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Ah, 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-
by derekp7 15y ago
Ah, 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.