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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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Seems misapplied in this case, but in general the idea is good because the sorry is too dangerous.
They said he used his body weight to force the QB to the ground. It was downright awful and I'm surprised Paul Allen (the Vikings announcer) didn't blow a fuse.
The 49ers / Texans game tonight was awful as well. SF had a great, textbook tackle on a punt called for a penalty as well. Took the enjoyment out of the game.
This is the Aaron Rodgers rule. If a star player suffers a serious injury, you can bet the next year there will be a new rule to try and retroactively prevent the injury. Protecting the quarterbacks is more important to the NFL than having rules that make sense.
He did run right into the guy and drag him down to the ground. You are supposed to just touch them I thought.
Football is dangerous. If you don't want to get hurt don't play.
I'm all for making football safer on the players, I don't wanna see GOAT Brady not know his kid's names. But these refs need to get it together, this was a horrendous call.
What? If you are only supposed to touch them then why didnt they blow the whistle until he hit the ground? They need to figure this out, because if you touch the guy and back off then he launches a 80 yard bomb because you didnt tackle him thats BS.
I was joking, but honestly at this rate the NFL will be full-on touch football rules before we know it.
lol honestly the NFL is done long-term, I feel like the decline is inevitable. Between rules to try and make it "safer" while still doing lasting damage to players' brains, and not knowing what a fucking catch is, it's just random penalties and things now.
If they don't want QBs to get hit then put a different jersey on 'em and say they can't be hit, two-hand touch or flags or whatever bullshit
If they don't want QBs to get hit then put a different jersey on 'em and say they can't be hit, two-hand touch or flags or whatever bullshit
It's still un-fucking-real popular. Never won't be. At least in our lifetimes.
You are surprised people watch the most popular sport in the country?
I stopped watching when I dropped cable a couple years ago (with the exception of maybe going to a superbowl party or seeing a game at Thanksgiving). All the protesting and no-kneeling policy's came after and it just made it easier to stop caring about it.
I was actually surprised when I picked up some takeout earlier today and saw a game on, and the team I used to watch too (Seahawks). Couldn't tell you a single player or coach on that team now.
The protesting makes it awesome. Love that these guys giving a middle finger to racist America.
It's not just some standard bad call, it was a horrific call. Nothing in the rulebook prohibits this or anything like it that I can tell.
Using your head/helmet to hit the player (which he didn't do here)
What they are probably saying is he didn't need to pull that bit of a rotation after the QB was completely down.
It was a good form tackle... The QB is downed... The defender rotates and falls into the QB. The defender probably rotates because he got hit the ground and physics but the defender needs to be in control of his body etc.
Its also preseason for the refs. There is always an edict to make the game safer and this is taking one of them to an extreme. It's better for the process to actually call this now so they have something to look at and be like this is not what we mean.
There will be more of these in the preseason like every year and you will hardly see something even close to this be called when the games mean something.
It was a good form tackle... The QB is downed... The defender rotates and falls into the QB. The defender probably rotates because he got hit the ground and physics but the defender needs to be in control of his body etc.
Its also preseason for the refs. There is always an edict to make the game safer and this is taking one of them to an extreme. It's better for the process to actually call this now so they have something to look at and be like this is not what we mean.
There will be more of these in the preseason like every year and you will hardly see something even close to this be called when the games mean something.
Lol bullfuckingshit. I guarantee at least one playoff game will be decided on a bullshit call just like this.
I mean ratings are on a decline
And between kneeling backlash and flag football type rules its gonna continue to decline
What a surprise. A product of nepotism is terrible at their job.
As a whole? Slightly. Compared to all other TV? nope.
https://deadspin.com/for-the-last-time-nfl-ratings-are-not-down-theyre-up-1827378925
Oh for sure, I meant more the League and some of the teams banning that stuff and blacklisting players.
Honestly didn't even know they were still there. Last game I saw for more than a few minutes I was surprised at how few names I remembered, and as much as I liked Pete Carroll it wouldn't have surprised me if he had left of something in the last.
Honestly, Mike Holmgren is still the first name I think of when I think "Seahawks" and he hasn't been there in 10 years!
This is like the worst performance art critique ever. lol NFL continues down the road of being a joke.
Just like every other controversial rule change we bitched about in every other season had severe ramifications in those playoffs...
