NFL Week 7

[SpongeWorthy]

I seriously cannot fathom what bizarro world you live in where you cannot imagine an instance where diving to make a tackle in football may be necessary. It's pretty comical actually.

[Banedon]

Hell I specifically remember Peppers diving and getting a sack while lying on his stomach from tripping up Rodgers(?) a few weeks ago.

[jersey cubs fan]

Hell I specifically remember Peppers diving and getting a sack while lying on his stomach from tripping up Rodgers(?) a few weeks ago.

 

That's diving while reach out for a guy, very different. What DBs are doing is diving with their arms down and head being used as a missile. It is a very easy to see distinction.

[treebird]

the smoking comparison that whoever raised on the last page is awful to the point that i don't know w

i can't believe how willing people are to let football players ruin their later years in the name of awesome hits or whatever.

 

hit a guy with your helmet, you're out of the game. that should be the rule. i'm sorry if it's not old-timey enough for you, but the old-timey people were wrong and we need to be right.

 

 

We let people ruin their later years by letting them smoke too. Maybe education could be better, but shouldn't it be up to the individual if they want to trade a potentially long and healthy life for one with the fame and money that the NFL provides?

 

The problem is that people have their post-football careers ruined by clean and dirty hits alike. That and there is a ton of gray area between what could be a clean/healthy tackle and one that would be ejection worthy.

 

maybe some people want to work in coal mines full of carbon monoxide too! freakin government infringing upon our rights.

[Guest]

the smoking comparison that whoever raised on the last page is awful to the point that i don't know w

i can't believe how willing people are to let football players ruin their later years in the name of awesome hits or whatever.

 

hit a guy with your helmet' date=' you're out of the game. that should be the rule. i'm sorry if it's not old-timey enough for you, but the old-timey people were wrong and we need to be right.[/quote']

 

 

We let people ruin their later years by letting them smoke too. Maybe education could be better, but shouldn't it be up to the individual if they want to trade a potentially long and healthy life for one with the fame and money that the NFL provides?

 

The problem is that people have their post-football careers ruined by clean and dirty hits alike. That and there is a ton of gray area between what could be a clean/healthy tackle and one that would be ejection worthy.

 

maybe some people want to work in coal mines full of carbon monoxide too! freakin government infringing upon our rights.

 

Well clearly, people who work in coal mines have the same career options as nfl athletes. They make about the same salary too!

[treebird]

the smoking comparison that whoever raised on the last page is awful to the point that i don't know w

i can't believe how willing people are to let football players ruin their later years in the name of awesome hits or whatever.

 

hit a guy with your helmet' date=' you're out of the game. that should be the rule. i'm sorry if it's not old-timey enough for you, but the old-timey people were wrong and we need to be right.[/quote']

 

 

We let people ruin their later years by letting them smoke too. Maybe education could be better, but shouldn't it be up to the individual if they want to trade a potentially long and healthy life for one with the fame and money that the NFL provides?

 

The problem is that people have their post-football careers ruined by clean and dirty hits alike. That and there is a ton of gray area between what could be a clean/healthy tackle and one that would be ejection worthy.

 

maybe some people want to work in coal mines full of carbon monoxide too! freakin government infringing upon our rights.

 

Well clearly, people who work in coal mines have the same career options as nfl athletes. They make about the same salary too!

 

there's absolutely no reason to force people to make this choice. paying people relatively large salaries doesn't change the equation at all. knowingly making people make this choice is basically evil.

 

HEY POOR PEOPLE, WANNA GET RICH? get concussions and ruin your brain for my amusement.

[SpongeWorthy]

the smoking comparison that whoever raised on the last page is awful to the point that i don't know w

i can't believe how willing people are to let football players ruin their later years in the name of awesome hits or whatever.

 

hit a guy with your helmet' date=' you're out of the game. that should be the rule. i'm sorry if it's not old-timey enough for you, but the old-timey people were wrong and we need to be right.[/quote']

 

 

We let people ruin their later years by letting them smoke too. Maybe education could be better, but shouldn't it be up to the individual if they want to trade a potentially long and healthy life for one with the fame and money that the NFL provides?

 

The problem is that people have their post-football careers ruined by clean and dirty hits alike. That and there is a ton of gray area between what could be a clean/healthy tackle and one that would be ejection worthy.

 

maybe some people want to work in coal mines full of carbon monoxide too! freakin government infringing upon our rights.

 

Well clearly, people who work in coal mines have the same career options as nfl athletes. They make about the same salary too!

 

there's absolutely no reason to force people to make this choice. paying people relatively large salaries doesn't change the equation at all. knowingly making people make this choice is basically evil.

 

HEY POOR PEOPLE, WANNA GET RICH? get concussions and ruin your brain for my amusement.

 

You're saying this as if the only reason concussions are in the game is because the rules aren't tight enough or aren't enforced properly.

 

All the rules and enforcement in the world aren't going to change the fact that you're probably going to see more concussions in American football than any other sport outside of combat sports (maybe even those too). I suppose we could abolish the sport completely or go to two hand touch/flag, that'd be a way.

[Guest]

Right, it's not like Maple bats where making a cosmetic change makes the danger go away. Playing the game correctly still carries with it the same (or similar) enormous risk. Unless you want to abolish football or make it flag or something, then that "evil choice" is always going to exist.

[treebird]

coal mining is always going to be dangerous, so let's not make the simple changes that will make it safer at little cost.

[Guest]

coal mining is always going to be dangerous, so let's not make the simple changes that will make it safer at little cost.

 

I'm certainly not saying not to ever change anything, but I think the bourgeois football fan holding down the poor athlete rhetoric is pretty over the top. There is no switch to flip that makes it all better.

[Banedon]

coal mining is always going to be dangerous, so let's not make the simple changes that will make it safer at little cost.

 

Little cost to who? The players whose primary skill is to hit other people real hard?

[NCCubFan]

McAfee has been suspended for one game by the Colts (next weekend's game against Houston, since this weekend is their bye week) for his public intoxication arrest.

[CubColtPacer]

McAfee has been suspended for one game by the Colts (next weekend's game against Houston, since this weekend is their bye week) for his public intoxication arrest.

 

It will be interesting to see if the NFLPA gets involved here. Interesting decision by the Colts to suspend McAfee after doing nothing when Moala got arrested and charged with a DWI earlier this year.

 

Dallas Clark is also out indefinitely and there are lots of whispers that he may be gone for the year.

[ELCABALLO45]

This has been said before but good NFL kickers and punters have the greatest life EVER.

[NCCubFan]

Dallas Clark is also out indefinitely and there are lots of whispers that he may be gone for the year.

That would be a huge blow. I think he's the best TE in the game today.

[NonProfitCow]

Dallas Clark is also out indefinitely and there are lots of whispers that he may be gone for the year.

That would be a huge blow. I think he's the best TE in the game today.

Antonio Gates thinks you're a fool.

[17 Seconds]

This has been said before but good NFL kickers and punters have the greatest life EVER.

 

outside of the game, sure. but don't all the other players hate them? then they get destroyed everytime they miss a kick

[NCCubFan]

Dallas Clark is also out indefinitely and there are lots of whispers that he may be gone for the year.

That would be a huge blow. I think he's the best TE in the game today.

Antonio Gates thinks you're a fool.

Good point. OK, one of the best.

[erik316wttn]

This has been said before but good NFL kickers and punters have the greatest life EVER.

 

I'd choose to be a long snapper. Rarely is the long snapper in a pressure situation where the game rests mostly on him, like the kicker.

 

Being a punter would be pretty sweet too, though.

[Exile on Waveland]

McAfee has been suspended for one game by the Colts (next weekend's game against Houston, since this weekend is their bye week) for his public intoxication arrest.

 

It will be interesting to see if the NFLPA gets involved here. Interesting decision by the Colts to suspend McAfee after doing nothing when Moala got arrested and charged with a DWI earlier this year.

 

Dallas Clark is also out indefinitely and there are lots of whispers that he may be gone for the year.

 

The suspension for McAfee is ridiculous. I don't think he even should have been arrested, he should have been walked home instead.

 

I really hope Clark isn't out for the year, yeesh.

[SouthSideRyan]

This has been said before but good NFL kickers and punters have the greatest life EVER.

 

I'd choose to be a long snapper. Rarely is the long snapper in a pressure situation where the game rests mostly on him, like the kicker.

 

Being a punter would be pretty sweet too, though.

 

I think Trey Junkin is still crying.

[Magnetic Curses]

i don't understand the violent hit rule. are they just fining and enforcing suspensions for helmet-to-helmet hits?

 

if so, it works for me, a lot of defensive backs run around with their helmets down (bob sanders the player) and that pisses me off, but they can't penalize people for hard, clean hits like bennett's block on that punk punter.

[erik316wttn]

i don't understand the violent hit rule. are they just fining and enforcing suspensions for helmet-to-helmet hits?

 

if so, it works for me, a lot of defensive backs run around with their helmets down (bob sanders the player) and that pisses me off, but they can't penalize people for hard, clean hits like bennett's block on that punk punter.

 

I think Banedon has already said the league has backed off of the talk of suspending/fining hard but clean hits, and will only go after the "illegal" hits.

 

Speaking of which, could James Harrison be any more of a crybaby over this new rule? Threatening retirement over it, because he can no longer be dirty? Cry me a river. Get a real job like the rest of us.

[jersey cubs fan]

He's already applying for other gigs

 

 

some naughty language

[Banedon]

I think Banedon has already said the league has backed off of the talk of suspending/fining hard but clean hits, and will only go after the "illegal" hits.

 

Ray Anderson is the NFL VP of Football Operations

 

But what about the widespread notion, pushed for the last 12 hours by ESPN, that "devastating hits" and "head shots" will be legislated out of the game?

 

Said Anderson: "I don't know where the word devastating came from but that's not my word."

 

So whose word was it?

 

According to Mortensen, Anderson said, "We've got to get the message to players that these devastating hits and head shots will be met with a very necessary higher standard of accountability. We have to dispel the notion that you get one free pass in these egregious or flagrant shots." (Emphasis added.)

 

So whether or not he actually said it, he's clearly backing off of it.