Florio re Rodgers injury...protect QBs even more than they already are

[sb1]

Link:

Aaron Rodgers injury may usher in a radical rules change, and other Week 6 thoughts

I respect Florio but making QBs non hittable after the ball is out (similar to kickers) is a terrible idea...and a couple of the comments show why.

He also got it wrong re Brady’s injury, that was Carson Palmer that prompted the rule change.

 

[Big-T]

If he didn't put his arm out so far away from his body like Romo always did and just took the tackle he would have been fine.

QBs don't need more protection, some of them need to learn how to fall safely though.

 

[luuked]

Link:

Aaron Rodgers injury may usher in a radical rules change, and other Week 6 thoughts

I respect Florio but making QBs non hittable after the ball is out (similar to kickers) is a terrible idea...and a couple of the comments show why.

He also got it wrong re Brady’s injury, that was Carson Palmer that prompted the rule change.

I guarantee that at some point in the next 4-5 years the QB wont be hittable at all anymore. The play will be called dead as soon as he gets touched ala flag football. It bothers me a lot but logically that is the only way this can go given how important QBs have become.

 

[PatsWSB47]

Link:

Aaron Rodgers injury may usher in a radical rules change, and other Week 6 thoughts

I respect Florio but making QBs non hittable after the ball is out (similar to kickers) is a terrible idea...and a couple of the comments show why.

He also got it wrong re Brady’s injury, that was Carson Palmer that prompted the rule change.

It seems everyone calls the Palmer rule the Brady rule.

 

[RelocatedPatFan]

It seems everyone calls the Palmer rule the Brady rule.

So many people get so many things wrong. They don't take the time to get educated, just want their opinion to be right. Mostly, they just repeat drivel they hear and thing they are knowledgeable.

 

[mosslost]

Link:

Aaron Rodgers injury may usher in a radical rules change, and other Week 6 thoughts

I respect Florio but making QBs non hittable after the ball is out (similar to kickers) is a terrible idea...and a couple of the comments show why.

He also got it wrong re Brady’s injury, that was Carson Palmer that prompted the rule change.

Brady gets hit A LOT and lives to tell about it and usually makes a great pass to a breaking Gronk or Edleman at the last second. Imagine how unstoppable he would have become.

They have already done too much of this stuff. QBs needed to be tough football players back when I started watching the NFL.

 

[Nikolai]

It seems everyone calls the Palmer rule the Brady rule.

I actually once even showed a couple people how the rule was implemented because of Carson Palmer, and they fell back on "well, everyone says it's Brady, so it's Brady".

 

[mosslost]

There are already rules for late hits, and unnecessary roughness, which in many cases would cover similar situations (not saying this one)

The only kind of new rule they could make would require referee judgement calls like "intent to injure" and the last think NFL needs is the refs having judgement calls like that. If you leave the pocket and do not slide you are a runner. Now if the hit is late we already have that rule.

 

[Nehalem]

Nobody felt bad for the Pats when JG hurt his shoulder.

Rodgers should have double-checked how he fell.

 

[Tony2046]

I've been calling for a 5 mississippi rule for years. Thank God.

I don't mean 5 mississip or 5 missippi. No that would be a penalty. It would have to be 5 m-i-s-s-i-s-s-i-p-p-i.

 

[Joey007]

That would be a disastrous change to the flow of the game.

 

[Raymond]

I've been calling for a 5 mississippi rule for years. Thank God.

I don't mean 5 mississip or 5 missippi. No that would be a penalty. It would have to be 5 m-i-s-s-i-s-s-i-p-p-i.

Imagine how long the QB would have with the DE's who can't spell Mississippi!

 

[PScottman]

It's simple - players are NOT more important than the game. The game survives players getting hurt - it is part of the game.

When you make one position more important than any other and don't balance that to both sides of the contest, i.e. the defense, it isn't a contest anymore - it's an exhibition of ONE player's skill.

This doesn't mean there can't be any rules to protect players. Now if players are getting hurt in the vast majority of a play's execution (like the horse collar) yes, that execution type requires review and possible change. But this is simply a tackle - the very building block of the defensive aspect of the game.

 

[Tony2046]

It's simple - players are NOT more important than the game. The game survives players getting hurt - it is part of the game.

When you make one position more important than any other and don't balance that to both sides of the contest, i.e. the defense, it isn't a contest anymore - it's an exhibition of ONE player's skill.

This doesn't mean there can't be any rules to protect players. Now if players are getting hurt in the vast majority of a play's execution (like the horse collar) yes, that execution type requires review and possible change. But this is simply a tackle - the very building block of the defensive aspect of the game.

How about an "aggressive tackle" rule? Or a "Didn't Coddle the QB" rule?

Something has to be done.

 

[AtomicDawg]

I wonder if there is any discussion on this if a lesser QB like Blake Bortles had this happen to him. Somehow I doubt it.

 

[Sicilian]

How about instead of changing rules to protect the QB's, we change the rules so that the importance of a franchise QB is diminished and the other positions' importance is elevated? Seems to me like these QB's going down is only a disaster because the entire game is rigged to run only as far as they can go.

 

[PScottman]

Something has to be done.

I've always preferred "Don't just do something! Stand there!"

Maybe I'm just Newtonian in my approach to life - a person at rest tends to stay at rest...yada, yada, yada.

 

[AtomicDawg]

If he didn't put his arm out so far away from his body like Romo always did and just took the tackle he would have been fine.

QBs don't need more protection, some of them need to learn how to fall safely though.

To wit:

 

[bormio]

Rodgers got hurt. Let's eliminate tackling. Because he is the "Great Aaron Rodgers". Seriously ....

 

[Tony2046]

How about instead of changing rules to protect the QB's, we change the rules so that the importance of a franchise QB is diminished and the other positions' importance is elevated? Seems to me like these QB's going down is only a disaster because the entire game is rigged to run only as far as they can go.

Rugby?