Tom brady recently said the following: https://www.yahoo.com/sports/tom-brady-thinks-theres-a-lot-of-mediocrity-in-todays-nfl-165956606.html
Essentially, rules are regulating player safety more than players themselves. Sick of QBs going down? Maybe QBs should be learning how to play more safely themselves instead of putting them in harms way.
Why I agree with this comment is because these injuries are creating more rules that regulate player safety and downgrade the ability to play hard defense (which I still enjoy watching).
Now, I think Kareem Jackson’s hit is illegal and has been illegal for a decade+. But, what about HARD hits that are legal but draw a flag ‘just in case.’
Rules regulating this style of play is a slippery slope. We can keep going down this rabbit hole of more and more rules around how a player is hit. But, at what point does it stop? WORSE – it’s easy to make another rule, but how do you get rid of rules if the NFL decides they went too far?
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Some of you all are missing the point. I’m not trying to state that ‘old is better than new.’‘’
I understand the dangers, I also suffer from a severe TBI.
Helmet to helmet has no place in the nfl.
But the other rules. Imagine being defense and having to expect throughout the year to have fines just by simply playing the game.
Not about being ‘soft,’ it is about these rules and fines that continue to spiral. Eventually, it WILL have gone too far. At that point, do you really see the NFL taking the rules away; “opps sorry guys, it was wrong to make ankle tackle illegal.”
Brady’s point was that you wouldn’t throw over the middle against certain teams. Playing smart that way instead of relying more and more rules that take away the need to worry about those nuances.
I’m not a Brady fan and have know about the rules that revolved around him. He still makes a good point.