Does Vince Wilfork play dirtier than Rodney Harrison?

Rodney Harrison is the perennial player's choice for dirtiest NFL player, but this year Harrison's teammate Vince Wilfork is taking a run for the money. Wilfork's most recent fine came after the AFC Championship game, a fine Wilfork calls "ridiculous."

Whether it's an eye-poke, cheap shot to the knee, or simply grabbing a facemask and twisting a guy's neck, the Patriots defensive tackle has amassed for himself quite the repertoire of dirty tricks. He has been fined by the league four times this year. He has only half that many sacks during the same time.

WILFORK: "It's bad because you go out there and you get a penalty and the first thing you say is, 'Am I going to get fined?' It's ridiculous. Anything you do that's a penalty, it's a fine. I don't think the game should be like that, but the NFL makes the rules and we have to abide by them. We have to do a better job of abiding by them."

"We" have to do a better job of abiding by them? How about you start with yourself, Vince? In the regular-season finale, Wilfork was fined $15,000 for the eye-poke against Giants RB Brandon Jacobs, and he didn't dispute the dirtiness of that play. Neither of those plays, though, holds a candle to Wilfork's cheapest shot of the year: Blatantly trying to take out the knee of Bills QB J.P. Losman, who missed a few games because of a knee injury incurred on the play. It's a shame that Wilfork himself hasn't been forced to miss any action this year.

Here is a video of the Losman play, arguably Wilfork's dirtiest play of the year.


Cheap-shot artist Vince Wilfork (Patriots DT)...

22 Comments On: "Does Vince Wilfork play dirtier than Rodney Harrison?"

 
Ahhhhhhh shit. Let's just put dress on them and send them all to ballet school. Get over it.

Wilfork is surely up there...Harrison still holds mantle as dirtiest per polls, opinion, etc...but, every team has a few "villians" in this type of sport...so many rules nowadays, some cheapshots can get blurred...I get pissed when a NE player hurts a key drive or almost blows up a victory...looking at this nowadays, PPhilly is correct as those old gritty Championships teams and all teams were way worse with shenanigans back in 70's. etc...and this is football...good article

And the Giants are so tidy-white? Might want to read this before you start spouting about other teams' dirty play.

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/giants/2008/01/17/2008-01-17_packers_expect_giant_cheap_shots-2.html

One play in week 2 where an O-lineman falls on a D-lineman doesn't need to be mentioned next to Wilfork taking out someone's knee with his forearm. Who's talking about the Giants being tidy white? Seems like you have something against the G-Men, huh. Why's that?

he's just telling the truth...and I have no idea, but PPHilly's team is in NYG's division?...can't speak for that last sentence I made for truth...but he surely will tell ya when he's back on

Well, I admit that I may have jumped the gun on this because maybe the guy who posted the article is not a Giants fan. Either way, it shows that the Pats aren't the only team who has players that do this kind of stuff. Shit, worst I have seen in the last 10 years is the head stomp on our guy by Albert Haynesworth last year. Now, that was pretty damn dirty. And, no, I don't have anything against the G-Men. They won fair and square.

good article grab PPhilly...didn't realize some of the NFC perspective of how Giants really play...too busy with the NE dirty play barrage

cry me a river, this is football

big vince is the best 3-4 nose in the league

LIke I always say.......put a dress on them and send them to ballet school if you want totally clean football.

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this is football and they need to let them play, but if your putting your finger in another players eye on purpose, that isn't right

His finger actually didn't go into his eye. He just circled his finger inside his helmet. Both guys afterwards said it was nothing. Vince and the guy are friends. The whole thing was blown out of proportion.

that Losman play was dirty though cause it was way after the play. it looks like he did it intentionally. now if he hit him during the play, theres nothing wrong with that

I love you number 37

If I was in AZ I would be asking this guy to marry me, not Tom Brady..he has no balls.

I don't know , Pink. Do you like it rough?

?? If it was with him then yes. He is like my imaginary husband that I will never have. Its fine. I like the relationship that way. Why do you think HE likes it rough?? ;)

I like bad boys. Its a classic symptom that girls have.

I said that because he is supposedly the dirtiest player in the league.....LOL.

yes he is, you know your stuff.

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