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The latest in the line of wtf penalities in NFL's effort to max player safety
- Thread starter Vanillalite
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But that's a tackle. I mean try tackling someone without using your body weight.
If we cared about player safety and concussions we would outlaw tackle football. There's no way to play the game the way it is structured right now without the players being in danger of concussion injury. These rules are silly bandaids that can actually make the sorrys even more dangerous by making players try to play in an unnatural way.
So with that in mind, the only way to approach it is to make these players acutely aware of the dangers, and if they sign off, then OK -- you're gonna get hit. I'm not saying make it open season on helmet to helmet or whatever, but a tackle like that was literally a textbook tackle.
I don't watch football but was curious about the topic so I clicked it. This new rule to do some arbitrary specific tackle on a quarterback is the dumbest shit and I can see it being grossly abused by both the refs and players . What a joke man. Like some have said, give the qbs flags to grab if they're that concerned about injuries .
CTE isn't about individual hits though. As someone said earlier, it's a culmination of hits over the course of a career. Without changing the very nature of football, it won't be fixed. These types of penalties though just make the league look ridiculous. They won't do anything until youth and high school football is effective. And in certain parts of the country, that will never happen.
You realize Goodell is just a shield for the owners, they make the decisions and he takes the blame for all there BS...Goodell gets paid millions just to be a fucking shield..
Thats the definition of a football tackle,
damn if its gonna be calls like that i'll be done with the NFL for good.
Might be giving that Birmingham Alliance Football team a look next spring.
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I would have no problem saying you can't play tackle football before you're 18. Kids really shouldn't be playing it.
Yep.
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Ironically the helmet and padding is what allows these guys to hit each other so hard.
In that case there is one other solution.
Spikes. Lots of spikes on armor.
And it wasn't the only one in that game. Shocking calls on both sides - the refs are going to be deciding even more games by what they choose to call.
Without High School Football, football is a dead sport. You can't have a major sport that athletes only begin learning that late.
I honestly think we are witnessing the beginning of the end of football's dominance. Obviously there are plenty of people who still want to watch it, but fewer and fewer people are going to play. And that will eventually cause the audience to start to dry up.
Given how short football careers are, this could happen in a surprisingly short period of time.
I think so too -- I expect the sport to be effectively dead by 2050.
I mean, he did get crunched as fuck on that tackle last year.
But this isn't the right answer on the whole. Unreal call to make on a textbook sack.
The NFL and football has an identity crisis on its hands and its coming at the worst time with the global emergence of basketball.
This will be the highest scoring season in league history and it won't be close. 15 yard penalties will be gifted left and right essentially gifting offenses touchdowns. Get ready numerous 40+ point a game offenses.
This will be the highest scoring season in league history and it won't be close. 15 yard penalties will be gifted left and right essentially gifting offenses touchdowns. Get ready numerous 40+ point a game offenses.
Jesus.
They should just cover the QB's jersey in tissues and if one gets torn, the opposing team forfeits the game.
They should just cover the QB's jersey in tissues and if one gets torn, the opposing team forfeits the game.
Football organizations can't really have that attitude though. You have NFL players retiring in their 20's citing safety concerns. You're losing potential talent so nothing about that is positive for the league.
Ultimately this is the difference between a few crappy calls, slight adjustment to play and still getting paid a shitload. It's not unsurprising to see refs being sensitive to making calls with new rules in place. Once everyone settles in I think the calls will normalize.
Anyone have a clip of this tackle on Aaron Rodgers? Was this an egregious unsportsmanlike tackle that was flagged anyway, or a clean tackle but Rodgers still got hurt?
I still watch my alma mater football, but the pro game has pretty much slipped away. And I really can't watch hard-tackle highlights; I just cringe thinking of the brain damage.
I still watch my alma mater football, but the pro game has pretty much slipped away. And I really can't watch hard-tackle highlights; I just cringe thinking of the brain damage.
I think this article explains what is expected.
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/...e-on-questionable-play-freaking-everyone-out/
I'm not sure how this is going to work since players can't be trying to arm tackle quarterbacks every time they go for a sack, but that is what the rule sounds like. It could be called a penalty if you land on the quarterback at all, and it is completely up to the ref on whether to call it.
Looks like the dude tried to drive him into the ground on the second effort, he just wasn't in good position to do so. Ew rules and how they're applied are weird though. Already a bunch of questionable calls in multiple games.
Compare the video in the OP to when Tony Siragusa obliterated Rich Gannon in the 2000 playoffs and no flag was thrown.
Everytime the refs make a bad call like that, players on the sidelines should kneel in protest.
I know right, not a football fan at all but my god the tackle itself actually looks extremely well executed and calcutlated. Hardly excessively reckless.
Watch them still not call RBs on that shit though. They lower their heads on every run just about.
I'm surprised no one has stopped and considered that maybe this was just a bad call by the ref. Its preseason for the refs too and some of them are trying to feel their way through these new rules.
No way that is actually a penalty.
No way that is actually a penalty.
That isn't how job safety works. My wife just started accepting work as an expert witness for traumatic brain injuries. There are already hundreds of lawsuits in the works. The NFL is looking at massive civil ligitation and potential payouts.
Or replace tackling with flag football. I seriously think flag football would be a lot more fun to watch.
Holy shit that's bad and on a very clean looking tackle to boot. Based on the few pre season games I've watched, I think this will be much worse than the "is it a catch?" problem from last season. I think it's funny defenders will get penalized but RBs who do this pretty much instinctively will never get penalized.
Remember the year that the "hands to the face" penalty first began being enforced, a few years ago? The first few weeks of the season were terrible and borderline unwatchable. This will be even worse. Wouldn't be stunned if teams start baiting the call. Why wouldn't teams just call various screen passes to their RBs, especially in the redzone, to get LBs to throw open field tackles that (inaccurately) get flagged.
Making the game unwatchable in order to "address" concussions seems like just the type of dumbass shit Roger Goodell would cosign.
Making the game unwatchable in order to "address" concussions seems like just the type of dumbass shit Roger Goodell would cosign.
