Bill Romanowski Says Al-Shaair’s Trevor Lawrence Hit Was ‘Dirty,’ But ‘I Loved It’

Romanowski told us just after the NFL hit the Houston tackler with the ban that he really felt for Al-Shaair, noting the situation was a bang-bang, hard-to-avoid one.

But, he did relent it was “dirty.”

Of course, as an inside linebacker who gained a reputation over the years for bending the on-field rules, he added, “I loved it!!!”

“But,” he said, “it was dirty.”

Al-Shaair will have the opportunity to appeal his suspension — and given the way Texans general manager Nick Caserio slammed the NFL for its ruling, it seems that’ll be likely.

Either way, though, Romanowski said his advice to Al-Shaair from here would be to not let off the gas going forward … but just “control it a little bit” better.

“The last thing you want to do is take that aggression away from your defense,” he said. “Because he’s a tone-setter. That’s what he is. You don’t want to take that away.”