Number 11 should have been kicked out of the game, hell, hauled off to jail. That was against the law not just football. Should feel sorry for the kid now but I don't..
Please! He went for his stomach/hip. More dangerous hits happen multiple times a game from peewee to NFL. The outrage is ridiculous. He got flagged as he should’ve, an ejection would’ve been fair but not completely obvious. The injury (liver laceration?) is a freak occurrence, Hunter even admitted he wanted to play through it but the docs pulled him. The pile driver Kamara gave Shedeur in OT was waaaay more dangerous and he was rightly ejected for it. I’m leaning on the refs call with this one.
The thing is though, the Kamara hit happened so quickly, it was hard to pull away from it, even though the targeting was the right call. The Blackburn hit on Hunter was complete BS, even if a lacerated liver is a freak thing. It’s almost like he was told to do it. Make their best player pay, then we have a chance. Blatant is the word and he should’ve been ejected. Completely unnecessary. I’m real time, I thought Hunter broke his hip.
The irony is, I think CSU wins if Kamara stays in the game. They were the better team. But I was fine with him getting thrown out after the hit on Hunter, and I’m also fine with the outcome after that hit. The death threats are ridiculous, and the CU hype does need to die down, but, honestly, phuck Blackburn and CSU.
The contact was inevitable. No way he comes in that hot at that angle and doesn’t collide with Hunter. The lowering of his shoulder is the issue after the ball is dropped (that’s the bang-bang side of it, we’re talking a half a sec here), but these are football players, it’s his natural instinct as a defensive player to lower the shoulder and embrace the contact. An ejection is fair, but I won’t assume his intent was anything more than laying a good hit on a receiver you have to anticipate will make the catch.
In my opinion, an inch or a split second difference in that play and no one is talking about it.
And I’m not trying to support the CSU player for the play. I truly think it was a defensive player playing aggressively with poor timing and a poor outcome and it’s completely blown out of proportion. The Kamara play seemed much more intentional to me as he had him wrapped up after obviously releasing the ball and had no reason to drive him to the ground.