NFL Owners Meetings: Day1 Horse-Collar Tackles Banned

[Programmed2Kill]

Quote: Originally Posted by SoMiss2000

Roy Williams=Horsecollar rule Michael Irvin=Push off rule Erik Williams=Hands to the Face rule Emmitt Smith=No taking Helmet off on the Field rulee What's next? Who cares? For any player in the league, when it comes down to giving up 6 or giving up 15 yards penalty, what choice do you make? It's not like the move is premeditated. Where was the outcry when Musa Smith went down? Now Terrible goes down and cries, and now we need to ban it. This one's for you Terrible! Is he going to cry? I swear I see a tear.

Yeah man, it's...Cowboys Conspiracy 101 going on there at the NFL headquarters in Manhattan. When a Cowboy does soemthing....a rule has to be made against it.

Because, heh...the NFL just never wants to see the 'Boys succeed.


I'm just glad after Dillema took a wrong angle on Tyrone Calico and sprained both of the guy's knees, that Calico is back to normal and blowing backs out in his vehicle in the offseason. Roy almost took that joy away from him.

[SoMiss2000]

Quote: Originally Posted by Programmed2Kill

Yeah man, it's...Cowboys Conspiracy 101 going on there at the NFL headquarters in Manhattan. When a Cowboy does soemthing....a rule has to be made against it. Because, heh...the NFL just never wants to see the 'Boys succeed. I'm just glad after Dillema took a wrong angle on Tyrone Calico and sprained both of the guy's knees, that Calico is back to normal and blowing backs out in his vehicle in the offseason. Roy almost took that joy away from him.

I'm just merely showing all the correlations. The league didn't care about Calico or Musa Smith. However, when the guy they love to hate gets taken out....

[jmood88]

Quote: Originally Posted by SoMiss2000

Should I expect Jmood to become argumentative every time someone posts something that he doesn't agree with. Of course I should! Jmood would have it no other way. I suffered a broken hip and pelvis in a car accident and I can't remember shedding one tear when it happened. I remember the immense pain that I was in but no tears. So excuse me if I poke a little fun and big bad Terrible for crying after a itty bitty ankle fracture. However, we all know he's bitch-made, see his interviews lately?

I would hate to make you mad and start an argument so I'll leave it alone.

[jmood88]

Quote: Originally Posted by camulos

Just because you don't play doesn't mean you can't understand what's going on. You could use that logic to dispute any of the rule changes they suggest but that doesn't mean they shouldn't make them.

There are a lot of rule changes that shouldn't have happened because the refs don't know what to do during the course of a play. There's many instances where there's only one way to get the player down and that's by grabbing their shoulders. Roy Williams explained it best.

[OHguy00]

Quote: Originally Posted by Programmed2Kill

Hey heyyy...Roy Williams lost his ultimate weapon!

Damn, beat me to it.

[SoMiss2000]

Quote: Originally Posted by jmood88

There are a lot of rule changes that shouldn't have happened because the refs don't know what to do during the course of a play. There's many instances where there's only one way to get the player down and that's by grabbing their shoulders. Roy Williams explained it best.

That i agree with.


Guess what's on the agenda for next year's owners meetings. Next year all DB's will be banned from the field. However, there is a proposal that makes DB's give receivers a 20 yard cushion.

[utexas]

Roy Williams was actually on the news this morning (Channel 4 for the Metroplex) talking about his foundation. You could tell he was annoyed by the ruling and he made the vaid point that when you are trying to tackle a guy, you grab whatever you can hold on to. He said if a guy is going to beat you to a spot you got to get him down. ESPN actually showed like 30-45 secs of other players making tackles like this other than Roy. It is very common and I expect you will see the avg yd per catch to increase across the league. Safeties will be hurt the hardest by this ruling because of the angles in which they have to pursue.

[coogrfan]

The ESPN story contains the following quote:

Quote:

In each of the four cases in which players were injured by Williams, the competition committee determined the Dallas safety had ignored the opportunity to make a more conventional tackle.

Here's the play on which TO got hurt:


Is the league suggesting that RW should have tried to arm tackle Owens?!! Or that he should have dove at his feet, and hoped he didn't miss?!! If Williams doesn't get TO down, he turns the corner and uses the block being thrown by the other wr (G. Lewis?) to go down the sideline. How anybody can fault RW on this play is just beyond me.

WTF?