Miami Dolphins linebacker Kiko Alonso will not be suspended for the hit he administered on Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco last Thursday, Pro Football Talk has reported.
NFL spokesman Joe Lockhart says LB Kiko Alonso will not be suspended for his hit on Joe Flacco.
— ProFootballTalk (@ProFootballTalk) October 31, 2017
Flacco was executing a sliding play when Alonso suddenly came out of nowhere and appeared to have targeted the quarterback’s head. Kiko Alonso’s intent is debatable but it doesn’t diminish the fact that the hit was dangerous as it could have left Joe Flacco with a more serious injury.
Fortunately for Flacco, he’s only suffered a concussion, though his availability for Week 9’s game against the Tennessee Titans is still up in the air. That being said, reports have surfaced, straight from the mouth of head coach John Harbaugh, that the team remains optimistic that the gunslinger will be ready to go sooner rather than later.
If anything, the only price Alonso paid for that hit was an unnecessary roughness penalty in the game. There's slightly more to it than that, as Alonso was also a mostly beloved player to even casual fans, but now the tides on that are shifting a bit. Optics really are, sometimes, everything.
The NFL has made a number of measures over the years from the improvement of the helmets to rule revisions in order to avoid head-related injuries and make the league a lot safer but in a full-contact sport like football, it’s difficult to achieve absolute safety for everyone involved.
Basically, the NFL is trying like heck to make an inherently violent sport, somehow, less violent.
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