Yet the owners (ours included) voted for it...hmmm...maybe there is no vast conspiracy?

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I think what pisses me off even more than giving SOME of these clowns the freedom to make a call like this without INSTANT replay conformation, or overturn, is the dumbass Leagues head honcho following up on a bad call with a f#^@&g fine.
That's like saying I don't care that this bad call was unwarented, just suck it up, and take the injustice up your ass.

personally I think it's greendiculous, but that's just me.

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So if it's done in a bunched up situation, it removes the penalty option, as well as the same possibility for injury?
I guess I don't understand the difference.

The NFL is covering their ass, because there are too many bleeding hearts that would like to see football banned.

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This is about former player lawsuits, not about player safety or anything else.

All this player safety BS is really starting to piss me off. Nobody forces the players to play, they all choose to because it beats pumping gas or working a checkout at Walmart.
There are so many far more dangerous jobs done by hard working people who never come close to seeing a million dollars in their whole lifetime never mind the tens of millions that some of these nancy boys make.
Another rule change or two similar to this one and it won't be long before teams are regularly racking up more penalty yards than passing yards.

How many other plays should not have been flagged but were due to "heat of the moment" flags?
ie. how many flags were thrown but fines not given for such plays for us last year?

Kam didn't get a fine for that play because they reviewed it and said it was OK.
I don't remember it happening any other time in over 1000 snaps. Note: I'm not talking about plays where the refs have thrown soft flags like Earl's PI against Miami or just about every call in the Green Bay game, I'm talking about ones where they've called a player's play dangerous when it was within the rules.

My guess is that we won't even know this rule exists in 90% of games and it will not have any impact and we won't notice a different. Freaking out about nothing.

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True, but it's that 10% that "freaks" me out. This IS the Seahawks we're talking about

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Why is it when I try to come off as a smart ass, the opposite happens? :-(

Not there, but there might be a common belief that more passing = more points = more viewers = more revenue.

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For people who keep saying this is "ruining the game" I have to wonder, were my high school coaches ruining the game also when they taught us to never initiate contact with the top of our helmet on either side of the ball?

The way I see it, upset fans seem to have 2 different angles for their rage:

1. The reduction of violent collisions (which includes the 'two-hand touch' and 'pussification' crowds)
2. The in-game officials having too much subjective power

I can see the 2nd, but anyone upset by #1 must also think that youngsters have been taught the wrong way to play football – as it pertains to the crown of the helmet – since at least the 1990s.

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What most of you don't realize is that the crown of your head is more towards the back of your head then the front of your head. The rule is being made a big deal, but truthfully it is best for all involved. This rule will not change much of the season- it's more to promote player safety and awareness as well as cover their butts.

The player can still put their head down a bit, they just can lead drop their chin to their chest all the way.

http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-videos/0ap2000000152145/Crown-of-the-helmet-hit-rule-explained?campaign=Twitter_videos_crown

Summary:
-Jeff Fisher points to the crown of his head (back top portion) and state that is the only part that is involved in this rule change. The face mask and front top of the head (hairline) is legal.
- They are going to send tape that is legal and a lot of it will be, there will only be a few instances in which it won't be legal.
- In order for this play to even be illegal the player must "line up" the other player in the open field.
- They will teach the on field officials the proper way. Before the penalty is called, the officials are encouraged to meet in a group to come to a consensus rather than calling it from just one view.

Notes:
-The Michael Robinson hit on the Bears CB was included, but I didn't see the Lynch play vs. the 49ers on there.


Do you really think 31 out of 32 teams would agree on this rule if it meant players couldn't be aggresive? Of course not. They are trying to make it clear that when you go up against another guy, you shouldn't drop your head so that your face mask is parallel with the ground which could cause serious spinal cord issues.

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Also, on the Lynch hit vs. Goldson he hits his shoulder & head into him. I would be shocked if that is an illegal hit based upon what I've read and how to interpret it.

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Just listening to John Clayton on 710 ESPN he said the NFL only looked through 2 weeks of games to make a judgement on this rule. So those 11 timea it would be called a penalty number people were throwing out there.......those 11 were in only a 2 week stretch, not the entire season. Meaning that this would be a call or penalty much more often than it should be. Again......horrible rule.

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I don't think hitting with face mask is going to be illegal, which is mostly what lynch does.

I think they are trying to stop this:


and it should be illegal. Defensive players have been getting jobbed for rule changes that are good for both players, this is just the offensive side of the ball picking up on safety.

That wouldn't be affected. It's OUTSIDE the tackle box. It won't affect 3rd and short situations.

They are talking about abandoning kickoffs. They've already almost made return specialists irrelevant by moving up the kickoff spot. How is that not changing the game? What about laying WRs out across the middle? A staple of players like Sam Huff, Ronnie Lott, and Tatum. That's gone. Now the RB, a position that up until this point has been sacrosanct because he's carrying the ball, is being meddled with. Walter Payton would laugh at the absurdity. They are indeed trying to change the game and the way it's played. If you can't see that I don't know what to tell you.

Rog is a lawyer and he's administering the league like a lawyer, with the approval of the owners. I have little patience anymore with their ridiculous fake crusade. It's probably why I get so irritated by the continuous stream of rules they insist on pushing through.

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