Play of the Day: Marc Colombo goes to blows with Jay Ratliff
By Tim MacMahon/Blogger
It took 11 practices, but we finally have a fight worth writing about.
Gee whiz, who would have guessed that Marc Colombo and Jay Ratliff were the combatants? Those guys are arguably the two toughest dudes on the team and probably rank atop the practice fights list in recent years.
The play that led to the scrap was pretty interesting, too. DeMarcus Ware came flying in Tony Romo's face and almost certainly would have had a sack in a game. Romo sidestepped Ware and tried to fire a bullet to Marion Barber over the middle, but Bobby Carpenter batted the ball in the air and came down with the rebound for an interception.
Then the action really got interesting.
Ratliff obviously did something to perturb Colombo, because the 6-8, 318-pound tackle stormed out toward the numbers to attack. Ratliff didn't back down, and those guys mixed it up for a few moments before Terence Newman bravely pulled Ratliff away from the battle.
"That's the way those guys are," Carpenter said of Colombo and Ratliff, who both have reps for being intense and nasty on the field. "That's why you want them on your team. They're both tough, hard-nosed guys, and that's why you've gotta love 'em."
It took 11 practices, but we finally have a fight worth writing about.
Gee whiz, who would have guessed that Marc Colombo and Jay Ratliff were the combatants? Those guys are arguably the two toughest dudes on the team and probably rank atop the practice fights list in recent years.
The play that led to the scrap was pretty interesting, too. DeMarcus Ware came flying in Tony Romo's face and almost certainly would have had a sack in a game. Romo sidestepped Ware and tried to fire a bullet to Marion Barber over the middle, but Bobby Carpenter batted the ball in the air and came down with the rebound for an interception.
Then the action really got interesting.
Ratliff obviously did something to perturb Colombo, because the 6-8, 318-pound tackle stormed out toward the numbers to attack. Ratliff didn't back down, and those guys mixed it up for a few moments before Terence Newman bravely pulled Ratliff away from the battle.
"That's the way those guys are," Carpenter said of Colombo and Ratliff, who both have reps for being intense and nasty on the field. "That's why you want them on your team. They're both tough, hard-nosed guys, and that's why you've gotta love 'em."
posted by The Gryphon at 11:21 PM
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