Ravens fourth Teamer, Antwan Barnes is trying to make the team, and in an effort to show what a big tough man he is he unleashed a cheep shot on the Eagles punter. (See the Video Here)What Antwan doesn't know is that the best way to impress the Ravens defense is to have your boys kill two people and then roll over on them. It is the job of every special teams player to block any player (the punter included) after the ball has been kicked. But, leading with your helmet is what you do when you are a dick, or trying to hard to make the team. Let's give Twan the benefit of the doubt and say he's trying to make the team.
In this case however, the punter was not defenseless. If you watch the video, you notice that Saverio Rocca pops right up after the hit. And he could do this is because he's been hit way harder, by guys who are way bigger before, and when those hits happened he didn't have pads or a helmet on. Sav Rocca is a Footy player, and at 6-5, 265 pounds he's the one who looks like a Linebacker. Barnes is 6-1, 240 and would stand little chance of landing a hit like that, if it wasn't from the blind side. To put it in American terms, that's not a hit... That's a hit! Take a look at some of those Footy hits and you'll realize that NFL football is not the only vicious hitting game around.
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Now to be clear, those guys fell on their knives as there were no convictions in that case. We all know what a great criminal justice system we have so that had to be what actually happened....
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