12-08-2008, 03:24 PM
For the record, it was legal.. I will give you that. But in a league where guys play through pain and put themselves in harms way on any given play, to have someone intentionally chop you like that is ridiculous. It should never be tolerated.
As for playing to the whistle, that's fine. But again, it goes to playing with dignity. As far as I could tell, Culpepper had already taken off running and was in the process of throwing the ball as Allen got "blocked" away from the play. I would post concrete video evidence, but because the NFL doesn't like it when clips show up on YouTube or anywhere else I'm just left with what I saw from a few different camera angles during the game.
It boils down to the fact that I thought it was cheap, disgusting and showed no respect for the other players out there. I might cut Cherilus a little slack if he was a quality lineman, but the guy gets beat like a rented mule and racks up false starts like that's what he's getting paid for.
So, I guess I'll cede the arguement to you. But you'll never convince me that what he did was the right way to play the game.
As for playing to the whistle, that's fine. But again, it goes to playing with dignity. As far as I could tell, Culpepper had already taken off running and was in the process of throwing the ball as Allen got "blocked" away from the play. I would post concrete video evidence, but because the NFL doesn't like it when clips show up on YouTube or anywhere else I'm just left with what I saw from a few different camera angles during the game.
It boils down to the fact that I thought it was cheap, disgusting and showed no respect for the other players out there. I might cut Cherilus a little slack if he was a quality lineman, but the guy gets beat like a rented mule and racks up false starts like that's what he's getting paid for.
So, I guess I'll cede the arguement to you. But you'll never convince me that what he did was the right way to play the game.
Where would we be without the agitators of the world attaching the electrodes of knowledge to the nipples of ignorance?