Poor Devin Thomas

[SBXVII]

#1: For some reason I thought it was #50 but ok #90 tackled Portis on the previous play and he tried to grind Portis's helmit into the ground after the play stopped. Portis got up mad and had a few words. I'm sure Portis probably said hey someone help me take him out the next play. The play in question was a play action, Portis ran up the middle and while a O-Lineman was on who I think was #90 Portis blasted him knocking him to the ground. I think he got up and was confronting Portis when Heyer hit him a second time.

#2: I truely believe the shot was clean. Campbell was scrambling to the right and had just released the ball when Heyer hit him. If your arguement is he was not near the ball you might have an arguement but the play was still going on. Part B to my believing it was a clean shot was the fact that Heyer did not hit him from behind he hit him from the D players right side. Yes he knocked him off his feet but it was not a cheap shot simply because the player was not looking at Heyer. Hell they even said on another game that if an interception is thrown everyone looks to take out the QB whether in the play or not.

I for one felt it should have been assessed on the kick off. My biased oppinion I know. I sorta felt that if the foul in any way resulted in us scoring then yes TD does not count but it had no bearing on the play and the play was still taking place meaning Campbell was scrambling and had just released the ball when the contact was made.

I just hope that from now on, on kick offs or punt returns when someone slams into a player from the side they call it unessessary roughness and back them up 15 yrs to half the distance.