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I know this is late in the week to be bringing up but did anyone think Duke had his left ankle twisted by FSU #29, Nate Andrews?

Early in the second half he hurdled our guy and got hit in the air. As he was walking back to the huddle it appeared that his RIGHT leg started cramping and he sat down for the trainers to come out to him.

Later on, with the score at 23-20 and Miami having the ball, Duke pulls off a big run to the right on 2nd & 3 (about 14:00 left in the 4th). He gets tackled by Andrews and as Andrews is spinning to get up you can see Duke's whole body getting moved by Andrews. In the replay you can see Andrews pulling and twisting Duke's LEFT ankle. After ESPN shows a few replays they show duke on the sideline looking very frustrated (way more than when the cramp in his right leg started) and he is pointing down towards his lower left leg. It didn't seem like they were trying to treat him for a cramp (which they would have been laying him down to stretch him for). He would eventually come back later in the drive but didn't do much and seemed ok after that but it definitely knocked him out of a big drive.

I just wanted to get some people's thoughts on what I think I saw.
 
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saw it ~ Douchey move from a Douche ~ FSU got away with Murder in that game. Both literally & figuratively.
 
Yes, I saw that too. They remain about the dirtiest team there is -- even since St Bobby. I was screaming for us to put helmets on Rapist's ankle the entire game.
 
Our fans would have been happy to take a 15 yarder for a late hit on Winston.
 
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Here are two quick screen shots I did but you really have to see it in motion. Andrews made an accelerated twist with his whole body getting up and ran off immediately. Seemed like he was trying to play it off as him just getting up quickly.

In the first Duke is on all fours after the play was over but in the second he is laying flat after getting pulled pretty hard. In motion you can see how much his body moves.

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I first saw it when I re-watched the game sunday being hungover and didn't care to look into it more. As the week went on I wanted to watch it again.

I work in an office that is majority Seminoles (pres and VP went to FSU plus others) and last year when Chickillo and the FSU lineman got into it on the ground I heard a decent amount of "Canes starting to play dirty again like they used to." I had to point out to them that ESPN (you know, the one with ALL of the camera angles in the game) didn't report that Chik was the instigator (like FSU websites did merely based on the TV broadcast) but that ESPN said in the ACC blog it was the FSU lineman that came from the other side of the O-line and jumped on top of Chick while he was down on the ground to start the whole thing.

Happy to know others saw what I saw and thought the same thing.
 
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I saw it immediately and saw how injured Duke looked and just kept saying come on Duke get up while the family was yelling "Where's the flag?!" I avoided the boards and media until a few days ago so figured this had already been discussed.
 
It was the exact same dirty move Vontaze Burfict used on Olsen and Newton earlier this year if anyone saw those.
 
We got cook a first rounder we won't miss a beat......o wait that's the way old 2000 miami used to recruit my bad.
 
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