Broncos coach Gary Kubiak sending video of low hit on Chris Harris Jr. to NFL
— -- ENGLEWOOD, Colo. --? Denver Broncos coach Gary Kubiak said Monday he would formally send video to the NFL of Harry Douglas' low hit?on cornerback Chris Harris Jr. during the Broncos' 13-10 loss to the Tennessee Titans on Sunday.
"First off, I'm just so thankful Chris is OK. That's one of the things making me feel better today, to watch the play," Kubiak said Monday, when asked if he had seen the hit on the game video. "Obviously I disagree with the play, but I'll take my opinion to the league and deal with that standpoint."
Asked if that meant he would send the clip of the play to the league office, along with the team's opinion on the matter, Kubiak said: "I disagree with the play. All I can say is I'll take my opinion to the league on that."
On a 6-yard run by the Titans'? Derrick Henry with 3 minutes, 10 seconds left in the first half, Harris was standing away from the pile in the middle of the field when Douglas dove at Harris' right knee.
Harris, who suffered a torn ACL in his left knee in 2013, fell to the ground, clutching his right knee. After a few moments down on the field, he walked slowly back to the bench area with the Broncos' trainers.
Harris returned to the game before halftime and played the entire second half.
"I was glad to see him come back, that he was OK after that," Broncos linebacker Von Miller?said.
"I never had a player try to end my career before," Harris said after the game. "That's not football. He tried to end my career with a hit like that. ... [The officials] didn't call it, but hopefully the league can take a look at that."
Harris also added: "Whatever the biggest fine is, that's what he should get."
Titans head coach Mike Mularkey offered his opinion on the play simply by saying, "It was legal." He was asked if he thought it was an excessive play.
"No. No, I've been with Harry for six years," Mularkey said. "Harry cuts just about every game. No, I have no problem with it."
Mularkey said that is the cut-blocking technique the coaches teach receivers.
"We tell them to cut through the thigh," he said. "If you aim at the thigh, you're going to hit the knee. If you aim at the knee, you're going to probably miss and whiff and go down by the ankles. We want to aim at the thigh to get to the knees."
On the play that followed Douglas' hit, Broncos cornerback Aqib Talib was lined up on Douglas, and Talib confronted the receiver after another run play. The two ended up pushing and shoving close to the Titans' bench area. Several more Titans players surrounded Talib before more Broncos also waded into the scrum.
Officials got the players separated and Talib was assessed an unnecessary roughness penalty. After the game, Talib called Douglas a "sorry player,'' and continued on by saying "the next time I see him in Atlanta, I'm going to beat his ass.'' Talib and Douglas are represented by the same agent.
Monday, Talib didn't want to address his postgame comments.
"We're going to play for each other, that's why we play the game,'' Talib said. "We play for our checks and we play because we love to be around each other. We're out there playing football, that's the last thing I'm going to say about it. Patriots week, so let's move on.''
"We've got a strong team, we got each other's back,'' Kubiak said of Talib's postgame comments. "You better have each other's back in this business, in what we do, but you also have got to be smart. You can't hurt your team. That's what I tell the players, it's what I told Aqib. He understands that.''
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