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Football has gotten pretty sad


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The safety from the Saints lowered his shoulder and blasted the wr from the Pats. He lowered his shoulder. The wr from the Pats head was grazed incidentally and he immediately starts crying for the flag which he got. Even the announcers are saying you just cant play it better than the safety. Lowered his shoulder, didn't lead with head. Such bullchives. There is protecting players and there is making it impossible for a guy to break up a play with a hit anymore

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Agreed. In an earlier game Groves, I believe, put a hit on Stafford and it was 100% clean and he got called for roughing the passer.

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I think the NFL needs a new rule. If you turn to the refs and ask for a flag, you get one. But it's on you.

 

 

I think this would be an excellent idea. Asking for a flag pisses me off almost as much as diving in soccer.

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You lost me at soccer.

 

 

I'm from Europe. I try my hardest but it is impossible not to see or hear about it. Nothing that reminds NFL of soccer is good for the game.

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You lost me at soccer.

 

 

well that defeats the purpose as soccer was the last word of the statement so you read it all.

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I did see quite a few unsportsmanlike calls today. Many of them were needless. You can include the Thursday night game when a defender touched Cutler with his fingertips as well. It was definitely on the agenda for this week to have a few of those called.

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Yep they seem to be erring on the side of calling things when they are even close, which is getting pretty aggravating. Guys tackle with proper form, and then some very minor and incidental contact makes it a penalty. But I doubt things will change in the other direction.

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These penalties need to be reviewable. If a guy comes in with a shoulder but grazes the face mask, that's a penalty now?

 

Now I know why that rookie safety for the Texans went low on Dustin Keller in the preseason. The NFL clearly doesn't want guys heads hit in the slightest, so defenses might as well start going low, which is gonna result in a lot more leg injuries.

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These penalties need to be reviewable. If a guy comes in with a shoulder but grazes the face mask, that's a penalty now?

 

Now I know why that rookie safety for the Texans went low on Dustin Keller in the preseason. The NFL clearly doesn't want guys heads hit in the slightest, so defenses might as well start going low, which is gonna result in a lot more leg injuries.

 

 

I don't think review is the answer, if we start reviewing penalties that opens up all sorts of things, why not review PI, holding and other penalties.

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