What do you think of San Francisco linebacker Ahmad Brooks' hit on Brees

[jcstewart]

Whether you think the call was justified or not.

Drew Brees, Peyton Manning, Tom Brady, Matt Ryan, Ben Rothlesberger, Tony Romo, Matt Stafford, Aaron Rogers, Eli Manning, Andrew Luck, or Joe Flacco all get tyhe exact same call in that situation.

If the play looks violent now, it's gonna draw a personal foul.

Ben R rarely gets the roughing calls. Being fairly mobile and big works against you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqVdxmqCMic

[CajunAmos]

This is a good view of the hit in slow motion I saw courtesy of Fox sports. It could be argued that the shoulder did actually hit Brees' head.

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/n...t-lions-111813

[NewsCopy]

San Francisco 49ers linebacker Ahmad Brooks was assessed a 15-yard personal foul penalty for a violent hit on Saints quarterback Drew Brees.

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[NewsCopy]

One San Francisco writer says the Saints won by a 'neck'

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[RCAJUN90]

This is a good view of the hit in slow motion I saw courtesy of Fox sports. It could be argued that the shoulder did actually hit Brees' head.

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/n...t-lions-111813

Dang! Bress ought to call Morris Bart because I'm sure he got whiplash from that hit. I think the refs made absolutely the right call. BTW I loved the belly dance by the Seahawk player!

[CharlieK]

This is silly. The rule says you can't hit in the head OR neck. He clothslined him in the neck. It was the right call, and not really even questionable.

Now, you might disagree with the rule....but that's different. As of now, the hit was illegal.

[RCAJUN90]

This is silly. The rule says you can't hit in the head OR neck. He clothslined him in the neck. It was the right call, and not really even questionable.

Now, you might disagree with the rule....but that's different. As of now, the hit was illegal.

I agree with you 100%. In the 80's that would have just been a monster sack and great play. Now that's a penalty. What really gets grey is when you have an athletic running QB. You are asking a guy that has been trained to do one thing to make a millisecond decision as to cream him or not. I watch Montana's son at Tulane use a pump fake to freeze the defender then run around him. I don't think the 9er player intended to stretch out Drew's neck. If you hit someone around the neck and you're in motion, your arms will naturally go up towards the head. Maybe the NFL should hire psychologist to ask the players after a hit like if it was intentional?

Interesting this call is getting national attention.
http://www.wwltv.com/home/What-theyr...232306611.html

[SlickRick]

The sports world seems to disagree. Not many calls of these nature are still talked about 24 hours after they happen. That's not drama...it's just a bit of facts.

Nah...just hyping a story for a bit of ratings.

[BrockMeaux]

The sports world seems to disagree. Not many calls of these nature are still talked about 24 hours after they happen. That's not drama...it's just a bit of facts.

It boils down to this. For me, it was CLEARLY a penalty, and not just in the "the modern NFL protects the QBs" sense. That was a clothesline and those have been illegal for decades. However, some people don't want to accept that, that's fine. It's your opinion. Where I have a problem, particularly with ESPN's coverage, is people are acting like that happened on the last drive. All we did was TIE the game on that drive. With our timeouts still available and based on the way our defense played all day, even if San Fransisco gets that ball on their 40, do you really think they drive in for a TD based on their offensive performance that day? I don't. Best case for the 49ers in that case, to me, is they drive into field goal range and we get the ball with a minute left with another chance to score a go-ahead TD. Case and point, they got the ball after we kicked our game TYING field goal and promptly went 3 and out and Colin Kaepernick made a pretty dumb play when he ran out of bounds on 3rd down, followed by their gunner making a dumb play when he hit Sproles after a fair catch. Their stellar defense also then allowed us to take our time and pretty easily get into field goal range for the game winner on a final possession. They made their mistakes and it's not like that call ripped the game from their grasp. They didn't execute all day despite us trying our best to give it away to them. This video, complete with a butthurt San Fransisco fan (and a guy from New Orleans who has publicly repeatedly explained that he is no longer a Saints fan), summarizes everything pretty well to me.

[RCAJUN90]

What about the non safety call? It was close and debatable. 49er fans and Saint haters you lost and now move on!

[cajunfan337]

ay carumba

[RCAJUN90]

ay carumba

That's a late hit by Brooks. I guess he's just a dirty player.