ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. -- Buffalo Bills coach Rex Ryan was upset Monday about a hit Sunday by Miami Dolphins wide receiver Jarvis Landry that sent Bills safety Aaron Williams to the hospital for precautionary CT and MRI scans on his head and neck area.
"Yeah, it was totally unnecessary," Ryan said Monday. "Did [Landry] target, did he launch? Yeah, he did all those. You can check every box you want. Was it a dirty hit? Yeah. It was unnecessary. And as I see it, it was unsportsmanlike."
Williams was back in meetings Monday, but Ryan said doctors were still evaluating Williams for possible injuries.
Landry was penalized for unnecessary roughness on the second-quarter block, in which the Dolphins' top receiver launched his shoulder into Williams as the safety pursued Miami running back Jay Ajayi on a 6-yard run.
"I was surprised he did it, and absolutely disappointed," Ryan said Monday. "Now I have a player that's in jeopardy. So I don't understand it."
Williams remained on the ground for several minutes as medical staff treated him. Landry remained close by and apologized to Williams as he was escorted off the field. After the game, he said, "If I could take that hit back, I would. It's a guy's livelihood."
Landry had been penalized for unsportsmanlike conduct earlier in the game for taunting, but the unnecessary roughness call did not qualify him for ejection under the NFL's new two-strike rule. Ryan wants the NFL to consider expanding which penalties can result in a player being ejected.
"I think maybe we need to look at our rules a little bit, where the college game may have it right," Ryan said. "Maybe having a guy that targets or deliberately does something like that, maybe the right move is to eject the player from the game and maybe part of another game. That's how college does it. I also like the fact that they review it on video.
"We're trying to clean that part of the game up. There's no question about it. We don't need to do that type of stuff. ... That's how guys get injured. And if we want to really protect our players, we need to look at things. Maybe in the future, we will look at things differently."
Bills cornerback Nickell Robey-Coleman called the block a "cheap hit" after Sunday's game. On Monday, center Eric Wood told WGR 550 that the hit "crossed the line" and Landry "tried to take [Williams'] head off."