I would need corroboration from someone else that was in the pile. He-said-He-said is just a no go for me. Clearly Rudolph was pulling Garrett's helmet off first, and that alone should be reason enough for what happened next. Not condoning, but it is a reason. But I just knew the racial slur thing would show up sooner or later. I hate to be cynical of it, or "attack the victim" here, but we all knew that was going to come up.
Racial slurs or not, Rudolph is a [itch bay]. Garrett should have just thrown a left and knocked his ass out, though.
I'm not buying that there is this widespread rash of people just making up racial slur use as a "get out of jail free card." Same with rape accusations.
Garrett finished the play, didn't piledrive in the ground like he could have and then Rudolph started clawing at Garrett like a girl. [uck fay] him. Pouncey shouldn't be fined or suspended in my opinion
Did Garrett forget about him using a racial slur until the appeal process? Seems if Rudolph did use a slur and Garrett was angry enough to try to cave his skull in with a helmet, something would have been mentioned immediately after the incident.
Even if he did use a racial slur, I'm not sure that's enough to let Garrett off the hook for turning his helmet into a weapon against him.
We had a on this very site make an insane racism claim and take it to real life a few years ago. It happens.
A former Jewish poster called hatvol’s work to report him as a racist because he frequently disagreed with him and didn’t like Bruce Pearl.