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This rule would only seem to encourage players to hit the best players on the other team as hard as they possibly can. At which point the number of hits requir
by mechanical_fish 15y ago
This rule would only seem to encourage players to hit the best players on the other team as hard as they possibly can.
At which point the number of hits required to knock someone out of the game tends to decrease over time, the length of time during which a game contains the best players tends to decrease over time, and the desire of anyone to keep playing this game tends to approach zero.
- derekp7 15y agoAh, that can be solved with penalties for bad hits, just like there is a major penalty for face masking. Also, from what I can tell, the major hits are helmet-to-helmet, so any purposeful infliction on one player may have an equal infliction on the other. Also, I wasn't proposing that this would have an immediate effect of taking a player out of an in-progress game (actually, re-reading what I wrote it kind of sounds that way), but I was thinking more post-game analysis, where the cumulative hits to the skull determines a player's eligibility to play (similar to if a player had a cracked rib or fracture in the spine, etc).
- philwelch 15y agoThe NFL is already perhaps overprotective of quarterbacks, because quarterbacks are bigger superstars than defensive ends and linebackers. Oddly, this is one of the biggest things actual fans complain about.