Aqib Talib said that Super Bowl 50 was the “funnest” game he ever played in, but if NFL commissioner Roger Goodell had his way, Talib wouldn’t have made it out of the first half. Talib viciously facemasked Panthers receiver Corey “Philly” Brown near the end zone, drawing a personal foul that he admitted he committed on purpose.
“It was B.S. flags,” Talib said of his two personal fouls. “One was on our sidelines [for taunting] — the guy [Brown] was talking on our sideline. One I just did on purpose, and I just had to show him. It’s probably going to be a fine. But, hey, we’re world champs.”
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Talib even revealed the strategy behind his dirty play.
"My teammates knew what it was. He was on the three-yard line. [With] a personal foul, he was on the one-and-a-half-yard line, so it is what it is.”
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Goodell said in his Friday press conference that he would like to see two personal foul penalties trigger an automatic ejection, so that fiascos like Talib’s facemask, or Panthers cornerback Josh Norman’s game-long battle with Giants receiver Odell Beckham Jr., don’t escalate. Until then, Goodell may want to send a message to Talib about his penalty by issuing a strong suspension.
Talib could have seriously injured Brown’s neck by wrenching it so hard, and the NFL set a precedent for handling egregious hits from players with reputations for dirty play when they suspended Bengals linebacker Vontaze Burfict three games for knocking out Steelers receiver Antonio Brown on this hit in the AFC Wildcard round.
Beckham was suspended one game for this hit on Norman.
Talib’s reputation is certainly more stained than Beckham’s, and at least on par with Burfict’s. By admitting he purposefully endangered another player’s safety, and calculated it so much that he considered the field position, Goodell should take action and hit him with the same suspension he doled out to Burfict.
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