And what does his father think? Former OT Jon Runyan Sr. is currently an appeals officer for the NFL and conduct/discipline.
“Apparently, they send out a weekly video talking about that,” Runyan said. “Apparently, that was in the weekly video but I had no idea. I didn’t even know they sent out a weekly video on points of emphasis
Bruh
People get up in arms as if the NFL changing the rules to influence the way the game is played is unprecedented.
Some stuff is more likely to injure players, so they change the rules. People have more fun watching the NFL all season when the stars are healthy. Maybe you don’t get that wild flying tackle on a QB making a highlight, but you also get 40 more highlights from the QB who isn’t on injured reserve the rest of the year.
Unpopular opinion: just change the rule so all you have to do is wrap up a QB if they’re in the pocket and don’t even tackle them anymore. Aaron Rogers getting injured on drive 1 is boring. I would’ve rather seen him play. Anthony Richardson was electric. I’d rather see him play. Guys like AR would probably still get injured because of how they play, but let QBs be safe from injury in the pocket and just wrap them up.
With the current rules protecting passers, that’s essentially all linemen are doing, anyway. They are just falling down once they wrap them up which is kind of irrelevant. You could still try to whack the ball out of their hand if you wanted and “violently” wrap them up. Just don’t bring them to the ground.
QB sneak? Boring. Just make it against the rules, who cares? lol.
I dont know why the NFL has such a hard on for altering the game of football
Because to the NFL its not a sport its an entertainment product. They weren’t pushing the Swifty nonsense so hard because it was good for the game, only because it was good for their bottom line.
Because they don’t see QB sneaks as “exciting” so they’ll throw a flag for offsides and kill a drive so the fans can see the most electrifying play in all of sports entertainment, the punt
Gotta get those change of possession ads in