For fucks sake.
I wasn't planning to make a post about this but it seems my hand has been forced. My thoughts on the subject have already been posted by better (and professional) reporters so I'm going to let them do the talking.
Stephanie Stradley at FanHouse writes:
"Many of the media accounts of this event are factually wrong, incomplete and I would suggest, deliberately provocative. [...] These accounts make it sound like it was Travis Johnson who actively hurt Trent Green, and not that Green concussed himself making a legal but unwise block.
In addition, receiving the ref's judgment call of a "taunting penalty" is different than taunting someone in some sort of schoolyard way as implied by the articles. As he made his way back to the bench, he yelled at the guy who hurt him.
Most of the pictures that fans saw after the fact were Green carted off the field and not the actual violence of the collision. Or the photo of Johnson walking by Green, which from the angle makes it look like he was standing still over him instead of walking by."
Jerome Solomon of the Houston Chronicle writes:
"Johnson might not have been the one carted off the field with a concussion after what Texans coach Gary Kubiak describes as a "nasty collision," but he certainly came close to being the one in need of medical attention. Give an inch here or there, and Johnson would have spent Monday morning on an operating table.
So understandably, he was a bit peeved that Dolphins quarterback Trent Green went low with what is a legal but potentially dangerous block. That block is illegal on kick returns and change-of-possession plays. With Ted Ginn dribbling the ball in the backfield Sunday, this was as close to those types of plays as you will get, but technically, it was just a running play. Don't be surprised if the league bans this type of block on reverses next offseason.
Johnson says he didn't jump up and point at Green to say, "Glad you're hurt, pal." His immediate and justifiably heated reaction was to say, "Hey pal, what are you doing? You can hurt somebody like that." And maybe there was an expletive or eight tossed in for flavor."
But hey, whatever, getting in line behind sensationalist journalism is fun. It's not like there could be more than one side to a story, right?
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Ok, maybe this will make you understand my point. Hypothetically, if Trent Green HAD hurt T.J., and Green got up and saw he hurt T.J. he would not have stood over his body and yelled at him for kneeing him in the head. And if for some blasphemous reason he did, I guarantee he would have taken the time out of his post game conference to either apologize or wish him well.
The league protects its Quarterbacks, but also expects them to lead by example. The same is never expected from any other position player without them having to be told.
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