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Orange Blooded [3244]
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Absolutely head-scratching.
May 1, 2018, 6:10 PM
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“A review of 40,000 plays from recent seasons revealed less than five instances of what would be considered a flagrant, and thus ejection-worthy violation, according to NFL executive vice president Troy Vincent.”
Then WHY MAKE THE RULE?!?! So stupid. The amount of idiocy in the ranks of current NFL decision makers is mind-boggling.
https://es.pn/2HFbkQJ
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Re: Absolutely head-scratching.
May 1, 2018, 6:16 PM
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Because any one of those instances could result in another Ryan Shazier-type injury, and the NFL wants (and needs) to avoid that sort of thing. If he doesn't lower his helmet, there's no injury on that play.
Besides, lowering your helmet is just bad tackling form.
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Re: Absolutely head-scratching.
May 1, 2018, 6:19 PM
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A 0.0125% incident rate is not going to make any NFL player change how they hit people.
These types of rules are put in place to deter defenders from being overly aggressive when they tackle. But now the league has pretty much come out and said that they aren’t going to eject any players, so there goes the deterrent. So again, why make the rule at all?
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Re: Absolutely head-scratching.
May 1, 2018, 6:25 PM
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PR, probably. Makes them look better if there's a lawsuit.
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Re: Absolutely head-scratching.
May 1, 2018, 6:27 PM
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You mean PC.
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Re: Absolutely head-scratching.
May 1, 2018, 6:29 PM
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I mean plausible deniability.
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Re: Absolutely head-scratching.
May 1, 2018, 6:28 PM
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This is a league that does not have the stones to make a decision about players disrespecting the National Anthem and The Flag by kneeling. Nothing they do surprises me. Truly a group politically correct stupid people.
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They did make a decision, to allow them to do it.***
May 1, 2018, 6:43 PM
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Orange Blooded [3244]
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The rule is brand new for 2018.***
May 1, 2018, 7:48 PM
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Re: Absolutely head-scratching.
May 2, 2018, 10:05 AM
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Bottom line is where and how a player hits another can change based on other players and falling twisting etc. The rule assumes the can hit anther and how they want
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Re: Absolutely head-scratching.
May 2, 2018, 10:05 AM
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Bottom line is where and how a player hits another can change based on other players and falling twisting etc. The rule assumes the can hit anther and how they want
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Re: Absolutely head-scratching.
May 2, 2018, 11:28 AM
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The key element of this rule is the fact that the offensive player can be penalized/ejected. In at least half of the instances of PFs being called for helmet hits that I've seen since they started doing it in the NFL, the hit was a result of the offensive player either lowering his head intentionally to initiate contact, or as an effect of bracing for a hit. And now they've extended this to runners and not just receivers as they're making a catch. I don't think they're going to be able to actually eject people for this because teams will be out of RBs before halftime. What will happen is that games will now be 4+ hours long and scoring will go down because offenses are going to see an increase in drive-killing 15 yard penalties.
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