NFL Week 6 Sees Two Coaches Nearly Come to Blows and Another Take a Brutal Hit From His Own Player
- Posted on October 16, 2011 at 10:34pm by
Christopher Santarelli
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The NFL had an interesting Sunday wherein one coach left the field in Tampa Bay with a broken bone and torn ligament, and two other head coaches got physical with one-another following the game in Detroit.
When San Francisco 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh went for a postgame handshake with Detroit Lions head coach Jim Schwartz, the victorious Harbaugh slapped Schwartz on the back with his free hand. AP reports that Schwartz didn’t like what was done or said – claiming he heard an expletive – and went charging after Harbaugh. Fox video of the altercation:
San Francisco left Detroit with a 25-19 victory, and in postgame interviews Harbaugh took the blame for the ugly scene.
“That’s totally on me,” Harbaugh said. “I shook his hand too hard.”
“I went to congratulate coach Harbaugh and got shoved out of the way,” Schwartz said. “I didn’t expect an obscenity at that point. Obviously, when you win a game like that, you are excited, but there is a protocol that goes with this league.”
While those watching the game in Detroit perhaps thought one coach could have left with broken bones, New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton tore the MCL in his leg and sustained a fractured tibia during a sideline collision in Tampa Bay. During the first quarter of the game, Payton was knocked hard to the ground after a collision with New Orleans tight end Jimmy Graham.
“I had a couple of guys on me. … Next thing I know I’m rolling up under Sean, I‘m looking up at Sean and he’s on the ground,” Graham said to AP.
Payton got his left leg caught under Graham as he was tackled on the sideline, suffering a torn ligament and a broken bone. The Saints were not able to hold off the Tampa Bay Bucs without Payton at full strength, as New Orleans would lose away 26-20.
“I talked to him and said ‘My bad,’ Graham said. “He said ‘No, it’s not your fault. You’re the one fighting for the first down.’”
Payton will have surgery on the knee Monday and will begin rehabilitation.
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AnnaSergeevna
Posted on October 18, 2011 at 2:48pmHarbaugh has no class.
Report Post »Johnny1943
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 5:41pmHarbaugh is a bigger jerk. He went for 2 point conversion when his team scored 51 points in a blow out. He also had his team throw passes all the way down the field to score in the closing seconds of 2 other games when the games were no longer in doubt. He is going to get his soon if he doesn’t grow up. This isn’t college sonny!!!
Report Post »jessieH
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 12:10pmToo bad it happened. They are my two favorite teams. I can’t wait to see them play against each other in the playoffs.
Report Post »jrcess
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 11:52amSchwartz is an *******. He needs to get a dog and name it life.
Report Post »M13
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 12:06pmIf you don’t like other teams celebrating on your home field, maybe you should have had a better game plan.
Report Post »BURNBABYBURN
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 10:38amEven Wade Phillips got knocked on his butt after just having hip replacement surgery.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 8:25amYou should have seen GA Bulldogs defensive coordinator go after Vandy’s head coach after that game! He lost it!
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 6:53amHmmm…head coach breaks leg during a game? I be worried if I were the coach’s dog now,.
Report Post »Taxpayer550
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 6:35am“Professional” sports has certainly come a long way.
Report Post »HisNameWasRobertPaulson
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 2:18pmYou term professional to mean acting civilly, when actually, in this sense, professional means the level of talent, and performing tasks for financial return.
You post here as an amateur, because you don’t get paid for it. If you did, like when you work for media matters, you do is professionally.
So yes, professional sports has come a long way, in that they get paid a lot more money then they used to.
Report Post »mike3481
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 3:01amI’m a 49er Faithful, having said that, I think Jim Harbaugh acted like a jerk, as rookie coaches are apt to do and he’ll never do it again, especially after his phone conversation Monday with the NFL front office.
What bothers me is the network post-game talking heads acting as if Jim Schwartz’s behavior was the “class move” in the whole episode. Really? Really? He runs down the field and confronts Harbaugh, a yelling match ensues and players, officials AND SECURITY has to separate them.
Yeah, Harbuaugh was a jerk, but Schwartz escalated it by doing what he did, instead of letting it go and then on Monday asking the league to give Harbaugh a heads up on post game ediquette, especially when the 49ers defense beats the ever living daylights out of the opposing offense.
Btw – in the NFL, defense wins Championships. Just saying……
Report Post »Servant Of YHVH
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 4:03am@mike, the one thing that I have to disagree with you on is your statement that defense wins championships. In this I have to disagree, the highest score wins championships, what defense does is to help protect from losing. It doesn’t matter how good the defense is, if the offense doesn’t make any score then they lose.
On the conflict with coaches story. Watching the Texans/Baltimore game, late in the game one of the refs standing on the sidelines knocked down Wade Phillips who was just staning there. Luckily he wasn’t really hurt since he is still in rehab from a hip replacement.
Report Post »Suzee
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 5:28amI am wondering who and where this ‘protocol’ of not feeling ‘emotions’ was first established in any sport. Football, if a person puts their heart and soul into the game, is a ‘game’ (or you can say a performance because after all the payers (fans) expect a product) then that person’s biological system is filled with adrenaline……….the body cannot shut down that adrenaline quickly…..so being exhuberant is actually a way of allowing the body system to calm down. In the gym or any other workout, there is always a cool down period……..it involves continuing the exuberance until the adrenaline subsides……why in football do we expect a different outcome…..where did this ‘suddenly all have to be CALM’ or it is unsportsmanlike conduct…….does not make any sense. I am not saying hurt someone but I am saying after that much adrenaline is circulating, showing exuberance is just a way of allowing the bodily system to cool down!
Report Post »Rojubob
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 10:01amAs a coach, part of you job is to be in control, show leadership and sportsmanship. The really great coaches have that ability and lead by example. There is a time and place for the raw-raw celebration but after the game when you are congratulating your opposing coach is not one of them. Both of these men have the makings of being great coaches and hopefully they will learn from this poor showing of sportsmanship.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 1:20am@motherof18
Report Post »Or a mother of 18 commies. I don’t watch football and motherof18 breads them like a horny rabbit.
Ditto Head
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 1:01amThey’re pulling down about $500 a minute, so they‘re doing pretty well I’d say. By “mongoloid idiot”, do you mean those afflicted with Down Syndrome? The first time I ever heard someone use the term “mongoloid”, they were talking about a person with Down Syndrome. Are you saying that people with Down Syndrome are idiots? Wow, what a compassionate person you are. Would you talk so flippantly if one of your eighteen children were afllicted with such a condition? I doubt it. If you feel the need to analogize hard working people in the NFL with those whom you think are mentally deficient, perhaps the people whose butts are “occupied” with their heads might be more appropriate, but, I’d still beg to differ.
In conclusion, I watched that game, and the incident (repeatedly). They hardly “…nearly [came] to blows…” as the headline of this page reads. Nice sensationalism, Blaze. Schwartz was merely, albeit agressively, trying to convey his displeasure with the poor sportsmanship shown by Harbaugh the Jackass.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 12:40amWhich means more and more they will act like animals.
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 12:13amGrow up , if you can’t take it just leave the NFL .
Report Post »TJexcite
Posted on October 16, 2011 at 11:53pmsurgery on the knee Monday….
Normal person… 6 months in pain and then see a specialist to be only told that you will have a chronic on and off limp for life. Be told that no surgery could fix as it is not nothing but scar tissue that formed in that 6 months and insurance will not cover the 5 figure complete rebuild.
But Sport players and coaches are not the rich 1% to be vilified just rich.
Report Post »Quagmir
Posted on October 18, 2011 at 5:34amYou must live in canada. My brother, Wife and mother all had knee surgery’s. My mom got it from the same doctor who does the ST. Louis rams and blues sports injuries. Turn around time from diagnosis to the cutting table, less then 1 week. I am the 53%. You are the 99%.
Report Post »badgesjacksonSOUNDEDcool
Posted on October 16, 2011 at 11:46pmBoth of those guys reacted the wrong way. But if I had to pick a side, I’d say Schwartz was right to call him on it. They’ll get over it.
Report Post »M.C. Bakke
Posted on October 16, 2011 at 11:40pmReally….millionaires fighting over a handshake?
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The-Monk
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 1:29am@motherof18
Report Post »And whose fault is that? The Banks or the Universities? Maybe Congress is the reason Colleges and University tuitions have risen to such levels? Please tell me who sets the tuition rates at Colleges and Universities? Is it Congress? Is it Wall Street? Is it the students? Is it the Banks? No, it’s the schools that set the rates and this is who the protesters need to protest. You still don’t fool us “commie of 18”.
onegodinkansas
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 7:59amCollege coaches’ salaries are based upon capitalism; you win & you get raises, you lose & you get replaced. The coaches in the college realm make or break an athletic department & the revenue generated in ticket sales, merchandising, media contracts, etc. Academia on the other hand produces to a large degree Flea Party protesters w/ double majors in ‘Fine Arts’ or ‘Women’s Studies’ & demands raises for themselves.
Report Post »LiberalMarine
Posted on October 16, 2011 at 10:57pmAfter Schwartz was talking crap after last weeks game it appears as though he can’t take it himself.
Report Post »UBETHECHANGE
Posted on October 16, 2011 at 10:50pmGrow men? I beg to differ.
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