Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pokerbrat2000" data-source="post: 783452" data-attributes="member: 7261">When it will get really bad, is when this kind of inconsistency costs someone a regular season game.Agreed.  The way the rule is written, it leaves way too much grey area for mistakes to be made.  If the NFL sticks with the rule and adds "such calls are reviewable", its going to slow the game down to a screeching halt, simply because I think that will make the refs even more flag happy, with the notion that they don't want to miss one and let the booth get it right.  Such an easy fix really, call the NCAA and get them to tell you what they do.It is a mess and the intent is great, an effort to try and get rid of head hunting all together.  However, the application just plain sucks.  Football and tackling is a violent game, guys are going to get hurt, head up or head down, they need to realize they can't turn this into flag football, but there are ways to encourage players to not intentionally go after someone with the crown of their helmet or really in anyway that appears to be outside the scope of a clean tackle.  If a player is deemed guilty of such, the team is penalized on the field and the player is ejected and fined a hefty amount.</blockquote>

No members online now.

Total: 664 (members: 0, guests: 664)