James Harrison has been stopped one video activity without pay by the NFL for his helmet-to-helmet impact with Colt McCoy, the NFL declared Tuesday.It is Harrison's fifth unlawful hit against a QB in the last three conditions, according to the group. Harrison will drop $73,529, the equal of one week's income. He programs to charm the charge, according to his adviser.
The four-time all pro reacted instantly to the headline, tweeting, "Lol!!!"
He included, "Thank you to all my lovers and practitioners, I'm just going to switch on from here and get prepared for my next video activity."
In an appointment with NFL Stay, former Gambling RB Jerome Bettis said he talked with Harrison and that he has no programs to modify his have fun with.
"He informed me he can't" modify, Bettis said.
"He informed me that it was laughable that this was the situation — it wasn't a crazy circumstance but it's laughable that he would get stopped over what he thought was a very, very little occurrence,"
Bettis said. "In his thoughts, 'If I would have really hit him I would have near to broken him out.'"
Harrison said Monday he didn't think he should be stopped for the hit which sidelined the Cleveland Cleveland browns QB with a possible concussion. McCoy was struggling towards the range of scrimmage when he published the soccer tennis ball to a regional device and was quickly hit on the face by the title of Harrison's headgear.
"Well, he took off managing with it, and at the last second he, like, chucked and ducked," Harrison said Monday.
Harrison was flagged for toughing the passer and McCoy would come back, driving judgments from his dad over the Browns' managing of the damage. The Gambling went on to win 14-3.
Among viewers asked these days, 46% of you said Harrison should be ticketed and stopped for the hit, while 26% said he did not are entitled to a charge.
Harrison was fined $100,000 over the course of last period for unlawful hits. The 33-year-old confronted to stop working last period, recognizing that he didn't know how to have fun with baseball under the increasing regulations.
Browns WR Josh Cribbs, individual of one of Harrison's most-publicized KO's of 2010, said Monday he thought the McCoy hit was needless.
"I experience like he didn't have to create that hit," said Cribbs, a former team mate of Harrison's at London Condition. "At the same period, I'm not commissioner or I don't have to create that telephone. We've got to take to the regulations of the sport. I'm sure they'll discover some kind of way to target him."
Fellow Gambling LB Wayne Farrior suggested Monday that Harrison did not are entitled to a revocation.
"I just think it's an act of baseball," Farrior said, "I know it was an unlawful hit, but it's within the structure of the sport. It's not on purpose. Sometimes things like that happens. We comprehend the charge, we comprehend the regulations, but it is a element of the game.
