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NFL to suspend players for devastating hits?

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Most people here are concerned about players' health/safety, as I am. There is absolutely no point in hitting defenseless players. The leading with the helmet is wrong as well. That can get 2 players injured at the same time. Football is a rough sport, there will be hard hits, but there are hits, concussions and injuries that can be avoided, and that are unneccessary. No one that watches football on TV, or at the stadium and want to see someone die on the field. And as the game gets faster, guys get stronger, collisions are going to be harder. I think some of these hits are not good football, some guys get a kick out of head hunting and hurting others.
 
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BUCKYLE;1796352; said:
The pussification of football continues. You don't want to get hit, play basketball.

Leading with the helmet has not only been illegal for some time, it's poor form tackling. You're supposed to see what you hit. Flagging a guy that happens to catch a part of the offensive players helmet on a good form tackle is absurd. It's a mans sport. For men.
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Miami Dolphins' Channing Crowder agrees with you:

Dolphins? star: NFL becoming feminine sport

A handful of violent hits on what could be called Black and Blue Sunday led the league to say it could begin fining and suspending first-time offenders in helmet-to-helmet collisions. Which is where Crowder wonders if the league is losing its head. ?If they?re going to keep making us go more and more and more like a feminine sport, we?re going to wear pink every game, not just on the breast cancer months,? Crowder said in a reference to the league?s October awareness campaign.

Entire article: http://www.palmbeachpost.com/sports...owder-nfl-campaign-against-helmet-981382.html
 
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EidoloN;1796845; said:
Most people here are concerned about players' health/safety, as I am. There is absolutely no point in hitting defenseless players. The leading with the helmet is wrong as well. That can get 2 players injured at the same time. Football is a rough sport, there will be hard hits, but there are hits, concussions and injuries that can be avoided, and that are unneccessary. No one that watches football on TV, or at the stadium and want to see someone die on the field. And as the game gets faster, guys get stronger, collisions are going to be harder. I think some of these hits are not good football, some guys get a kick out of head hunting and hurting others.
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A kicker with his leg in the air or a center with his head between his legs after a snap are the only two players that should ever be considered defenseless. One of the first things I learned playing tackle football was that if you're on the fucking field, keep your head on a swivel. If you do, it's highly unlikely you'll ever be "defenseless".
 
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JoPa's idea on this topic....

Joe Paterno?s No Facemask Idea Isn?t So Insane


As the debate over NFL player safety suddenly erupted this week, Joe Paterno made an interesting suggestion on how to stem the problem at his weekly press conference Tuesday.


(Pro Football Hall of Famer Marion Motley: The Original Badass) ​

No facemasks.

Paterno:
?I have been saying (it) for 15 years. Then, you would get back to shoulder blocking and shoulder tackling and you wouldn?t have all those heroes out there. Guys (would) have to worry about broken noses, knocked-out teeth, which we would like to prevent, but you don?t get anything for nothing.
?We used to have one single bar; now we have a weapon.?

Entire article: http://network.yardbarker.com/all_s...ernos_no_facemask_idea_isnt_so_insane/3450102
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Players have gotten bigger, faster and stronger to such an extent that the human body, technique and equipment have not been able to keep up in the area of player safety. Granted there will always be those who are "head hunters". Football at the NFL level is a business first.

If they (the NFL) is so worried about player health, why then did they threaten to halt health care if there is a stoppage due to player walkoff and the season disrupted.

Having been a coach at the high school level for years and year, the first rule we teach is to never lead with your head. Players at all levels have gotten faster and bigger and in some ways more aggressive.

Does anyone remember when a 275-280 pound offensive lineman was considered pretty big? Now we have qb's in the 250 pound range.

Some years ago I saw a product at a clinic where the helmet was a solid piece attached to the should pads and the player would wear a softer helmet inside. So the idea of more protection for player safety is not new.
Traumatic Brain Injury and/or paralysis is not a "sissy" topic.

What ever happened to the Deacon Jones "head slap".

Two hand touch is not the way, nor is trying to enforce intent. There is a happy medium between safety and the crunch-knock your socks off-hit we so love.

The game and players will continue to evolve.
 
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James Harrison threatens to take his ball and go home

Harrison's agent Bill Parise said Wednesday his client is "very serious" about retiring after getting fined $75,000 for a hit that knocked Mohamed Massaquoi out of the Steelers' win over the Cleveland Browns. Harrison met Wednesday with Steelers coach Mike Tomlin, who excused his linebacker from the Steelers preparations for Sunday's game against the Dolphins.

"We wouldn't joke about this," Parise said.
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I will.

James Harrison isn't the first guy to get fined for a play the refs were too blind to flag, and he won't be the last, but he is the first one to need a mental health day and a Midol to deal with it. :lol:

Waaaaahhhhhhh!!!!!!
 
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And of course the fucking genius of the century Channing Crowder says he is still going to use his helmet as a weapon. If douchelips like this didn't think this way, we wouldn't need to be worrying about it.
 
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