bernie sanders supporters. but with such a large pool could a brokered convention be looming? will super delegates end up choosing the momny? after the play miles garret ripped the helmet off his opponent. then smashed it against rudolph s head. he s been suspended. is that enough? in many circumstances, this would be seen as a crime. i want to know what you think. go to my website add smerconish.com and answer this, should he be criminally charged? of nowhere.
terrible decision. but you can understand it was never garret s intention to actually hurt him. so i see that it s terrible and we have to come down on it. but i don t think we re talking suspending him for the rest of his life. it was bad and needs to be punished and then we move on. you look at the impact. by the way the new york post captured it in as only they can on the front cover today. it s amazing that he didn t, you know so much about the head and football injuries. it s amazing that he didn t sustain a serious injury. well, yeah. so you hit somebody with the bottom of the helmet you re not going to deliver as much energy. i think everyone is very lucky that that happened. mason rudolph is coming off a very serious concussion a few weeks ago. you can imagine there could have been a second concussion that might have changed his career and then we re all dealing with the tragedy of a young person who s career is ended by an
modern era of football. do you see it this way? yes. well we re all unlucky he didn t strike him with the top of the helmet and frommingture his skull or give him a severe brain injury. you have to come down hard on the act. we all need to appreciate that if you hit somebody in the head with a hard object, you can kill them and you can t accept that under any circumstances. but there s a lot of layers to this story. one way to look at it, i actually feel some sympathy for garret. if you watch the whole sequence, the idea of ripping off the helmet came from rudolph. he was trying to rip the helmet off of garret. as a former lineman myself, i understand what he was thinking. you got this little guy trying to rip off your helmet. so he decided, i m bigger than. i m going to rip off your helmet. garret walks away. and then rudolph without a helmet on comes after him again. and so then there was this
incident that should not take place. we all agree when we get on the field we could get hurt but that s within the realms of the rules. but when you break the rules that s when things get very bad. but let s remember that this story line is eclipsing the other one around brains, which is that the top two wide receivers for the steelers both suffered concussions on legal helmet to helmet hits. schuster and johnson are both now out. one was penal liesed where the cleveland backgrounds ejected. they delivered brain injuries to very good players that could hurt their careers in illegal matters. those players are not being talked about as being suspended even though they could be out for six weeks with brain injuries. the jez of justice and fairness, there s a lot to unpack. so the police say, we re not doing anything unless mason rudolph comes to us and files a
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