09-11-2017, 01:20 PM
(09-11-2017, 11:28 AM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: I've been saying that for years, every year I inch a bit farther in that direction. I almost didn't get Sunday ticket this year. Goodell, as he does in every instance, shit the bed with the new "safety" rules. Yes, it's fine to penalize a guy for targeting another dude's head like as missile. It's quite another thing to penalize a guy for not having the ability to change his mind in a split second or alter the laws of physics and completely alter their body's inertia. The Gay penalty (pun intended) yesterday was horrific. Not only was it a bad call, they made it after they watched the jumbotron replay of the hit. Seriously, WTF!? Basically, you will now be penalized in the NFL if you hit a dude too hard. Football isn't half the sport it was in the 70s-90s.
Yeah it's bad. I was one of the few here who didn't have a problem with the majority of what James Harrison did.
This whole thing of not taking into account the fact that receivers can lower themselves turning a hit to the chest into a hit to the head is ridiculous. I didn't see the Gay hit outside of that little clip, but if they looked at the (do they really have jumbotrons still

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