Washington linebacker Jon Bostic will catch a lot of heat this week for his illegal hit on Cowboys quarterback Andy Dalton in the third quarter of Sunday’s meeting between the rival teams.
He was ejected from the game, he’ll almost certainly receive a hefty fine, and he probably deserves a suspension for the headshot he delivered to a sliding quarterback.
But all of that could actually pale in comparison to the blowback that Dalton’s teammates will hear over the coming days about the hit they didn’t deliver.
In the moments after the vicious cheap shot laid out their field general, not a single Dallas player came to Dalton’s defense. No retaliatory blows. No in-your-face exchanges. No pushes. No shoves.
In a thoroughly disappointing season that has already seen historic lows, the Cowboys’ failure to defend their fallen teammate may have been the lowest moment of them all.
It was definitely a hit that caused a disqualification. We speak all the time about playing for one another, protecting one another. That was definitely probably not the response that you would expect, Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy.
As vicious as the hit was, NFL insider Adam Schefter reported Monday morning that Bostic does not expect to be suspended for the play
McCarthy: ‘Not the response you would expect,’ after Cowboys don’t defend Dalton neither d
Washington linebacker Jon Bostic will catch a lot of heat this week for his illegal hit on Cowboys quarterback Andy Dalton in the third quarter of Sunday’s meeting between the rival teams.
He was ejected from the game, he’ll almost certainly receive a hefty fine, and he probably deserves a suspension for the headshot he delivered to a sliding quarterback.
But all of that could actually pale in comparison to the blowback that Dalton’s teammates will hear over the coming days about the hit they didn’t deliver.
In the moments after the vicious cheap shot laid out their field general, not a single Dallas player came to Dalton’s defense. No retaliatory blows. No in-your-face exchanges. No pushes. No shoves.
In a thoroughly disappointing season that has already seen historic lows, the Cowboys’ failure to defend their fallen teammate may have been the lowest moment of them all.
It was definitely a hit that caused a disqualification. We speak all the time about playing for one another, protecting one another. That was definitely probably not the response that you would expect, Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy.
As vicious as the hit was, NFL insider Adam Schefter reported Monday morning that Bostic does not expect to be suspended for the play