Wild Card Weekend Gamethread
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Well this is a big part of it for me. These guys know the risks. No one is forcing Matt Moore to play in the NFL. This isn't the 1980s where he doesn't know concussions are bad. He is assuming the risks of being on the field. I'm not going to sit here and worry about his personal safety.
Damn it. For all the good Moore's done it's all negated with him running around waving the ball with one hand.
The Steelers do as good a job as anyone except the Ravens of preventing the offense from getting back to the huddle. They stay on the ground, keep their legs on top of offensive players, and paw at the ball. It's really effective with a 40 second play clock instead of a ready for play 25 second clock.
Miami is constantly late to the line, and it matters. They are always scrambling.
Miami is constantly late to the line, and it matters. They are always scrambling.
The little (or not so little) things like ball protection and awareness of where the enemy is you lose from inactivity.
He's playing under a regime where he's supposed to be protected. Also, that's pretty much a screw the world logic. Cops. Soldiers. Addicts.
The NFL is going to eventually figure out Bell's movements. Because it's crazy that it works.
If we are 100% concerned about player safety, then the block by Floyd last week needs to be outlawed. I haven't looked in last week's game thread, but did everyone have this much concern over player safety after he laid out Lippett?
You're the guy who stopped going to the Coliseum in the 5th century when they banned the munera, since what's the point if the losers don't die ?
Two Miami defenders had Bell dead to rights in the backfield, and they take each other out. Unreal.
The difference is we're debating a hit here that looks like it was illegal, whereas the Floyd one was completely legal.
The first step is calling the illegal ones.
I don't know. I'm upset at the moment so I'm sure I'm being a bit harsh, but it's also not in Moore's DNA to tuck and take a sack. Not doing the safe thing is pretty much his default setting, it's why some Dolphins fans always preferred him to Tannehill.
This steelers team isn't winning next week. Kansas City won't hand turnovers repeatedly like Miami is doing
This is weak sauce.
How about if players use proper technique and lead with the shoulder while wrapping up instead of going for the helmet shot with no attempt to wrap up?
Vance Joseph is busy interviewing for head coaching jobs---some drills may have slipped through the cracks
If you make it a 15-yard penalty for the ball carrier to stiff arm a tackling player in the back, more defenders will tackle in a fundamentally sound way, as rugby players do. Until then, players will continue to lead with their head, because proper tackling puts them at a competitive disadvantage (unless you've got a chance to size up a defenseless target, like Earl Thomas did to Gronk).
So, my two friends whose deaths are traceable to boxing injuries - the tragedy is they never got big paydays? These are human beings we're talking about.
No, typically there's some bitter homers from other teams who wander in and lower the bar.
So now we're concerned with rules and not the player's humanity? Got it. If Lippett develops CTE, he can be at ease knowing it was a legal hit.
I view big hits differently depending on context. A QB to throw a football needs to put himself in a totally exposed position, just like Moore on that second hit. Same with receivers. To do your job in a correct and entertaining way, you are at risk of severe bodily injury. I find this quite different from middle of the field hits by players expecting contact.
Punts and kick offs are a problem too and require protection, because unlike line of scrimmage plays you are making a running start to full contact.
A play like the Floyd play is in a middle area. You set rules, and identify correct technique and zones in the front of the body where you can hit, because it's hard to throw flags for it looks bad without making players unable to play.
Punts and kick offs are a problem too and require protection, because unlike line of scrimmage plays you are making a running start to full contact.
A play like the Floyd play is in a middle area. You set rules, and identify correct technique and zones in the front of the body where you can hit, because it's hard to throw flags for it looks bad without making players unable to play.