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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jaybadger82" data-source="post: 492885" data-attributes="member: 6211">In 256 regular season NFL games last season, 16 defenseless receiver penalties is not a significant total. A legal hit to the head, which I understand as a hit with the shoulder, does not present the same risk of injury or concussion as a hit with the helmet. The shoulder gives way and the defender's body absorbs a great deal of the impact. The helmet, on the other hand, does not give way and it can be a weapon on the football field. I decided to check into some actual data. According to <a href="http://www.spotrac.com/fines-tracker/nfl/2012/fines/" target="_blank">spotrac.com</a>, the NFL issued 33 fines for "Hits to Defenseless Players" but if you examine the notes accompanying each fine, you'll see that many of these came as a result of hitting a defenseless QB, offensive lineman, or RB. Some of these fines came on special teams plays. Counting those fines that were unclear, I have a total of 16 fines for hits to a defenseless TE or WR. There were just three or four such fines for hits to TEs. In 256 games. Plus there's no way to separate the hits that came over the middle from those that occurred outside the hashes. You'll also note there were just 17 fines for helmet-to-helmet hits issued last season. This doesn't indicate the total number of such penalties that were called last season, but it does shed some light on the number of crushing hits that warranted further sanction after-the-fact: there weren't many. Irrespective of the league's significant interest in curbing these sort of hits, frankly it's impractical for defensive players to hit high on large pass catchers over the middle anyway. That's not the way to bring down a 6'5", 260 pound man. Coupled with the lack of head/neck/spinal injuries to WRs and especially TEs in a league where teams are throwing across the middle more and more often, the data doesn't really support the conclusion that these guys are getting "clocked" on a weekly basis over the middle, especially the large pass catching TEs that have taken the league by storm in recent years. I'm not interested in quibbling with you over this ad nauseum. I don't believe the physical danger is as great as you seem to think it is. We can agree to disagree.</blockquote>

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