Roy Williams = dirty tackler

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Originally Posted by Mattyk72

Did anyone notice he's still dragging people down by the collar this year? What was the point of the horse collar rule being put in to place? Portis injured his lower back when Williams yanked him down like that on the sideline, and after watching the highlights of the game I noticed Williams had at least two tackles like that on Portis.

I think they really need to look at the rule again this offseason... has anyone actually seen it called this season??

There seems to be this vague interpretation of what a horse collar actually is, I say if you grab the back of the shoulder pads around the collar area it should be a penalty, period.

What do you guys think?

he defiently is a dirty player he has no regard for helmit to helmit hits as well.

As far as the horse collar it seems to me the NFL put the rule in to try and scare players from doing it and cut down on that type of tackle, but really had no intentions of calling it. The thing that makes it dirty and intentional is that Williams does it when he doesn't have to, he goes out of his way to tackle people that way when he doesn't need to, I am glad we had no mercy on the cowboys at the end of thaqt game. I noticed that there are plenty of players on that defense who have taken their que from Williams and are grabbing the collar when it's not needed to make a tackle, and for what ever reason the NFL must consider him an untouchable because he gets a constant free pass.