tildrum](#):
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> Here is a [GIF](http://nfl.si.com/2013/10/21/brandon-meriweather-suspension-washington-redskins/) of the hit on Jeffery.
Thanks.
Holy cow. If Merriweather actually thinks that’s a legit hit, then maybe someone should check his brain.
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### Author:  [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2013, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-7/671528/73 "2013-10-21T20:30:05Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#):
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> Thanks.
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> Holy cow. If Merriweather actually thinks that’s a legit hit, then maybe someone should check his brain.
The one on Marshall was _significantly_ worse.
ETA: Found the GIF
[ ](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ragVIRZjkjE/UmQ6ip0_xfI/AAAAAAAAAaw/V2Qz3eUWKcc/s1600/fuckmerriweather.gif)
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### Author:  [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2013, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-7/671528/74 "2013-10-21T22:05:00Z")
Good lord, both of those hits are appalling.
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### Author:  [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2013, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-7/671528/75 "2013-10-21T22:26:19Z")
> [@EllisDee](#):
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> Good lord, both of those hits are appalling.
[2 Game Suspension for Meriweather.](http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/10/21/brandon-meriweather-suspended-two-games/)
Feels about right, but I don’t get why these guys aren’t being ejected from the games where they actually commit the fouls. The Redskin’s next 2 opponents benefit from a crime against the Bears, kinda dumb logic there. Doubly so on occasions where a flag doesn’t get thrown.
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### Author:  [@Jules\_Andre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jules_Andre)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2013, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-7/671528/76 "2013-10-21T23:18:02Z")
How come no one is ridiculing Bill Belichick for not knowing the rule changed about pushing lineman on a field goal try? There’s video evidence that his team has done this before in previous games, obviously they were being coached to do this. How come no one will question/ridicule Belichick like we ridiculed Schwartz for challenging that play not too long ago? We always ridicule ignorance of the rules, but Belichick skates. And I haven’t seen anyone in the media with this angle.
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### Author:  [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2013, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-7/671528/77 "2013-10-21T23:30:56Z")
What I read was that Belichick knew about the rule change but had interpreted it differently. At first he said they hadn’t broken it and should not have been penalized. Now he says they were wrong and he takes ownership for the penalty having coached his players wrong. Also reports have surfaced that the refs warned the Pats not to do that after observing it on an earlier kick. When they continued they threw the flag.
But yeah, ridicule him all you want. I’m no fan of his methods.
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### Author:  [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2013, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-7/671528/78 "2013-10-22T01:39:49Z")
> [@Omniscient](#):
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> The Redskin’s next 2 opponents benefit from a crime against the Bears, kinda dumb logic there.
The way Merriweather plays in coverage, teams that throw the ball might actually suffer if he’s not in there letting guys burn him and being too slow to stop a completion.
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### Author:  [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2013, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-7/671528/79 "2013-10-22T02:06:36Z")
I had no idea a sack could actually be amusing. Never seen a reach around quite like that before.
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### Author:  [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2013, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-7/671528/80 "2013-10-22T02:30:10Z")
Wow, Cutler has a torn groin muscle and is likely done for the year and now [NFL.com](http://NFL.com) is reporting that there are rumors that the bears will be looking for a new QB as Cutler’s contract is up after this season. What a bad break for the Bears.
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2013, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-7/671528/81 "2013-10-22T02:40:28Z")
> [@lieu](#):
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> I had no idea a sack could actually be amusing. Never seen a reach around quite like that before.
That was very cool. Otherwise, aside from that punt return TD and two good drives by the Giants, this game has been putrid.
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