...respect to the Seahawks medical staff who jumped out onto the field and practically shielded Cooks seemingly before the play was completely over for all players involved. That was nice to see.
I'm with you here, after such a disgusting hit their medical staff were instantly on the field, they knew that the hit was bad. It was good to see them there trying to help.
We need to start suspending defenders doing a blatant hit to knock out WR's..8 games?
He should have been ejected for the hit, with a post game review of the tackle, to me it was obvious that he went in for a "headshot" on Cooks, lowering his head and shoulder into Cooks, who didn't even know the hit was coming, full weight from shoulder to neck, head to head, with no arms is not a clean hit. This sort of hit should definitely be a minimum of a 4 game ban, without pay, but with the potential of a more severe ban depending on the hit, otherwise I can see fringe players being brought in to "take-out" opposition players.
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what a horrible "tackle". let's call it what it was, a shoulder charge. if a player did that at speed like this in the national rugby league he would be suspended for weeks. if the nfl was worried about player safety it would ban this type of tackling. the only way players will learn how to tackle properly is to sit for a while and think about it while they lose game cheques.
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It's the same in Rugby Union also, you can't do a shoulder charge, you have to use arms etc, I'm not quite sure of the actual law, but the NFL needs to review the table area - you can't have these "execution" style hits.
