Tomlin and Art met with Goodell.

[Steelhere10]

To discuss legal hits.

[msp26505]

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I hope they asked why the Steelers have been penalized AND fined repeatedly for these hits while other teams' hits on the Steelers have been fined much less often and are almost NEVER penalized.

Ben. Hines. Heath...we can all think of examples.

The most infuriating part of this is that TWICE the other team has CHALLENGED what should have been called a penalty and automatic first down, and the Steelers have had catches reversed.

Goodell can shove it up his arse.

[DukieBoy]

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I hope they challenged why Ben is getting pounded on late and very late hits without penalty to the opponents.

[Steelgal]

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James Harrison was on Sirius radio this am. Didn't hear the whole interview, just an excerp. He talked about how he's all for player safety, but he doesn't feel the teams are being treated equally. I doubt he said anything we haven't all said on here. I hope Tomlin and Art meeting with Goodell with have an affect, although I doubt that it will.

[SanAntonioSteelerFan]

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Any official word on this meeting ... why it took place, etc.?

[RuthlessBurgher]

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Any official word on this meeting ... why it took place, etc.?

My guess would be when it was made public that Tomlin used the Clark hit as an example of a good, clean, hard hit in team meetings (and then Clark was fined $40K for it).

[BradshawsHairdresser]

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Hopefully in the meeting Mikey got to demonstrate a legal hit, and laid King Roger out.

[hawaiiansteel]

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Rooney, Tomlin meet with Goodell

Posted by Mike Florio on November 18, 2011



In the wake of last week’s disclosure by Steelers safety Ryan Clark that the hit for which he was fined $40,000 previously had been shown to the team by coach Mike Tomlin as an example of the proper way to dislodge the ball, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell met Thursday with Tomlin and Steelers owner Art Rooney, according to Jay Glazer of FOX.

Per Glazer, the meeting was aimed at allowing the Steelers and the league office to get on the same page regarding the issue of illegal hits.

It makes sense. Coaches have been largely overlooked when it comes to the frustration expressed by players when it comes to the flags thrown and fines imposed by the league office. Many players, when complaining publicly, are merely echoing things they hear in meeting rooms.

And so the league office needs to be sure that the teams — specifically, the coaches — understand the importance of teaching the right techniques to players. Given Clark’s comments regarding Tomlin’s characterization of a play that cost Clark $40,000, that’s apparently not happening in Pittsburgh.

It’s likely not happening elsewhere, either. Under current rules, the coaches don’t get fined. So why should they risk neutering their players?

The only way to ensure that proper techniques will be taught will be to hold coaches personally responsible and accountable for failing to teach proper techniques. Thursday’s meeting possibly represents the first step in that direction.

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[Scarletfire1970]

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I think the Clark hit was clearly helmet to helmet.

[flippy]

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Harrison said they hit the way Lebeau tells them to hit.

Why hasn't Lebeau been called in?

[SanAntonioSteelerFan]

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I think the Clark hit was clearly helmet to helmet.

I agree.
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But the thing is the ref said it was "Unnecesary roughness ... defenseless receiver".

I'm so ignorant ... I thought Rooney and Tomlin initiated the meeting to complain about the officiating ... from the article above, it looks like they were taken to the woodshed.

Funny it was the Steelers that got called in, not Ray Ray on Roger's favorite team.

[Sugar]

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I still say it was clean. You can see him drop his head to lead with his shoulder.

[skyhawk]

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Legal hit.

This is complete garbage. If any helmets hit it was the guys facemask MAYBE.

A non-issue 3 years ago.

Wasn't Heath Miller a defenseless receiver? That one was also legal in IMO, but where is the consistency?

[winwithd]

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I just watched replays of both hits in that game and Ray Lewis was head-hunting. It is pretty obvious he made no attempt to hit Hines in the body or dislodge the ball. Clark was clearly trying to dislodge the ball as he led with the shoulder into the receivers arms.

Chris Collinsworth had it right when he states that Lewis hit a defenseless receiver and on the other play says in another time Clark's hit would only be called a great play.

We still would have won that game, if not for Clark's lousy judgment in the last seconds and not getting back deep in coverage. No doubt there were bad calls both ways by the officials in that game. I thought the hold on Gay on the opening play was a bad call and it seemed like the officials decided they needed to make it up to the Ratturds by screwing the Steelers in critical situations with bad calls the rest of the game.

I am very confident that even if we play the Ratturds on their field in the playoffs we can beat them, because we nearly beat them even when they benefitted greatly by some bad calls.

Its frustrating that an officiating crew which is that poor is allowed to do such a big game. They should be given something like Jacksonville-Indianapolis when they have such a poor track record. The head official couldn't even get the call right on the Torrey Smith TD. He initially announced that it was a Baltimore first down and not a TD. The proper call on that play should have been offensive interference. But if Clark plays it right it should have been an INT.

Goodell needs to be replaced by someone who has a clue. I wish someone would say 'to heck with the fines' and stand up to him and publicly call him on the hypocrisy. Is there any way to put him on trial for incompetence and remove him from his post?

[JDSteeler]

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Just the mere fact that we are even talking about this, makes me want JUMP OFF THE
NEAREST BRIDGE!!!

WTF has the NFL become??????

Its a contact sport!!!!!

If the H to H contact is NOT intentional, then its a LEGAL hit!!!!

Some part of the helmet is always going to hit another player!!!

I'm just so sick of this $hit!!!

Geez, the LFL has more hitting, than the wussie NFL!!!!

Goodell is the worst thing that ever happened to football!!!

When can this guy retire, or get freaking fired, or DIE!!!!!

JD