If you are a 49ers fan I am sure you have seen the Brooks/Brees play fromn the game yesterday, and I am sure you have an opnion on the officials call which nullified the fumble. Heres what Jim Harbaugh said today about it. Did you get to take a closer look at the LB Ahmad Brooks hit? And if you did, what are your thoughts on it today? “I think the thoughts that everybody has with their own individual eyes. Do you need my opinion on it?” Are you saying that own individual eyes that there can be a lot of different interpretations of it? “Our interpretation was, when we grade a player, if he’s got a penalty we give him a minus, but we did not assign a minus on that play. That’s our interpretation.” Do you empathize with Brooks’ statements about the thing is, it’s hard to know where to tackle a guy anymore it seems, a quarterback? “Yes. I empathize with him. I thought he made a great play. And, it didn’t get the result.” Do we have an update on G Mike Iupati and CB Tarell Brown at all? “No. No update there.” I remember hearing one of the players that in the preseason the officials come in and you’re very specific and ask them to get as precise as possible about what is and what is not a penalty. Could you talk about that procedure, that back and forth with them and does it make something like what happened yesterday more frustrating? “That’s a process all the teams go through. They send an officiating crew in twice, once in the offseason, once in training camp. And, yeah, you have an opportunity to go through film-footage and ask questions, etcetera. Does that make it more frustrating, this particular play? No. The play occurred that occurred. I thought Ahmad hit at the right level, hit at the shoulder level. The quarterback kind of shrunk down and that’s the official’s call to make. I’m going to see it the way I see it and that’s going to be a slanted view. I really don’t know much more to say about that.” Can you maybe elaborate why you think it’s a bad call? “I said it’s the official’s call to make. I’m going to see it with my eyes and I’m explaining that maybe that’s because it’s through my eyes, my perspective, our perspective of this team. So, possibly that could explain.” You went through a similar line of questioning earlier this year with S Donte Whitner with a hit in the end zone. Does it seem like anytime there is a big hit, a violent hit, no matter whether it’s legal or illegal, it’s going to get called at this point in the stage of the NFL? “Well, I mean, this isn’t NASCAR. This isn’t where the drivers and the owners after the game or the race get up there and start throwing punches at each other and questioning every call and everybody’s in everybody’s face heated, etcetera. Or the next day, talking about how the points went. We can’t argue that. And you know that. You know I can’t stand up here and make these comments. So, that’s two different worlds. There’s NASCAR and there’s professional football. So, it’s not our place as coaches to talk about that.” Have you spoken to the league? “No.”
Posted on: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 23:13:42 +0000
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