NFL Sends Videos to All Teams of Legal/Illegal Hits -- and here it is

[Amnorix]

see link. The NFL sent this to all teams, instructing all head coaches to show it to all players.

http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-videos.../Player-safety

[Donger]

Originally Posted by Amnorix

I agree that hits to the head can be "caused" by the receiving player ducking. There is also the fight between offensive and defensive players to get low for leverage and, for the defender, to get under a ducking offensive player wtih the ball in an effort to dislodge the ball and cause a fumble.

The answer is that the NFL does not give a flying f**k about those issues. Their answer, really, is that if you want to do anything more aggressive than "wrapping up" the player, then you better make absolutely goddamn sure you don't hit his head. Forearm shivers to the head are OUT. Shoulders to the head are OUT. Head to anything is OUT. Launching is OUT.

And to be honest, while we can all sit here and make comments about putting skirts on players and all that, it doesn't take too many viewings of a Kevin Turner (former Patriots player who now has ALS, or Chris Henry, the Bengals player who died, had an autopsy perofrmed, and became the 50th person diagnosed with a condition caused by repeated severe brain trauma.




http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=5333971


So yeah, ultimately, I'm good with it.

I don't know about the players, but you sure are in need of a good bra fitting. Sissy. Don't forget: every girl needs at least one little black dress.

[gblowfish]

Yep, just as I thought.
Here's the game recap.
Read the blurb down about 2/3 before they start talking about Lawrence Tynes:

http://scores.espn.go.com/nfl/recap?gameId=291004012

[Iowanian]

This is so wrong.

What should happen is that after a KO hit, the player should stand over the destroyed victim and look up to the Owner's box for the Thumbs up or Thumbs down to Finish him or show mercy.

[Bane]

Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

Great point George.

It just shows you how "open to interpretation" alot of this stuff is. Plus, when this stuff is happening at about 100 miles per hour in real time, it makes it 10 times harder to get a call correct.

So in other words they'll likely sit and review damn near every hit every week and possibly deal out penalties.

[gblowfish]

Originally Posted by Huffman83

BULLSHIT BULLSHIT BULLSHIT! That hit that was "clean." according to the video was called as a penalty. Page knocked that guys dick in the dirt "legally." and they still called it a penalty.

I agree it was a clean hit.
It was a GREAT hit.

But on that day, Page was called for Roughness. And it lead to a NY Giants TD.

Turned the whole game.

Now they're saying its clean, but it didn't help us that day one bit.

[Bane]

Originally Posted by gblowfish

I agree it was a clean hit.
It was a GREAT hit.

But on that day, Page was called for Roughness. And it lead to a NY Giants TD.

Turned the whole game.

Now they're saying its clean, but it didn't help us that day one bit.

Yeah so it's not gonna matter of it gets called on the field during play.You'll have someone sitting at a desk watching it frame by frame with 20 assistants deciding if the hit was ok or not.

[The Franchise]

Originally Posted by gblowfish

I agree it was a clean hit.
It was a GREAT hit.

But on that day, Page was called for Roughness. And it lead to a NY Giants TD.

Turned the whole game.

Now they're saying its clean, but it didn't help us that day one bit.

Yeah...and notice in the video how they cut out the flag being thrown.

[vailpass]

Originally Posted by Iowanian

This is so wrong.

What should happen is that after a KO hit, the player should stand over the destroyed victim and look up to the Owner's box for the Thumbs up or Thumbs down to Finish him or show mercy.

Yes. We are amused.

[Zaiko]

Yeah we got flagged for that one. Maybe they need to make this video bigger and send it to the refs so they stop calling unnecessary roughness for any big hit

[Deberg_1990]

Originally Posted by gblowfish

I agree it was a clean hit.
It was a GREAT hit.

But on that day, Page was called for Roughness. And it lead to a NY Giants TD.

Turned the whole game.

Now they're saying its clean, but it didn't help us that day one bit.

George, u should really consider calling the NFL out on the hypocrosy here. Send an email to the media and the league detailing this. See if u get an answer.
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[Demonpenz]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdlFOEZmvys

i thought this is what football of the future was going to be like

[Demonpenz]

1:40- 1:50 mark of the video i posted AWW YOU BLEW IT!

[Gadzooks]

Originally Posted by Guru

I don't really see how the Ray Lewis hit was much different than the others. He still launched which was one of the buzz words of the video.

I believe the definition of "launching" is when the player leaves his feet. Not sure though…
Either way, it's a matter of inches and split seconds between a dirty and a league approved good clean hit.

[tmh]

unrelated, the NFL was given some award on head injury awarness and prevention the same day this came out

[007]

Originally Posted by Gadzooks

I believe the definition of "launching" is when the player leaves his feet. Not sure though…
Either way, it's a matter of inches and split seconds between a dirty and a league approved good clean hit.

The way I have seen launching defined is any upward motion. Hell, Lewis technically left his feet in that hit too.