NFL Denver Broncos safety Kareem Jackson was suspended for a hit on the field on Monday for the second time this season.
This time, the NFL suspended Jackson for four games after he hit Minnesota Vikings quarterback Josh Dobbs during the Broncos’ 21-20 win on Sunday night.
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Although no penalty was called on the field, NFL Vice President of Football Operations Jon Runyan notified Jackson that the league determined that he violated Article 12, Section 2, Section 10(a) of the NFL Rulebook, which states : ” “If a player lowers his head and forcibly contacts an opponent with his helmet, it is a foul. “
seemingly in response, Posted by Jackson An excerpt from an interview with seven-time Super Bowl champion quarterback Tom Brady, who appeared on “The Stephen A. Smith Show” on Monday, surfaced on social media on Tuesday.
“There’s a lot of mediocrity in the NFL today. I don’t see the excellence that I saw in the past,” Brady said, citing coaching and rule changes as two of the reasons.
“I look at a lot of guys like Ray Lewis, Rodney Harrison and Ronnie Lott, guys that impact the game in some way,” Brady said. It’s a penalty kick.
“You hear coaches complain about their players getting tackled, but that’s not necessarily why they don’t talk to their players about how to protect themselves. How to get rid of the ball, how to run out of bounds, how to land, how to lower the pads. We The basics of these things used to be worked on. Now they’ve been trying to be regulated. I think offensive players need to protect themselves. Defensive players shouldn’t protect offensive players. Defensive players need to protect themselves. You shouldn’t ask the offensive player to protect him.
“I think a lot of the way the rules work, you can basically play without worries and if somebody hits you hard, you’re going to get penalized. That’s very different from the way I play. I’m not throwing the ball into certain areas, Because I was worried about guys getting knocked out. That’s the reality. “When I played against Ray Lewis, I didn’t throw the ball up the middle because he was going to knock them out and I couldn’t lose a good player. “
Jackson didn’t take Dobbs out of the game, but he did force a fumble that Denver converted into a field goal.
Jackson will appeal, as he did with his first four-game suspension, to a hearing officer jointly appointed and paid by the NFL and NFL Players Association to decide appeals of on-field player discipline. Derrick Brooks had his first suspension reduced to two games.
On October 23, Jackson was suspended for four games by the NFL for hitting a field goal in the Broncos’ 19-17 victory over the Green Bay Packers the day before. On the third play of the fourth quarter, Jackson knocked down tight end Luke Musgrave helmet-to-helmet on the end of an 18-yard reception. Jackson was penalized for unnecessary roughness and disqualified from further competition.
Runyan cited Rule 12, Section 2, Section 9(b)(1) when he suspended Jackson at the time. The rule states: “If a player forcibly strikes a defensive player’s head or neck with his helmet, facemask, forearm or shoulder, even if the initial contact is below the player’s neck, the defensive player’s arm will pass by surrounding or Grab an unsuspecting player and tackle him.”
Jackson was fined four times by the NFL for rough and unnecessary conduct in the first six weeks of the 2023 season. Both fines resulted from on-field penalties.
The NFL fined Jackson $14,819 in Week 1, $19,669 in Week 2, $11,473 in Week 3, and $43,709 in Week 6.
In September, Denver lost to Washington 35-33. On the 17th, Jackson hit Commander tight end Logan Thomas (Logan Thomas) with a touchdown catch with 1:47 left in the first half, and was punished and ejected.
Jackson, a first-round draft pick of Alabama’s 2009 BCS national championship team, is entering his 14th season in the NFL.
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Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter: @AMarkG1.