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The modified overtime in regular season proposal has passed, as did making all turnovers reviewed.
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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.The modified overtime in regular season proposal has passed, as did making all turnovers reviewed.
League will now review all endzone plays. The rule changes that didn't pass were moving all replays to the booth, and horsecollar tackle
Pushing back trade deadline from week 6 to week 8 was tabled until May. More discussion with NFLPA needed.
Other rules changes: a team will lose a down for illegally kicking a loose ball; too many men on the field becomes a dead ball foul; and a player receiving a crackback block is now considered a defenseless player and will result in a 15-yard penalty.
Proposals that would have changed the injured reserve designation and pushed back the trade deadline were tabled, but NFL Network insider Jason La Canfora reported that many executives believe both changes will be approved at a later date.
one proposal that didn’t make it through the voting process was to make horse collar tackles on quarterbacks in the pocket illegal.
As someone that has seen extensive time on the D-Line, I'm a huge fan of the modified crackback block rule.
This is absurd...why don't they just wear flags already
PLAYOFF OT RULES in REGULAR SEASON = MORE TIES
I hate this mentality.
We can have a game of football that is fun and compelling to watch while also mitigating injuries to the players.
Let's hold ourselves to a higher standard than Rome or some ****.
We pay money to watch modern day gladiators get as strong and fast as they possibly can and then run into eachother as hard and fast as they can.
If you want to hold yourself to a "higher standard" i'd suggest golf. Not the most brutal sport on the earth where you have to wear something on your head to keep yourself from being MURDERED by another human being.
Sure, so let's give them nunchucks because it's a violent sport. Football has to find a happy medium to both make it enjoyable to watch and to reduce injuries, these are real people playing, not robots. Preventing cheap hits (a good thing) isn't the same as eliminating all of the violence from the game (a bad thing). I'm disappointed the horsecollar rule didn't pass. About the only proposal I didn't like this year was moving reviews to the booth. The ref should have final say.Let's not kid ourselves we're fanatics, there's nothing high brow about it.
We pay money to watch modern day gladiators get as strong and fast as they possibly can and then run into eachother as hard and fast as they can.
If you want to hold yourself to a "higher standard" i'd suggest golf. Not the most brutal sport on the earth where you have to wear something on your head to keep yourself from being MURDERED by another human being.
Psst...there are plenty of sports where you win by beating the other guy up so badly that he can't get up off the floor. In football, you win by scheming 11 men to work together moving a ball up and down the field.
Obviously, it's a hard contact sport, but I'm not at all convinced that the brutal, gladiatorial spectacle is the game's be-all and end-all appeal as you suggest. (If it were, wouldn't defensive linemen be bigger stars than QBs and WRs?)
Sure, so let's give them nunchucks because it's a violent sport. Football has to find a happy medium to both make it enjoyable to watch and to reduce injuries, these are real people playing, not robots. Preventing cheap hits (a good thing) isn't the same as eliminating all of the violence from the game (a bad thing).
Yeah, so there's strategy, doesn't make it any less violent. I'm sure gladiators had strategies on what would be the best way to KILL their opponent.
Commanders in wars have strategies as well, people still die. Are you honestly trying to tell me that because there's strategy involved it's suddenly less low brow and violent?
the most brutal sport on earth where you have to wear something on your head to keep yourself from being MURDERED by another human being.
I'm honestly trying to tell you that there's a difference between a sport where the objective is physical injury, and a sport where physical injury is an inevitable side effect for some participants.
You claimed that American football is:
I disagreed with your reasoning. First off, a great many sports require protective headgear. If, as you say, protective gear requirements are a sign of brutality, then does the incredible violence of rugby, with its high injury rates, somehow not count? Is bare-knuckle boxing less brutal than boxing with gloves?
In your response, you suggested that death rate instead is the true marker of brutality. In that case, pole vaulting and surfing are far, far more brutal than, say, peaceable kickboxing.
I've never claimed that tackle football isn't violent, that would be silly. I'm just saying that unlike gladiator fights, football's objective isn't injury -- and that matters enormously in how you structure the rules.