Jeremy Trueblood Is Fightacular

For the second week in a row, Jeremy Trueblood was in the middle of an on-field fight. Which, of course, is awesome. Last week he was defending Michael Clayton who was the victim of a late hit. This week was a little different.

Trueblood bumped into an official after a Cardinals player got rough with right guard Davin Joseph in the final minute of the game.

Defending a quarterback or a kicker or some other sub-200 pounder is understandable. But Davin Joseph is 313 pounds and fucking enormous. Unless he was totally helpless on the ground while the other guy is beating on him, let it go. As it stands, some Cardinal "got rough" with Joseph, which sounds more like the description of a domestic issue with a violent husband and a mouthy wife than a football game. I think Joseph could have handled himself in that case.

But it didn't end there.

Trueblood tried to intervene, and a Cardinals player, believed to be linebacker Calvin Pace, swung at him. When Trueblood tried to retaliate, he ran into an official, resulting in a 15-yard penalty and his ejection.

I don't care if there were only 45 seconds left in the game; why was he ejected? It was obviously incidental. Remember when Ronde Barber took a swing at Kevin Mawae and hit the umpire instead? Butch Hannah went down faster than a freshman girl at the prom and Barber was penalized a total of three yards (they were already on the TB 5, so the penalty was half the distance to the goal.) No ejection. Of course, off the field Barber was hit with a $30,000 fine, but that's beside the point. Was Barber given the benefit of the doubt on the field because of his easy-going personality and his disarming-yet-engaging smile? Or was the offical yesterday just that much of a pussy? I'm going with the latter, though it's hard to discount Barber's pearly whites. Rawr!

For his part, Trueblood explained the situation cryptically.

"The guy (in front of me) was hacking somebody and I was just going behind the back and I got punched by somebody, so I turned around and went after him," Trueblood said. "I don't know what happened. I guess I bumped into a ref. I didn't see him there. I apologized to him."

I don't know what all that means except for the apology part, but Jeremy, you were screwed. Don't let this discourage you from taking your aggressions out on Jamaal Anderson in a couple weeks. It's bound to be some of the only excitement we see on the field all day. Hey, just between you and me, I heard Anderson called you a little pussy bitch and that there isn't anything you can do about it. He may have also said something about your mother, I'm not sure. It was hard to hear over all the early celebrating they were doing because they knew they were going to stomp your asses.