Sorry Judge, I like you and consider you a good guy (based on act experience), but you're wrong about this topic. Here is but one article acknowledging the NFL's Statement on the matter (and this is the title of the article):
NFL's top official: Steelers' Porter should not have been on field
The NFL is still investigating this and several other incidents of the game and has not said whether fines will be issued.
DB...but Bushwood knows more than Goodell!
If Shazier's hit was "illegal," then why wasn't it flagged? Hint, because the receiver wasn't defenseless and lowered his head after/as Shazier launched himself. Stop embarrassing yourself.
Porter may indeed be fined because of what went down, but very often assistants come on the field when there are injured players. Multiple Bengals assistants were on the field when their RB went down. The flag on Jones was entirely self inflicted. Porter wasn't "talking shit."
Really? Because the Officials were blowing their whistles and waving their arms as soon as Shazier got up with the ball. Based on the Officials actions it was unnecessary for him to run at all (everybody else clearly stopped and nobody even chased classless Shazier in his unnecessary stunt), but even still and after all that unnecessary bull$hit, the cameras showed Shazier come all the way back down the field celebrating like the classless jack@ss he is while Bernard lay on the field the entire time. Then the cameras followed him to the sideline where he continued his antics and then started taunting the Bengal crowd! Yea, he's a real peach of a "humble" character....LMFAO at the hypocrtical spin and characterizations of some of you Stillers fans. Ludicrous glorification of behavior that deserves the diametric opposite simply because "he's the Stiller's thug".
Burfict and Jones are the kind of players that cost coaches their jobs...amazing Lewis didn't cut both of them. However he may not have control over things like that.
Officials are allowed to use discretion regarding coaches on the field when there is a serious injury. By the way, I re-watched that part of the game and there was a Cinci coach out there, as well. He was a younger guy with an orange hat and talking to the Bengal players. The camera wasn't on Joey Porter the whole time, but when it was, his mouth was clamped shut and he didn't react when Gilberry bumped him, Burfict grabbed his jacket and Jones charged at him, running into a ref. I think it's shameful the Bengal organization didn't issue an apology for their fans who were cheering and throwing stuff at the injured Rothlisberger as he was being carted off the field.Really? The NFL has admitted that the Stillers Asst Coach should not have been on the field, especially after he was asked to return to sideline AND THEN even lingered jawing with Bengals players AFTER Brown had gone to the sidelines! Again, the League has admitted the coaches presence on the field, especially contravening the Officials instructions to remove himself, was illegal and could be fined, but at this point they have not decided whether to fine him or not.