Defensive Tackle Trysten Hill of the Dallas Cowboys has been suspended for two games by the NFL for his “open hand punch” of Las Vegas Raiders’ offensive lineman John Simpson immediately after last week’s Thanksgiving game. This decision comes despite reports that Hill would not be suspended from major NFL insiders just a few days ago.
Hill struck Simpson during the postgame handshakes following the Cowboys’ overtime loss to the Raiders. Simpson still had his helmet on and the blow went to his facemask, knocking the helmet off and leading to a scuffle.
The next day, Ian Rapoport and others reported that Trysten would only be fined and not suspended per their sources. But after a review from the NFL, which was likely delayed due to the holiday, we now know that Hill will the Cowboys’ next two games.
#Cowboys DT Trysten Hill was suspended 2 games without pay for his post-game punch, per me & @TomPelissero, after the NFL reviewed all video from the game. VP of Football Operations Jon Runyan issued it, saying it was an open hand punch to #Raiders OL John Simpson’s facemark.
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) November 29, 2021
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With Hill having already missed Dallas’ first eight games on the PUP list, this is starting to become a lost season for the third-year defensive tackle. By the time he returns from suspension, Neville Gallimore will likely be back and competing for snaps with rookie Osa Odighizuwa.
Trysten has struggled to find his place with the Cowboys since being a second-round pick in 2019. He was cited for effort issues as a rookie but started to come on toward the end of the year, then was looking good in 2020 before an ACL injury cut that season short.
Thankfully, Dallas is already used to playing without him so the impact to their next two games shouldn’t be great. Nevertheless, it’s a shame to lose a young player from the rotation and especially given other absences.
When is this guy going to grow up. Sleeping at team meetings. Late for meetings. Now more immature foolishness after this game, resulting in missing MORE games than he already missed.
All of these character issues the Cowboys were aware of when they drafted him….and they picked the same kind of player in Kelvin Joseph. This team routinely tries to find the diamond in the rough and they are convinced that they can change people.
Hill hasn’t been late to meetings or sleeping in meetings since his rookie year!! He’s been doing fine since the end of his rookie year till now!! Quit bringing up old stuff that happened years ago!! Seriously!! And if you pay attention to the video you’ll see that it looks like they are standing there having a friendly conversation, and then out of nowhere Hill hits the other guy!! So it looks like the other guy was running his mouth to Hill and Hill shut it for him!! And if it happened cause of how the game ended then I don’t blame Hill for doing it, especially considering the only reason the raiders won is cause the refs helped them!!
And as far as Kelvin Joseph goes, he don’t have any character issues!! He mite have while he was in college, but he hasn’t had any problems since he was drafted!! Him getting ejected from the raiders game was pure BS, he didn’t do anything wrong in that situation!! It was the raiders player that kept ahold of Joseph and ran him all the way to the crowd and kept pushing him!! Joseph didn’t throw a punch or anything!! It was just part of the refs trying to help the raiders, that’s all that was!! So you can’t compare Joseph to Hill!! Joseph hasn’t had any problems since being drafted!! And Hill started off bad, but he has been fine since the end of his rookie year!!
I’m a long time Cowboy fan. But when I see this guy being SELFISH, I will comment about it. YEAH SERIOUSLY, Hill is a selfish and maybe a dirty player. I don’t care if it was his rookie year, which BY THE WAY WAS ONLY 2 YEARS AGO, YOU DON’T FALL ASLEEP AT A TEAM MEETING, OR BE LATE FOR A TEAM MEETING.
JIMMY JOHNSON WOULD NOT HAVE PUT UP WITH THAT AND WOULD HAVE CUT HIS ASS RIGHT THEN.
NOW… YOU GET SUSPENDED FOR A STUPID IMMATURE ACT, AND NOT ABLE TO BE ON THE FIELD WITH YOUR TEAM MATES, IN MY BOOK THAT IS BEING SELFISH. WHEN YOU HURT THE TEAM, MOST PEOPLE HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT.
PLUS, LAST YEAR HE INTENTIONAL TRIED TO INJURE RB CHRIS CARSON, WITH AN OBVIOUS “GATOR ROLL” ON HIS LEG AFTER THE GUY WAS ALREADY ON THE GROUND. IT WAS DEFINATELY A POS DIRTY CHEAP SHOT. LOOK AT THE VIDEO, Stevie Wonder could see it.
This guy doesn’t know how LUCKY HE IS, playing for the DALLAS COWBOYS. Other players would absolutely KILL to have the RARE OPPORTUNITY TO PLAY FOR AMERICA’S TEAM.
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