Ravens Bounty Talk

[.GR]

Fires burn across the NFL map. Yesterday, the league dispatched two vice presidents to put out a growing blaze in Pittsburgh, and another one popped up in Baltimore. Ray Anderson, the NFL's executive vice president of football operations, met with Steelers coach Mike Tomlin, his captains and Troy Polamalu to try to ease their concerns about recent comments players have made about the league. Anderson emerged from that and revealed the NFL is investigating comments made by Baltimore's Terrell Suggs that the Ravens had a "bounty" on Steelers Rashard Mendenhall and Hines Ward. Suggs agreed recently with a syndicated sports radio talk-show host who asked if the Ravens had a bounty on Mendenhall, the Steelers' rookie halfback who was knocked out for the season when Ray Lewis tackled him and broke his shoulder Sept. 29 in Heinz Field. "The bounty was out on him and the bounty was out on 86 [Ward]. We just didn't get him between the whistles," Suggs said.

 

[dez]

I dont think their out to intentionally hurt him, just hit him as many times as they can, as hard as they can.

I think the Mendenhall injury was a freak accident, we all know Ray Lewis is one of the hardest hitting LB's of all-time.

 

[Giantmetfan07]

I think when a player says they put a "Bounty" on someone, they mean that their the spotlight, take them to the limit, hit em hard and keep them contained at all means necessary.

 

[Whisper]

Not surprised by the hard hits specifically for Mendenhall or Ward. Especially Mendenhall, even if it is just a joke as a rookie you don't say that you're going to run all over the Ravens defense. I'd lay out the wood on him too.

 

[Giantmetfan07]

i think that this was only in the media because of a misinterpretation of the word "Bounty". Really, mos people look at the word as killing the person, or some sort of inflicted injury. THen come game time, and an injury does occur. I think its coincidence, and mainly because the "Bounty" is just hitting the player harder to contain them and take that factor out of the game. Then due to the more physical and tighter play, the player does in fact get injured. Coincidence, only due to tougher play, and its misinterpreted and people start to think it's in some way controversial or illegal or w/e. I personally dont have a problem with it. When i play football once a week with my friends, i usually put a bounty on the opposing teams key player (usually the captain, hehe), so i understand.