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Blandino: Refs deemed Landry's hit 'a football play'

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Dolphins wide receiver Jarvis Landry's crack-back block on Bills cornerback Aaron Williams has drawn criticism league-wide.

Bills coach Rex Ryan said Monday that Landry's hit was "unsportsmanlike" and that the NFL's competition committee should look into stricter rules such as automatic ejections for targeting on crack-back blocks.

"Never need to launch, hit a guy in the head or neck," Ryan added. "They say it's a football play. It wasn't ... I'm sure Landry realized it was a mistake."

He did. Landry apologized during the game, admitting, "I apologized. I just told (Williams) to get better. You never want to see that happen to anybody. ... If I could take that hit back, I would. It's a guy's livelihood."

Landry was not ejected from the game for the block, although he was penalized for unnecessary roughness at the time.

NFL vice president of officiating Dean Blandino went on Tuesday's edition of NFL Total Access to explain why Landry was allowed to remain in the game.

"We have very few automatic ejections in the game today," Blandino explained. "If you get two unsportsmanlike conduct fouls in the same game, if you put your hands on a game official in an aggressive way, those are automatic ejections. Punching an opponent.

"Here's Landry, he's going to block back toward the football. He can't go to the head-neck area of an opponent within five yards on either side of the line of scrimmage. He is going to go to the head-neck. It is certainly a foul. It is certainly something that we'll review for potential discipline, but it's still a football play, and it's tough to read intent there. That's why the officials kept him in the game. It's not an automatic ejection. It's up to the discretion of the crew and they didn't feel like it was flagrant enough to throw the player out of the game."
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rex ryan blowing smoke...automatic ejection? give me a break

i expect a small fine though
 
All I have to say is that Landry better keep his head on a swivel when we go to buffalo.
 
I don't think he even gets a fine. He isn't a repeat offender. That's what they do to repeat offenders. It was an unfortunate accident due to the DB not looking.
 
Joe Schad ‏@schadjoe 8m8 minutes ago
Jarvis Landry said he hasn’t heard from NFL regarding any fine yet
 
Landry is working on a Hines Ward type reputation. Both very good slot guys who like to run block and hit people. Ward got a bad reputation during a time when hits like Landry made Sunday were perfectly legal.
 
nick1 said:
I don't think he even gets a fine. He isn't a repeat offender. That's what they do to repeat offenders. It was an unfortunate accident due to the DB not looking.
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He is not squeaky clean either. Fines in every year of his career and certainly more 15 yard yellow flags than the average WR, hell I would wager he is near the top of the league.

I think he gets fined . . . Nothing major, but something.
 
The coaching staff told Landry to you his head.........

Ozzy rules!!
 
It's one thing if Landry did this on the other side of the field where the ball wasn't being run. This is a whole different situation.
 
Of course Rex wants an automatic ejection when his player gets hit by his opponent's best player, but would he have supported Incognito getting ejected for the unpleasantness near the end of the game? No, because it's his player.
 
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