So what should be done about flagrant helmet to helmet hits?

[carpanfan96]

I'll be surprised if they do anything, but anything less then 2 games for Ward on his comments and the two leading with the crown hits would be a laugh in the face of player safety. 

 

NFL has a chance to prove it really cares about player safety and health and you'll end up seeing they dont. 

[TN05]

3 hours ago, PhillyB said:

hang dean blandino at dawn

I'll bring the gasoline

[CPantherKing]

7 minutes ago, SCMunnerlyn1 said:

I have. And there is no evidence to support where it hurts the fans when the players take those shots. Nobody wants to watch refs throw laundry on the field for 60 minutes just like nobody wants to watch grown men roll around and cry when someone brushes up against their leg in a soccer game.

Personally I don't give a fat babies Dick about the safety of an athlete. They know the risks vs the rewards and as such can live with the consequences. Making all these rules every year is making the game less and less entertaining.

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Head shots and knee shots for everyone. That is the way to go. That will make for unwatchable defense and offense. The offense will need to be allowed to head shot the defenders with their OL and crack back blocks for the WRs. No safety for the defenders either. Shorter careers and make more of a game of attrition rather than strategy. Let's allow high low blocks, horse collar tackles, clotheslines, and leg whips too.

[SCMunnerlyn1]

Head shots and knee shots for everyone. That is the way to go. That will make for unwatchable defense and offense. The offense will need to be allowed to head shot the defenders with their OL and crack back blocks for the WRs. No safety for the defenders either. Shorter careers and make more of a game of attrition rather than strategy. Let's allow high low blocks, horse collar tackles, clotheslines, and leg whips too.

Actually yes. Yes to all of it. It needs to be a war from start to finish.

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[Snake]

Start suspending players and you will see it a whole lot less. 

[Squirrel]

Defense should have done the same to Denver's QB. 

 

 

[panther4life]

It all starts with the refs. If they fail to see a helmet to helmet hit on a QB behind the line of scrimmage, they should be suspended and repeat offenders should get fired. If the refs aren't calling it, it's like the players say ok, cool this is fair game and won't be called so they continue.

Any helmet to helmet hit should go under booth review. If egregious enough player should be ejected and suspended. Repeat offenders should experience longer suspensions.

[Bartin]

Use the college rule. Make them reviewable and an automatic ejection and 1 game suspension. It would stop immediately except for the truly, truly accidental ones where the receiver is going down to the ground and the defender was already going low so he hits the helmet.

[CPantherKing]

21 minutes ago, Snake said:

Start suspending players and you will see it a whole lot less. 

Only problem with suspensions is they do not prohibit a team in game. See Saints, Steelers, Patriots, and Broncos when they won their SB championship.

Need to have an immediate penalty in the game that will result in the possibility of affecting the outcome of the game on the very next play. Penalty FG kicks from the 50 without a defense would be great. Then play resumes with the 15 yard penalty at the previous spot. If you want to have a flagrant 2 and need a harsher penalty, then the ball will be placed on the 1 yard line just like PI in the end zone. The threat of points in game affects the coaches wallet/career directly, and the coaches are the one's responsible for the product on the field during a game. They will quickly pull these players out and cut them, but the bigger issue is I believe certain coaches like Kubiak and Fisher will stop teaching and then employing these tactics with their players.

We know who the dirty coaches are in this league.

[pantherphan96]

college game has targeting penalty. eject them for intentional direct helmet-to-helmet hits.

[pantherphan96]

4 minutes ago, Bartin said:

Use the college rule. Make them reviewable and an automatic ejection and 1 game suspension. It would stop immediately except for the truly, truly accidental ones where the receiver is going down to the ground and the defender was already going low so he hits the helmet.

exactly. forces defenders to use better form when tackling instead of just launching themselves at the ballcarrier

[CPantherKing]

24 minutes ago, Squirrel said:

Defense should have done the same to Denver's QB. 

I agree. If I were the coach, I would not bring these illegal tactics into the game, but I would employ them if the officials allow it for the other team and have shown a history of allowing these acts in previous games for the offending team. This puts the officials on the hot seat to call a clean game or let it be vicious and dirty. If they choose to allow one team to do these acts while penalizing the other team, then you still counter with the same acts and put the officials in the national spotlight.

[Snake]

5 minutes ago, CPantherKing said:

Only problem with suspensions is they do not prohibit a team in game. See Saints, Steelers, Patriots, and Broncos when they won their SB championship.

Need to have an immediate penalty in the game that will result in the possibility of affecting the outcome of the game on the very next play. Penalty FG kicks from the 50 without a defense would be great. Then play resumes with the 15 yard penalty at the previous spot. If you want to have a flagrant 2 and need a harsher penalty, then the ball will be placed on the 1 yard line just like PI in the end zone. The threat of points in game affects the coaches wallet/career directly, and the coaches are the one's responsible for the product on the field during a game. They will quickly pull these players out and cut them, but the bigger issue is I believe certain coaches like Kubiak and Fisher will stop teaching and then employing these tactics with their players.

We know who the dirty coaches are in this league.

There is a penalty in the game. Its called a Personal Foul and its 15 yards and a first down. Does not matter if the officials dont call it. The rules not not the problem its the enforcement of said rules. If the NFL comes out and starts to suspend players for head shots then players will not do it because they will lose paychecks. 

[Snake]

31 minutes ago, Squirrel said:

Defense should have done the same to Denver's QB. 

 

 

3 of our lineman had PFs. What do you think they would have done to our defense.