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What do you think, Terry? Should there have been a flag on that play? I say no, but that's just me.

To answer your question, Kevin, I think there should have been a penalty called, only because the NFL says all the time that it is looking out for player safety especially when it comes to quarterbacks. Which play was more malicious on the part of the defender - the body slam on Vince or the play the week before when Derrick Morgan just happened to grab Jason Campbell below the knee to take him down.
Personally, I wish they'd go back to playing football and not sugar coat everything for the QBs, but they have been super sensitive to that ever since Tom Brady was KO'ed in the season opener a couple of years back.

Let 'em play football. I don't mind the body slam as long as they let it go for everyone. Not this tap on a helmet ='s 15 yard's. Stuff like this use to happen all the time 15 years ago. But it needs to be equal reguardless.

Here is Fisher's take on it from Monday:

(on whether a flag should have been throw)

Yes, there should have.

(on why they didn’t make that call)

You’re going to have to ask the referee. I was wondering the same thing. You say if that happened to (Tom) Brady or that happened to so and so or so and so there would have been seven flags on the field, yes probably. Why wasn’t there one yesterday? I don’t know…maybe it was the heat.

Terry, doesn't that sound like a low number fine wise? Here's video of the play again in question along with Coach Fisher talking about roughing the passer.

My biggest problem is Harrison wasn't alone on the hit... That entire slam was done by three people all three lifting him up and then all three throwing him down. That should have been at least a $5000 fine on all three players. Not to mention they consider that the minimum a malicious hit can be? Seriously, I felt like they wanted to hurt Young or at least knock the wind out of him...