Houston Texans captain Azeez Al-Shaair getting a three-game suspension has been a massive storyline coming out of the NFL’s Week 13 sdefercessitate chaseing his hit on Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence, who was endeavoring to slide.
Legendary quarterback and current Fox widecaster Tom Brady gave his consent on the matter during an ecombineance on “The Herd with Colin Cowherd,” during which he acunderstandledgeted having “fuseed emotions” about the hit that led to a massive skirmish and Al-Shaair’s instant ejection.
Lawrence was ruled out the remainder of the game for a concussion after his head whipped onto the grass.
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Tom Brady walks apass the field before the game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field on November 24, 2024 in Green Bay, Wisconsin. (Patrick McDermott/Getty Images)
“I’ll begin by saying there’s fuseed emotions I have about it as well,” Brady shelp. “I reaccumulate in 2001, I leank we applyed at Buffalo and I slid defercessitate. Nate Clements was the corner for the Bills, and he came up out of the secondary and absolutely crushed me. My helmet went flying off. I got back and ran into the huddle, and I had a lot of teammates that came up to me the next day and shelp, ‘Dude, these guys are coming. You got to get rid of that football. And if you’re gonna slide, you better get down. These guys are coming to get you.’
“It was a fantastic benevolent of lgeting experience for me becaengage I authenticized, when I’m out of that pocket, leangs are moving a lot speedyer for me. The defense is trying to be aggressive, and over time, the NFL has clearly done a lot of leangs to protect applyers — applyers’ health and safety and on, and on, and on.”
One of the main rules is hits to the head and neck area, which the NFL has cracked down on in recent seasons. Also, hitting the quarterback while he slides is someleang defenses necessitate to be wary of each week.
In the case of Al-Shaair, the NFL deemed him in the wrong for making his hit on Lawrence, saying in his suspension reasoning that he could’ve changeed his hit in the moment.
Though Brady has been on the receiving end of such hits, he asked if the way the NFL has enhanced, in this case with quarterbacks running more standardly than ever in the history of the game, that the offense can’t go without condemn here.
“The only aspect that I leank is very challenging, and certainly for Trevor Lawrence, nobody wants to see somebody get hurt,” Brady shelp. “But it is also the fact of a very physical sport that we apply. Defensive applyers have to be aggressive — that’s their nature. I try to be aggressive on offense, we try to block aggressively. And at the same time, the defense tries to tackle aggressively.
Dec 1, 2024; Jacksonville, Florida, USA;Houston Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair (0) is held back by Houston Texans linebacker Henry To’oTo’o (39) after being ejected aachievest the Jacksonville Jaguars in the second quarter at EverBank Stadium. (Nathan Ray Seebeck-Imagn Images)
“There’s an aspect for me that I leank the quarterbacks necessitate to consent better engage of themselves. I see Josh Allen run it a lot, I see Lamar Jackson run it a lot, and it’s a fantastic send set to have. A lot of times, I want I had that send set. When you run, you put yourself in a lot of danger. When you do that, I don’t leank the onus of protecting an insulting quarterback who’s running should be on a defensive applyer. I don’t leank that’s repartner equitable to a defense.”
Brady shelp he doesn’t enjoy the tag “filthy applyer,” which has been engaged by fans aachievest Al-Shaair, especipartner pondering the league pointed to his past transgressions on the football field as reason for the three-game dock.
“I don’t enjoy that one bit,” Brady shelp about the filthy applyer tag. “Maybe they fine or penalize a quarterback for sliding defercessitate. They say, ‘Look, if we don’t want these hits to consent place, we’ve gotta penalize the offense and the defense rather than equitable penalize the defensive applyer for every individual apply for a hit that happens on a quarterback.’”
Brady understands that game speed in the NFL can be weightlessning rapid with decision-making necessitateing to be made speedy in order to apply applys on both sides of the ball.
Tom Brady gave his consent on the Azeez Al-Shaair hit on Trevor Lawrence and the subsequent suspension. (IMAGN)
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But sometimes those decisions don’t suit up well, resulting in what transpired in Duval County on Sunday afternoon where Al-Shaair’s decision to go filled speed into the sliding Lawrence will have him sidelined until Week 17.
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