Carson Wentz, Philadelphia Eagle

[General_Failure]

I wish the NFL would do something about protecting quarterbacks taking shots to the head.

[Geowhizzer]

https://twitter.com/JClarkNBCS/status/1214002324789694497

[Don Ho]

It's going to take a Brady, Rodgers, Wilson, Brees, to go down with a helmet to helmet until they lay down the hammer and start ejecting people.

[Don Ho]

Skip Bayless
@RealSkipBayless
I'm still trying to figure out how that Clowney helmet-to-helmet hit on Wentz as he was going to the ground didn't draw a flag. Clowney would've been ejected in college football. He got away with cheap-shotting Wentz out of the game

[Rome]

I'm still steaming about that bullshtein last night.  There's no doubt in my mind that was a deliberate intent to injure Wentz, yet somehow Clowney made it off that field last night with his limbs intact.

Imagine someone pulling that with Seth and Jerome on our side of the ball or with Runyan on the OL or with Buddy coaching...

[General_Failure]

What good is a Bodyguard who repeatedly doesn't guard bodies?

[Don Ho]

Peters was to dizzy impersonating a blocking sled to help guard his QB.

[ice grillin you]

i will never for the life of me understand why people are so upset about the play....simply because even if a flag is thrown they still lose the game....a flag doesnt bring wentz back...clowney did exactly what hes supposed to do which is take the opposing QB out of the game and in this case the only good offensive player on the opposing team

that being said if you wanna argue that the cfb targeting rule should be in the nfl then thats a valid beef and one i would 100% agree with

but small picture and just talking about sunday every eagle fan would have been thrilled if brandon graham had done that to russell wilson

[Don Ho]

Correct, Cox, Graham, etc takes out Wilson we are celebrating.  Wentz slides feet first like Wilson does, he finishes the game.  I feel if Wentz stayed in the game it would have been close but once he went out Seattle played conservative football as they knew they had it.  Wentz stays in Seattle airs it out and puts up 30.  Birds secondary was exposed to the nation Sunday night.  Metcalf was beating these clowns by 3-4 yards, no one could stop him. 

[Diomedes]

I'm not even sure it's a dirty hit. 

[ice grillin you]

I'm not even sure it's a dirty hit.

I'm not going there...it was a pretty awful hit...but the fact that there was no flag is meaningless and shouldn't be part of the discussion

[Diomedes]

I mean, it might be.  But there's a lot of leeway given when it's a runner.  Guys are forever coming in just ever so late on a player who is obviously down/going to be down.  Clowney was squarely in that territory...whether it's dirty, I don't know.  He does lower his head, can't see what he's hitting, etc...

I don't know what's anything in the NFL anymore really. 

[Rome]

He deliberately intended to injure Wentz.  There's no room in the game for that anymore.  It's been legislated out.  People have been fined and suspended for doing precisely what Clowney did to Wentz. 

He gets away with it for whatever reason while those who got penalized, fined and/or suspended did not.

The inconsistency is what's galling.   If that was Brady there would have been flags galore, Clowney would have been ejected and likely suspended immediately after the game.

[Diomedes]

Pereira has called it a cheap shot.  I like that terminology best so far.

[General_Failure]

I feel if Wentz stayed in the game it would have been close

It already was close.