Buccaneers game is Bruce Arians slapping, the helmet of and or
throwing an elbow into the shoulder pad of and or pushing
the chest of a player
who's doing something that Bruce, Arians doesn't want to
do. Because he was fined, 50,000 dollars for his
interaction with Andrew Adams on Sunday against the Eagles.
When Adams was trying to pull an eagles player off the pile
after a muffed punt by Jaylon rhaegar.
Aaron's was trying to keep the foul from being called because
you can't pull an opposing player off the pile when
they're trying. To get the football. Arians fined 50,000.
Here. He is yesterday addressing the news that came
down just moments before his press conference.
I guess, the league has finding fifty thousand dollars for your
encounter there. On the sidelines with Andrew Adams.
You plan to appeal it, you have anything else to say about what
you're trying to be their
dad our appeal. It and
it ain't got nothing to do with the game. So we're good.
That was all he had to say about it, and I don't know why
he's appealing it. Chris. He doesn't have a union is no
independent arbitrator. The league made the decision. It's
just going through the motions. I think they're not going to
change their mind on.
No, no way. Now wipe it away. I don't know. I don't know why.
You just don't write the check and move on. Yeah,
and, you know, we talked about it earlier in the week. I think
there's a bright line that you can't cross, regardless of what
he's trying to do here. I
just can't do that. You can't do that. We have not seen that
in the presence of cameras by an NFL coach, in a very long
time and and the NFL needs to send a message.
To the coaches at every level of the sport where that line
is, you can't do it. And I think that's what this really
was. It was a message to extent the NFL believes that
everything, it does sets the tone for football at every
level.
That's why that fine was imposed. So that Youth Level coaches.
Remember that there is a line there now that you can't cry.
I think so. I mean, if you're going to have taunting and and
claim the whole taunting issue and all that is about being
role models for
the young kids. And
yes, this is a part of it. No question
and and Yeah. Yeah, it's very rare.
This this stuff kind of
went out of the football DNA and culture. When I was I'm
gonna say high school, you know, late 90s, where it was
like, starting to be a No-No, you know, even grabbing
a player by the facemask and going, what the hell are you
doing MBA? Like that started like, whoa, he
did that, you know, that was becoming, you know, very dicey.
So we, you're right. We haven't seen anything like this in
a long time. Like I said, I think yesterday, or Monday a little
bit, if there's one guy that can get away for with it a
little bit, it. Him, you know, I still look at that play and
just go,
you know, one of the really like Adams reaction. I think
tells you a little bit about like, Bruce Arians the fact
like atoms, like he knew he was wrong and he's like, I know my
coach is psycho. I probably deserve that right hook to the
head and he kind of went about his business. He wasn't even
like shocked or anything about it. So what else you gonna do?
I know you're not I've had people say to me. Oh what you
know that players should have kicked his ass and
you know, somebody asked me if they what would Rodney Harrison
have done if Belichick did it will riding for whatever.
You're part of this this structure where there's
a certain amount of abuse, the
right. It seems right inherently, abusive
relationship. Usually it's verbal. Yeah, but what are you
gonna do? You gonna beat up the coach because the coach smacked
in the helmet know you're going against everything. You've
been, you've been led to believe your role is
your, you are in a subordinate position. So I don't think any,
I don't think any coach would take a real risk that they're
going to get their ass kicked by a By doing that the players
are wired to take it. That that that's
all the more reason for that. Bright line to be there. Yeah.
No, I think you're right. The players are going to take it.
You're right. Most guys in the NFL team, especially if you did
something stupid. I think a lot of them could take that kind of
abuse.
I do not to say it's right, but I think a lot of them, you
know, to your point the culture of the, you know, the NFL and
football is a little bit, you know Sergeant General ish and
you take your orders and commands and sometimes you get
yelled at and mf2 and whatever
and you got to take your lumps that way. I think what? You
said, is the real thing. I think a, the modern-day really
good coach
has some players, like a Rodney Harrison
on his team, that police those things themselves, and don't
let them go down. And I think the Bucks have some of those
guys, just maybe they weren't around the scrum there to do
that. But I think that's not more than normal, or at least
the thing you see more now than ever
is that, you know, veteran
mature presents who's totally bought into the coach and
the organization. He's the guy that goes there and get some Face of
atoms and goes
dude. What the hell are you doing? And you bear hug them
and you get them away and go this isn't, you know, you give
him the speech that way. That's usually how it goes down, but
it was a little weird because it was right by the sidelines,
Aryan was so close.
That even with his partially torn Achilles.
He could get over there and throw a right hook.
Hey, it was the, the claim that Urban Meyer kicked Josh Lambo
in a late August practice with no video to support it. That
ultimately, I believe was the final straw for him in
Jacksonville, even though the Jaguars have tried to deny it.
It and I think back to other interactions we've seen on camera.
Remember a few years ago back before Brian Kelly developed. A
spontaneous southern accent when he would turn like head.
Yeah, and purple, right? Blue
and scream and he wasn't, I don't know if he did. The
facemask grab. I think one time. There may have been
a facemask grab. I can't remember that as much as he was active
face. Yeah. He went, he went Joseph's. Multi-coloured
Technicolor Dreamcoat all on his
face, right yelling at her yelling at somebody and we
thought that's that maybe a little bit too. FR here coach
at maybe, especially for guys who aren't getting paid. Yeah,
maybe go a little too far, right? So, so there's a line
and I think the easiest line to police is Thou shalt not lay
hands or feet.
Yeah. We're grab face masks of your players.