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**BuyCheapest** · 06-10-2009, 03:02 PM

I agree with you. I think the NFL protects the QB too much. However, I'm not going to blame a QB for taking advantage of the rule.

Honestly, I'm not sure why I gave you such a rough time. I just don't like Brady's attitude, but yes, I don't blame him for being a baby. The problem is that the Competition Committee was (gasp with surprise) too vague with their rule...that goes for both the head and leg shots. You allow a referee to judge whether a defender pulls up or not on taking down a QB, why can't he judge the intent of a defender when he hits a QB on the head or in the shins? It's stupid to say that you can never hit a QB's head...does that mean that, if his arm's going back, you cause a fumble, but your hand contacts his head that it's a 15 yard penalty and you don't keep the fumble you recovered?

Do I think they need to protect QB's? Yes. But there was already plenty of protection. You get one step before hitting a QB w/o the ball (unless you're New England, who can take three steps and crunch as hard as they want). You can't throw them to the ground. You can't drive them into the ground. You can't make helmet-to-helmet contact. That's good enough. This knee injury and head injury stuff happens to every player, even after rules to penalize face mask infractions, horse collars, and chop blocks. It still happens. Ed Reed was right to joke about two hand touch, because that's what it's coming to. You will never legislate injury out of the game, and reacting ONLY because a marquee player goes down (where was the rule when Carson Palmer, Donovan McNabb, Joe Montana, Michael Vick, and many others went down with leg and head injuries?) is senseless and indicative of a poorly-managed league.

06-10-2009, 03:02 PM	#36
BuyCheapest Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 625 Senior Member	I agree with you. I think the NFL protects the QB too much. However, I'm not going to blame a QB for taking advantage of the rule. Honestly, I'm not sure why I gave you such a rough time. I just don't like Brady's attitude, but yes, I don't blame him for being a baby. The problem is that the Competition Committee was (gasp with surprise) too vague with their rule...that goes for both the head and leg shots. You allow a referee to judge whether a defender pulls up or not on taking down a QB, why can't he judge the intent of a defender when he hits a QB on the head or in the shins? It's stupid to say that you can never hit a QB's head...does that mean that, if his arm's going back, you cause a fumble, but your hand contacts his head that it's a 15 yard penalty and you don't keep the fumble you recovered? Do I think they need to protect QB's? Yes. But there was already plenty of protection. You get one step before hitting a QB w/o the ball (unless you're New England, who can take three steps and crunch as hard as they want). You can't throw them to the ground. You can't drive them into the ground. You can't make helmet-to-helmet contact. That's good enough. This knee injury and head injury stuff happens to every player, even after rules to penalize face mask infractions, horse collars, and chop blocks. It still happens. Ed Reed was right to joke about two hand touch, because that's what it's coming to. You will never legislate injury out of the game, and reacting ONLY because a marquee player goes down (where was the rule when Carson Palmer, Donovan McNabb, Joe Montana, Michael Vick, and many others went down with leg and head injuries?) is senseless and indicative of a poorly-managed league.
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