Knee blow outs don't lead to lawsuits. Nor do they lead to the same severity of life long problems as head shots do. I honestly fear that football is going to really become a game a don't recognize. Apologies for pulling the high school football card, but when I played we were taught to do the exact things that these penalties are outlawing. I may have read it here, but I saw someone suggest we loosen up the "no touching" rules for the DBs defending on pass plays. I think that could bring some defense back to the game. A team is going to go 5 wide and exploit the targeting rules in the middle while testing the pass interference rules deep with at least one guy a play. Its going to ruin everything, just like Hack-a-Shaq.
Blame Bill Polian and Peyton Manning for crying about the Pats D so much they cracked down on illegal contact. I think they should expand it to ten yards where you're allowed to get your hands on a guy and mess with him. That shift in enforcement was a cynical ploy to increase scoring, and it worked. Now if you're a DB you're always treading that fine line between "great defense" and "oops you touched him too much".
It's true though. Blame Ty Law for manhandling Marvin Harrison to the point it was almost assault. And it was beautiful.
The real problem is the fact that no matter what rules you change, the offenses will just run right up to the point where it's dangerous again. The defenseless receiver rules are the reason guys like Wes welker are getting 100+ catches, and all the floaters over the middle increase the likelihood of a dangerous hit, intentional or not. If you want to cut down on the injuries, start fining the quarterbacks who hang their receivers out to dry between the hashes.
Sure, because that's enforceable. Everyone has an easy solution for how you cut down on injuries. Oh, just change this one rule, or start fining this one person. It'll all be better after that. The reality is that the sport is predicated on freakishly fast and strong athletes hitting each other, and as time goes on, the evolution of the sport is honing the players to be faster, stronger, and hit harder. You are not going to fix the injury problem with just one rule change - it's going to take a total upheaval of the way the sport is played in order to correct it.
I agree. Players are getting too fast and too strong to try to avoid any kind of injury. In a way, the helmets and pads add to the damage as it allows players to turn themselves into human missiles, although I would love to know if there has been any kind of similar study on concussions done on rugby players. At this point, the players are well aware of the risks involved and can make informed decisions. I see it in much the same vein as smokers back in the day. People that smoked back when cigarettes claimed to freshen your breath, whiten your teeth, so those that got shafted back then should definitely get financial compensation. Now if you start smoking? You should get squat.
There is nothing I would love more then to have sat and watched that game in a room full of Texans fans giggling. You should want this season to tank so you get a new coach who isn't as predictable as a 10 year old in Madden. Also you need a new RB, you wore out the treads on the one you have. Same with TE, and WR. Good luck guys. Hopefully half the team survives before JJ Watt gets hungry and eats all of them.
Pretty sure that's how he ended up with 7 kids in the first place... Might want to try a different approach.
Anyone else upset that the Colts are going to be playing the Broncos in a huge fucking game, but only have like 2.75 days rest? That's pretty shitty.
You should know better than to believe the every word of a stripper athlete baby mama suddenly in the limelight. Do you believe them when they tell you they love your shirt and you're their funniest customer too?
'Sack, admit it. The only reason the AP thing bothers you is because he's black, rich and educated. I bet your ex wife would be fucking him right now if she could. Hell she might be as we speak. She might be carrying the 8th child he doesn't know about right now. Who knows? I'm sure half those chicks lied about being on birth control or poked a hole in the condom. That shit happens, chicks know how to get a paycheck. The other half were probably drunken nights where shit happens. Oh well, let's move on. Who gives a fuck? He can pay for all of them to go to college.
He's paying for them. He was paying for that second one and probably the others he knows about. Doesn't mean he's not uneducated, he just likes to fuck a lot. You're not going to have to pay for shit. Phillip River's has 7 kids. If he dies on the field, you'll have to pay for THOSE kids because his wife is going to run out of money eventually. You're not mad at him for having 7 kids regardless who the mothers are. You stop being an unoriginal racist piece of shit and I'll stop unoriginally bringing up the fact your ex-wife is being impregnated by The Minnesota Viking offensive line.
Sack, while you're at it, can we have an update on Antonio Cromartie? That guy's got to be in the low 20's by now.
Not sure if you've been to the great white south broham, but white people do it to. Jesus no wonder she had you sit down to pee, so you'd have time to think full thoughts before just vomiting dumb racist words. They all have been inside your ex-wife?
Enough of this shit. There are flames in 3 very active threads right now and I'm getting sick of it. This is the NFL thread not the baby mammas thread. Get the fuck over it and like I say every god damn time, take your bitch to PM. NO ONE CARES. Next one to post about this shit gets a week off.
Editors Note: In a previous post, Parker may have referred to the Colts being on 2.75 days of rest. For some retarded reason, he thought they were playing the Thursday night game. He completely forgot every Thursday night game sucks because the NFL network is bad. We regret the error.