Myles Garrett hits Pittsburgh Mason Rudolph with his own helmet: Suspended Indefinitely

[jerniebert]

My favorite Bears player with the simple facts.

 

[THE MACHINE]

LAKE FOREST, Ill. -- Chicago Bears offensive guard Kyle Long expressed remorse over his role in a heated practice fight last week that culminated with Long attacking a teammate with the teammate's own helmet.

"Obviously, what I did was absolutely unacceptable," Long said after Tuesday's practice. "As a human being, as a teammate, without question, what I did was uncalled for and absolutely so far over the line that it was on me to handle that internally and speak to the people that I needed to speak to. I've done that."

The incident occurred during last Wednesday's team scrimmage when Long got into it with Bears undrafted rookie defensive lineman Jalen Dalton. During the altercation, Dalton's helmet came off and ended up in Long's possession. The three-time Pro Bowler repeatedly swung the helmet at Dalton as teammates attempted to intervene. Long also threw punches during the fight and tossed Dalton's helmet across the field after the two were separated.

Long watched the rest of the scrimmage from the sideline and then stayed behind -- per the team's wishes -- when the Bears traveled to New Jersey the following day for their second preseason game against the New York Giants.

"As a rule of thumb, if you're going to use another piece of equipment, don't do that," Long said. "I mean, honestly somebody could get hurt. That's why I'm saying it's unfortunate. Can't happen, unacceptable. Gotta move forward, have to be able to channel that between the whistles."

Long's brief hiatus ended when he returned to practice on Tuesday.

"As you guys know, this is a league about action, it's not a league about talking about it," Long said. "The thing I need to continue to do is go out on a day-to-day basis and try to prove to the men in this locker room that don't know me very well and who have some questions about my character, and just try to move forward and prove to them the man I am on a daily basis. It was wrong what I did, and in a lapse of judgment, that's where I ended up, and it reflected poorly on the organization, the city, the offensive line room and that was never my intention. Moving forward, I intend to make amends."

Aside from last week's incident, Long, 30, had been enjoying his best training camp in years. The former 2013 first-round pick is finally healthy after battling a slew of serious injuries that limited him to 26 regular-season games from 2016 to 2018. And despite being asked to take a paycut in the offseason, Long is firmly entrenched as the Bears' starting right guard.

"The last time I was in pads every day and practicing every day was my rookie year," Long said. "I haven't done that in a long time. And it feels pretty darn good. I put this camp up with any of them that I've been a part of."

Only missed a preseason game for this incident

 

[cartierhoe]

These dudes on ESPN telling me it's alright for a guy to charge at someone but not when the guy running up gets hurt

 

[New Jeruzalem Journalist]

Myles just did what Steelers fans wanted to do all game.

 

[GiantGonzalez]

And then he had the audacity to run up on that man with his helmet off ... I woulda been like, “oh really?”

Magason lucky homie ain’t really connect because he woulda looked like Dusty Rhodes after a Starcade cage match .

Garrett is actually the one who is lucky he didn’t connect better

you can’t really all be this dumb

 

[UserNameless]

Garrett is actually the one who is lucky he didn’t connect better

you can’t really all be this dumb

... Ol’ rather be carried by 6 as$ ... foh

 

[philmonroe]

It's funny hearing all these people on tv say that you have to keep your cool at all times, when we know that they've gotten into fights because of some shyt someone else said.

Basically. SAS cutting wrestling promos because KD said he was liar.

 

[GiantGonzalez]

... Ol’ rather be carried by 6 as$ ... foh

your mother must’ve hit you in the head with a helmet when u were young

 

[iceberg_is_on_fire]

My answer to situations like this are never politically correct.

Don't go from OG to Oh Jesus when your mouth or actions can't back up that energy that you were loudmouthing and hotdogging about a few moments ago.

Open pandoras box and you might find a colossal asswhipping in there. Your fault Mason.

 

[TooLazyToMakeUp1]

he was the only player who stepped up and threw a punch and now he didn’t hit anybody

His heart was in the right place but his hands weren't


Should've stepped up in the game where his QB was getting torqued and throttled for 3 hours

 

[philmonroe]

Yep which is why all these conversations are pointless, rich and poor think differently.

Its not just rich and poor but on and off tv. The views you see on tv are different from ones you get off air at times regardless of income . I won't argue socio economics along with race have something to do with it on these issues.

 

[KingsnBucs1987]

i'm just seeing the because of lebatard. what the hell led up to that moment? why did he and rudolph get into it? furthermore why even wild out like that with a few seconds left in the 4th where yall clearly are on your way to a W?

From what I remember and saw:

Garrett finished the play and drove Rudolph to the ground

While both dudes were on the ground Rudolph went after Garrett's helmet and tried twisting it

Then as Garrett got up and had a hold of Rudolph's helmet, Rudolph kicked him in the dikk

DeCastro separated both dudes but Rudolph ran up like he wanted smoke and then Garrett cracked him with the helmet

DeCastro drove him to the ground and then Pouncey came in swinging and kicked Garrett in the head twice

So yeah, a bunch of fukkery

Honestly all 3 should get suspended (Garrett, Rudolph, and Pouncey)

Wouldn't be surprised if Rudolph doesn't get suspended cause the league protects quarterbacks to a degree

The person I'm watching for is Pouncey cause if he doesn't get suspended, then the league is technically saying you can pile on a dude and put the beats on him while he's pinned down and nothing will happen to you and that just adds more fukkery to it

 

[kdslittlebro]

Seeing lineman protect they QB is one of my favorite things in football. Anyone trying to suspend Pouncey in here

Yea you gotta have his back there, and fukk him up in private if he was wrong (he was )

 

[Conscious Pilot]

 

[Brocka]

You want a good laugh go to Mason's IG. They are killing this dude