Cowboys Safety Fined for Hit on Chiefs Receiver

by Joel Thorman on Oct 14, 2009 1:29 PM CDT in 2009 Campaign Comment 10 comments

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A hit on Chiefs WR Bobby Wade caused a fine for Cowboys S Alan Ball. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Dallas Cowboys safety Alan Ball was fined by the league for his hit on Kansas City Chiefs receiver Bobby Wade according to Todd Archer of the Dallas Morning News. Ball told him the news following practice today.

The fine was $5,000.

On Monday, Ball told reporters that he expected to be fined for the unnecessary roughness call.

You should remember this play because it was huge for the Chiefs. Facing a 3rd and 26 with about 9:00 left to go in the game, and the Chiefs coming off of two consecutive penalties, Matt Cassel targeted Wade in the middle of the field. He was hit by Ball, which drew the yellow flags from the referees.

You know how the possession ended. Jay Ratliff leaped over Thomas Gafford and Mike Goff to block Ryan Succop's field goal attempt giving the Cowboys the ball back for the go ahead possession.

This is the second consecutive week the Chiefs have been involved in a 'Will he or won't he be fined' game with the league. Jarrad Page hit receiver Steve Smith in the New York Giants game and drew an unnecessary roughness call for a helmet-to-helmet hit.

Several days later Page told reporters that the league sent an apology letter to the Chiefs for the call. It doesn't change anything but it does feel good to be right.

Now if we can just figure out what happened on the play where Igor Olshansky rolled into Branden Albert's leg....

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Why doesn't the NFL fine Goff

for unnecessary suckness.

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by Patrick Allen on Oct 14, 2009 1:33 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

half the team would be broke

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisiton!

by upamtn on Oct 14, 2009 1:48 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

“Now if we can just figure out what happened on the play where Igor Olshansky rolled into Branden Albert’s leg…” That’s an extremely loose use of the word “rolled”

by JohnNdallas on Oct 14, 2009 1:46 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Agreed....we need an "Igor Rule" !

To protect offensive lineman similar to the lunging at the QB rule, seriously. There are more OL’s knees and ankles destroyed every year than QB’s.

by CJ-in-2018 on Oct 14, 2009 1:50 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I would have rather had Olshanski fined

For that cheap shot on teh back of Albert’s leg.

About the Chiefs: I'd rather be a realist than a pessimist

by Red N Gold Beast on Oct 14, 2009 1:57 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Third time I'm going to say it... but

To me it looked like Olshansky wasn’t going after Albert, he was going after Cassel there. Albert was collateral damage.

Cassel was in that same camera angle the replays showed, and you can see Olshansky do the “Bonecrusher” launch, except he had no one on him or holding him down… or anywhere near him in fact to justify such a move. If it wasn’t Albert who got hurt, it most certainly would have been #7 going down.

Can I be your Batman?

by IISaiNtII on Oct 14, 2009 2:13 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

And he did

take Cassel down. Much the same way that Pollard did to Brady except whereas Pollard came from head-on Igor came from the side.

by ttownmikey on Oct 14, 2009 2:54 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I completely agree.

I was yelling at the T.V. when I saw this. It looked so blatant that he was intentionally trying to injure Cassel. I can’t believe a bigger deal hasn’t been made of this seeing how he did injure Albert. I mean, I know we’re the Chiefs but that was absolute bullshit. There should be a fine handed down and there should have been a personal foul called. After all, isn’t that the exact rule that Bernie P created?

by Chiefs447 on Oct 14, 2009 5:09 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Even if Igor was going for Cassel...

He was lunging from the ground at him, which is now illegal. I know what you’re talking about from the camera angle, but if you look at it from the live feed it definitely looked like he was trying to go after Albert in order to help the guy Albert was blocking get to Cassel.

by JayrodT on Oct 14, 2009 2:19 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs