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Originally Posted by -King-
Man, hard hits are a part of football. Now there are players like Burfict who take it to an insane level. But **** that, if you can lay a hard hit, lay it. As long as you're not purposefully out there trying to injure people, hard hits are a part of the game. Unfortunately, sometimes injuries happen. Thats the risk of football. I want Thornhill doing that every chance he gets and as long as there's no helmet to helmet contact, there should never be a flag.
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I do not agree with you when it comes to defenseless receivers. You don’t have to hit stick to play tough. And often times these big hitters like abrams with the raiders make dumb mistakes because they want to make a statement hit instead of making an actual play. Many of these are easily avoidable just by using your arms to actually play the ball the way you’re supposed to. The nfl usually lets players hit. It’s just that moment when receivers are extremely vulnerable that they’re monitoring. Or at least, they do for every team but us.
Things are different now with concussion protocols. And unless your suggestion is to get rid of those protocols then you are incentivizing defensive players to tonya Harding players like we saw in bountygate. I’d rather see the best on the field. I don’t want defenses gaining a gigantic advantage knowing that they can send their worst players to knock out the enemies best players.
I’ll bitch about targeting overenforcement like the rest of them. But I also get why these rules are in place. People forget how absolutely shitty the league was a few years ago when half the QBs were backups.