Nick Piccone
I mentioned this in the Morning Brew, but I think it deserves its own post. Last night, Greg Hardy disappeared. It was fantastic. The guy was a non-factor in the game and became a non-story once the game started. As I write this, there reportedly was no known or spotted organized protests calling for his removal from the team from Cowboy fans. If you want to compare this to Michael Vick in Philly, go ahead – there were plenty of protests against him.
But, we really haven’t heard what the players on the field playing against Hardy have had to say about him. Until now.
“Anytime I got a chance to put a little extra mustard on a block, I tried,” Lane Johnson said. “He wasn’t all that emotional in the game. I don’t know if the stuff got to him on the news, but he seemed out of it a little bit.”
“I felt like I faced better than him. He’s a guy who, when things are going good, he’s great. When things aren’t going good, he’ll shut it down.”
More, this time from Jason Kelce:
“I definitely thought if I had my opportunities I was going to try and give him a little something extra,” Kelce told Mark Farzetta of 94 WIP after the game.
“I am usually quiet and I don’t try to speak ill of anybody else but there are three people that I don’t really have respect for: people that hit women, rapists, and child molestors,” Kelce continued. “Those crimes to me just stick out as you’re taking advantage of somebody who is defenseless pretty much. I can’t get behind that and it’s pretty odd to me that somebody can play that quickly, obviously with all of the evidence coming out now, whether he should play at all. It’s a really bad situation for the NFL.”
True that, Jason. True. That.
