Good Lord, the last thing I want to do is get in the middle of a Baltimore/Pittsburgh feud. Talk about a fight with no one worth cheering for. (I hope you see I’m having fun with this).

If you think a crack-back block is an act that proves your toughness, we’ll just have to agree to disagree.

If he takes big hits, goes over the middle and makes catches in traffic. Hey, that’s tough.

But in my mind, a blindside hit is not tough. And again, from what I see, read, and hear — people are always praising him for it. It’s fun to watch, but it’s not “tough”.

You see a lot of guys go low, or go at it a little less dangerously than Ward did there.

That the rookie wasn’t looking is not Ward’s fault, I concur.

Football players often like to refer to themselves as “warriors”, and the game as a “war”. And it that same vane, their is a certain honor code in the sport.

What Ward does exists in this strange place, a lot of people feel its part of the game. Others feel that what he does, hitting players when they aren’t looking, isn’t so “honorable”. Football players don’t like a play where a player can’t defend himself from injury. It’s their careers.

Think about the uproar that Warren Sapp caused when he ended the career of that Packers’ lineman. There were good arguments on both sides. That was away from the play. This hit on Rivers wasn’t, but Ward has certainly made that same hit well away from a play before.

Make your own judgements, but I don’t see anything “tough” about it.