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Looks like Ed Reed is going to the Jets
Looks like Ed Reed is going to the Jets
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Ugh, WTF is up with that TNF theme!?!?
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Per PFT.com:
There have been several rule changes in the recent past designed to make the game safer for quarterbacks and the league’s vice president of officiating says that there will be discussions about expanding them this offseason.
Against a backdrop of quarterback injuries that has seen nine placed on injured reserve this season, Dean Blandino said that the league was interested in seeing if there was more they could do to keep them safe. They’ll review injury data for quarterbacks and other positions and look at video as part of the review process.
“Should he always get protection from low hits or head hits, regardless of the posture he’s presenting?” Blandino said, via the Associated Press. “Part of the conversation will be: Should that protection be expanded to all times when the quarterback has the ball in the pocket? Currently the quarterback is as protected now as he’s ever been, but I think that’s been the case for eight or nine years.”
The slew of injuries this season, including ones suffered by Aaron Rodgers and Jay Cutler that haven’t required visits to injured reserve, hasn’t been prompted by a run of hits that should be made illegal. It also isn’t an annual happening. In 2012, 20 of 32 teams started one quarterback all season and only one quarterback was placed on injured reserve.
While the league is clearly going to remain vigilant when it comes to protecting quarterbacks, there doesn’t seem to be a glaring hole in the rules on that front at the moment.#RespectTheCultureComment
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Just put flags on their hips and be done.
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This was pretty cool. Dez Bryant stopped by Best Buy and bought PS4's for those in line.
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Eventually this league will have to realize injuries are going to happen, no matter what you do to protect the players.
Some guys are just made of glass (see Jake Locker).EXPERIENCE MAYHEM FOOTBALLComment
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The way it's going we'll see the O-lines removed, QB's can't be touched, and it's just a WR/DB match up to get open before a 'pass clock' goes off and the QB is considered 'down'."People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring." - Rogers HornsbyComment
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I love 7 on 7!
Sent from my SCH-I535 using TapatalkOriginally posted by MoOriginally posted by MoOriginally posted by MoComment
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The NFL needs to realize that QBs are going to get injured one way or another. No one is free from injury (well except maybe kickers) in this game we love. It's something that you have to live with whether you like it or not. Overprotecting the QB sounds all fine and dandy on paper but that completely compromises the game to the point that offensive numbers are going to go so out of whack that this will be football's version of the baseball's "dead ball" and hockey's "dead puck" era except skewed completely the other way. Actually the NHL DID have an era where offense was through the roof in the '80s but there wasn't any rules changes that brought it about IIRC. This looming change for the NFL WOULD be an artificially enhanced era.
It's things like this that is pushing more and more people to the college game where the rules haven't completely compromised the quality of play.Member of the Official OS Bills Backers Club
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How about protecting defensive players? I could stand to not see Brian Cushing get injured next year for the third straight year due to a low hit to the knee.Comment
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Must be getting all that paper from all the drugs he's hustling!
For being a Cowboy, I actually like Bryant. Plenty of other real thugs to hate.NHL - Philadelphia Flyers
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It's just so ridiculous and reactionary.
Everything is ok until a big name gets hurt and than it's "oh gotta look into rule changes!"
It's professional freaking football and at the end of the day it is a violent game with huge athletes colliding with the goal of the defense to take the offensive player to the ground. Injuries are inevitable.
Of course you usually only hear about rule changes when a huge name QB is the one getting hurt, not when receivers or defenders are having their legs cut out causing major knee damage that could end their careers as they know it.
It just pisses me off so much.Comment
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