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DAVIE — Miami Dolphins wide receiver Jarvis Landry has received criticism for his violent, high block on Buffalo Bills safety Aaron Williams.
All agree it was correctly called a penalty. The NFL explained why it was a penalty, but not cause for ejection.
Landry has said he would never intend to injure an opponent. And clearly he felt regret about the result of the football play.
But there is a reason Landry can’t change the way he plays. And that Dolphins coach Adam Gase doesn’t want Landry to change the way he plays.
Because Landry’s mindset, his mentality, his toughness, his fearlessness, it is who he is.
Landry is one of the NFL’s best wide receivers. But pound-for-pound (5-feet-11, 206 pounds) he’s also arguably the toughest, most physical blocker.
“It’s everything,” Landry said Wednesday. “It makes me who I am. I think that if you put on any tape from high school to now, you will see that in all my games, that I play physical, that I embrace contact. For being here, you see guys running the ball like we’re running the ball right now, that’s on the back of 10 other guys. It’s amazing to see. It’s something that we all do.”
Not all do it as well as Landry, however.
Jay Ajayi, the man who ran for 200-plus yards in each of the last two weeks, has said he is inspired by Landry’s actions early in games.
After returning a punt, Landry lowers his shoulder, initiating contact instead of just slinking out of bounds. Landry fights for every yard, every inch, in a way Ajayi has too, the last two weeks.
If you take the Landry out of Landry, you don’t have Landry.
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Your thoughts?
All agree it was correctly called a penalty. The NFL explained why it was a penalty, but not cause for ejection.
Landry has said he would never intend to injure an opponent. And clearly he felt regret about the result of the football play.
But there is a reason Landry can’t change the way he plays. And that Dolphins coach Adam Gase doesn’t want Landry to change the way he plays.
Because Landry’s mindset, his mentality, his toughness, his fearlessness, it is who he is.
Landry is one of the NFL’s best wide receivers. But pound-for-pound (5-feet-11, 206 pounds) he’s also arguably the toughest, most physical blocker.
“It’s everything,” Landry said Wednesday. “It makes me who I am. I think that if you put on any tape from high school to now, you will see that in all my games, that I play physical, that I embrace contact. For being here, you see guys running the ball like we’re running the ball right now, that’s on the back of 10 other guys. It’s amazing to see. It’s something that we all do.”
Not all do it as well as Landry, however.
Jay Ajayi, the man who ran for 200-plus yards in each of the last two weeks, has said he is inspired by Landry’s actions early in games.
After returning a punt, Landry lowers his shoulder, initiating contact instead of just slinking out of bounds. Landry fights for every yard, every inch, in a way Ajayi has too, the last two weeks.
If you take the Landry out of Landry, you don’t have Landry.
More at LINK: http://dailydolphin.blog.palmbeachp...vis-landry-blocks-so-hard-for-miami-dolphins/
Your thoughts?
