There was another that happened in the Rams game today. Dude hit with his shoulder, same shit and they flagged for 15.
The game is being ruined, your move XFL.
The game is being ruined, your move XFL.
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The latest in the line of wtf penalities in NFL's effort to max player safety
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I love the NFL but you take the helmets off these guys you get the same amazing talent with like 10% of the concussion risk of today's game.
Also the opening to marketing these players goes from a garage door to the Panama Canal overnight.
You can still play a high impact contact sport like American football at an elite level without firing your head into another man's head. The helmet was a reality as the game evolved and now it's a liability in its current state
Also the opening to marketing these players goes from a garage door to the Panama Canal overnight.
You can still play a high impact contact sport like American football at an elite level without firing your head into another man's head. The helmet was a reality as the game evolved and now it's a liability in its current state
You're probably right but the NFL seems to be reaching for new levels of ridiculous.
I understand what they're trying to do here. Poor application of it.
Point appears to be to tackle but not unnecessarily slam the player to the ground. And probably avoid driving with your body weight whenever possible.
Point appears to be to tackle but not unnecessarily slam the player to the ground. And probably avoid driving with your body weight whenever possible.
I mean that's what a tackle is. That's HOW you tackle somebody is to use your body weight.
Are you proposing the league should not make efforts to make the sport safer as more and more research shows the lasting brain damage done by playing football?
Most people don't like football, they just like seeing people get hit.
It's the Nascar effect.
That is correct. Just touch them or pull the flags from their sides.
I can't believe Crooked Hillary ruined our great sport. At least us real fans will always have the NFL GameDay 98 intro.
I'm into the commercial breaks and brain dead commentary
DILLY DILLY
There's a bit more nuance to it than that and you're bright enough to differentiate.
Generally speaking, do we give a fuck about player safety and concussions or don't we? You can't claim to want the game to become safer but recoil when you see new rules designed to do just that. It's clear what their goal here is, despite this particular application of said rule being poor.
People should probably reflect on what is important to them in this equation.
That's a mindset I just don't get. It seems like the absolutely least important part. There are lots of sports all about hitting. I thought this is supposed to be a ball game.
I'm doing my best not to call it anything like that, since to me, football is the sport with the ball that you mainly touch with your feet.
Gotta respect different cultures, can't call it handegg.
There's not a better feeling than making a solid hit a laying someone out.
I know this is hyperbole, but it's still kinda.. Idk. Sad? To think that this would be necessary to feel great while playing a competitive sport.
You guys should try rugby. It's like NFL, but without the armour and ad breaks. It's a much more free-flowing game, and if you like seeing guys smash each other to the ground, you'll love it.
Dreams-Visions said:
So in your opinion, how is a smaller person supposed to tackle a larger person? Fuckin' Judo?
If this is what is required to get players to stop leading with their helmets then so be it. I assume it's a step over the line during preseason for a reason.
I think if you polled the individuals who watch the game weekly, the answer would probably be no. The players make too much money and they need to toughen up.
I agree. It's why I think something like flag football would be infinitely more watchable and enjoyable. Much more dexterity based and practically no risk of CTE or unnecessary injury.
It's more nuanced than you're making it out to be, obviously.
The NFL has made a lot of reasonable steps recently to protect players from concussion, such as the new penalties for helmet-led contact. These are smart steps to try and dissuade tacklers from just trying to 'blow up' ball carriers so they get on highlight reels and instead encourage technically sound and safe tackles instead.
There are so many examples of high skill play in the NFL from spectacular catches to pancake blocks to pass rushing to QB scrambles and the tackle in the OP is, to all observers, just an example of a great defensive play. Its well timed, shows great awareness and the actual tackle itself is as safe as you could possibly ask.
I promise that most of the hardcore NFL fans like myself are more concerned about actually safe and technically well executed tackles like that being penalised than we are somehow lamenting the lack of hits in the sport.
I think a lot of people are of the opinion that if you take the physicality from football it's not worth watching. That any number of other sports would be better instead.
Easy to say if you're not a kid put into it by your parents and have no choice, or if you're not a kid in high school who sees it as their own way out of a crappy life.
The problem with policing these hits is it ignores the fact that football itself is unsafe. The theory around CTE is not that big hits cause this phenomenon exclusively. All clashes minor and major over a period of time cause it. Just clashing helmets at the line causes it.
The NFL should police this if they want to be considerate and ethical, but I wonder if it is even possible for the football we know and love to exist without neutering the game completely.
It's implementation in the preseason appears to show this as an attempt to make the game more exciting with higher scores versus presenting a reasonable policy to limit/mitigate head injuries.
The NFL should police this if they want to be considerate and ethical, but I wonder if it is even possible for the football we know and love to exist without neutering the game completely.
It's implementation in the preseason appears to show this as an attempt to make the game more exciting with higher scores versus presenting a reasonable policy to limit/mitigate head injuries.
But then how do you do that to 13 year old kids?
In the past and in the present, the NFL, NHL etc lied and suppressed medical evidence to prevent even the most aware players to make an educated and informed choice.
You also enter a scenario where you are asking poor children to sign away their mental rights and lives for "the chance" to make any money at all in football by going and playing college football.
Children are deciding in elementary school, high school, and college to damage their brains before there is any chance to even attempt to make a living playing football.
I don't think it's as easy as signing a waiver.
