Trevathan Suspended Two Weeks

[pbmax]

Jon Runyan handed down a 2 week suspension for Trevathan on Saturday.

http://www.packersnews.com/story/sports/nfl/packers/2017/09/30/bears-danny-trevathan-suspended-two-games-hit-packers-davonte-adams/720137001/

[call_me_ishmael]

Would have liked to see 8 weeks for the long term health of the NFL.

I think the ship has sailed on suburban kids *playing* football.

Hits like this have no place in the game and make me question whether I even want to *participate and watch* football.

I fear for the long term popularity of the league if they don't stop this sort of thing. I, and I can assume others, don't need those scrambled brains (blood) on our hands.

[woodbuck27]

That suspension of 'only two weeks' is outrageously wrong.

The NFL had an opportunity to suspend Bears LBer Danny Trevathan for at least 5 games or more to send a harsh penalty message to the entire league and blew it.

The GREEN BAY PACKER Organization has to be outraged.

As NFL fans we do not need to see such assaults on the field and the NFL grossly failed here. The NFL is supposedly trying to protect it's players from concussion and clearly have brought shame down on their Head Office.

That should have been a minimum 4 game suspension.

[woodbuck27]

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2735795-nfl-must-come-down-strong-on-bears-danny-trevathan-after-brutal-hit?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=nfl

NFL Must Come Down Strong on Bears' Danny Trevathan After Brutal Hit

BRENT SOBLESKI...SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Comment woodbuck27:

If you have the stomach look at the close up Video of this vicious assault on a Green Bay Packer star player.

[Vincenzo]

Trevathan didn’t intentionally go out to hurt Adams.
Yes he lead with the helmet to Adams’ neck and helmet area which was wrong, but players, especially linebackers are taught to finish plays and often don’t have time to stop and think before they act. Things happen in an instant.
It’s easy for us to analyze and judge now after the fact, but football is a high contact sport.....this stuff happens.
A 10 game suspension would have been over kill, NFL got it right with a 2 gamer.

Also keep in mind that Trevathan apologized for his actions when he was interviewed after the game. He reached out to Adams and said that the important thing was that Davante was okay. So the Bear player regretted his actions knowing full well that he’d done the wrong thing on the field. Surely the NFL took his post game comments in to consideration.

[mraynrand]

two games is perfectly acceptable. It's not like he under-inflated his balls.

[Bretsky]

Trevathan didn’t intentionally go out to hurt Adams.
Yes he lead with the helmet to Adams’ neck and helmet area which was wrong, but players, especially linebackers are taught to finish plays and often don’t have time to stop and think before they act. Things happen in an instant.
It’s easy for us to analyze and judge now after the fact, but football is a high contact sport.....this stuff happens.
A 10 game suspension would have been over kill, NFL got it right with a 2 gamer.

Also keep in mind that Trevathan apologized for his actions when he was interviewed after the game. He reached out to Adams and said that the important thing was that Davante was okay. So the Bear player regretted his actions knowing full well that he’d done the wrong thing on the field. Surely the NFL took his post game comments in to consideration.

I would have said the EXACT SAME THING if I knew a suspension wss coming.

I think 4 games would have been the right call. Often appeals happen and the term gets cut in half. It would not surprise me if Danny plays his cards right and this ends up at 1 game

[pbmax]

Also keep in mind that Trevathan apologized for his actions when he was interviewed after the game. He reached out to Adams and said that the important thing was that Davante was okay. So the Bear player regretted his actions knowing full well that he’d done the wrong thing on the field. Surely the NFL took his post game comments in to consideration.

Trevathan was also defending the hit after the game, so while I am glad he responded to Adams after the game, he still was trying to sell the play as legit. He might have changed his tune later, I did not watch the Chicago press much.

So 2 games is a good marker here. Its almost un-Goodell like. Sane and purposeful, carrying a message to the right party.

[Bossman641]

i think 3 or 4 should have been more appropriate

[pbmax]

i think 3 or 4 should have been more appropriate

If it gets knocked down to 1 after appeal, then I am far less pleased. But I think 2 helps here. No one wants to lose two game checks and have suspended on their resume.

[Upnorth]

Unfortunately this suspension helps a division rival next week. Imo if it is the first game in a division the suspension should apply to the next Head to head match

[Pugger]

Trevathan was also defending the hit after the game, so while I am glad he responded to Adams after the game, he still was trying to sell the play as legit. He might have changed his tune later, I did not watch the Chicago press much.

So 2 games is a good marker here. Its almost un-Goodell like. Sane and purposeful, carrying a message to the right party.

Then Trevathan doesn't know the rule book. It is illegal to lead with the crown of the helmet while making a "tackle" so there is no way that hit is legal no matter where the hit lands because this action is just as dangerous to him as it is to the player he is going after.

[pbmax]

Maybe not, but that has not stopped anyone before. A 2 game suspension will help.

http://www.packersnews.com/story/sports/nfl/packers/2017/09/29/bears-lb-danny-trevathan-defends-devastating-hit-packers-wr-davante-adams/714605001/

“I regret,” Trevathan said, “just the level I hit him at. I could’ve been a little bit better, but you’ve got to understand I was in a momentum, and I was trying to make a play. Nothing intentional. It happens in this game.

“Hopefully, they see that. It wasn’t intentional, just trying to make a play.”

[Joemailman]

Trevathan's argument isn't very convincing. There was nothing unique about that play except for what he did. If it was just the result of a player "Trying to make a play" we'd see hits like that all the time. Fortunately, we don't.

[Brandon494]

2 sounds right to me