I found it rather odd when I started checking around sites this morning and afternoon (instead of working) that some Texans fans were complaining that the hit was illegal. There have been far more aggressive and malicious hits on quarterbacks than what Allen did, and he didn’t even mean to. I didn’t hear one person at the Buffalo Wild Wings I was at in HOUSTON, TEXAS complain one bit about it, and they were getting pretty upset at the game.

When Carson Palmer got knocked out in the playoffs a few years back, people questioned the legality of that hit, and it looked twenty times worse than this one. I just can’t understand why people complain so much. It’s football, so it happens. It’s unfortunate, but it’s the nature of how the game is played. Quarterbacks step into throws and defensive players are trying to hit the quarterback. Sometimes people dive, and legs are involved in the tackling process. Just because someone gets hurt does not mean it’s automatically something done on purpose.

Do I think Jared Allen was trying to put some pain into ol’ Schauby? You bet. Do I think he was trying to injure him? Of course not.

But it happened.

So deal with it.

I agree that the hit was nothing more than bad luck for Schaub. Kevin Williams wasn’t able to see that Jared Allen had slipped to the ground, then lunged for the quarterback. It was totally accidental. And no, I am not being sarcastic.

What I see, especially in the real time portion of the video, is Allen bringing his arms in to prevent from grabbing at Schaub’s knees, which says to me that he was doing everything possible to keep from hurting Schaub.

we’re talking a viking here, and a play that could be considered questionable at most, and the commisioner, umm whatever his name is (i’m being condescending, i really know his name), so we’re looking at a $100,000 fine, and a four game suspension with no pay. but hey, thats okay right?

but seriously, i can see where they might be upset, but honestly looks like an accident to me, if anyone should be complaining we should be about him hitting allen in the head with the back of his knee.

Jared was on the ground getting up to finish the play. Obviously the whistle didn’t blow and from a kid you are taught to play to the whistle. By the time Allen knows the throw is off he is on his way down to the ground and even looked like he was softening up rather than finishing when he realized the throw was gone. If he wanted to hurt MS he would have had his upper body stiffer and following thru hard. Which he wasn’t.