packerbacker1234
03-20-2010, 08:35 AM
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/columns/story?columnist=clayton_john&id=5005206
From what I am gathering from this, the rule is that a WR that goes over the middle is to make a catch cannot be laid out unless he has two hands on the ball with two feet on the ground. In short, your not allowed to hit the WR until he makes the catch completely. No contact to the head is allowed.
First off, I thought contact to the head already wasn't allowed, and it was only let go if it was completely insidental. Ray Lewis in the playoffs last year had a penalty called when he layed a guy out without this purposed rule change.
In short, they are making the passing game more potent to prevent "concussions" by bassically giving WR's free catches over the middle. Now I am trying to look at this objectively but I don't even know how to. What is the point of playing defense anymore? They are taking every possible way to make a big hit out of the game. I get defending the WR but have they really been getting that many concussions? Donald Driver has been making the catch over the middle and getting layed out for years and I only recall one time he ever had to leave the game... and it wasn't even on a slant. To me it sounds like an rule change that is overstepping the line to fix a problem that doesn't exist.
The idea of the big hit is to break up the pass, and now your saying that defenders are just suppose to allow WR's to make the catch first because hey, were not allowed to touch them? They already made sacking the QB a questionable ideal for defenders, and now they are going to make it even HARDER to cover WR's? To break up passes?
Man, is this even football anymore? Why don't we take off the pads and make it flag football folks? Injuries are a part of the game, and it seems that lately they are making defense a joke.
From what I am gathering from this, the rule is that a WR that goes over the middle is to make a catch cannot be laid out unless he has two hands on the ball with two feet on the ground. In short, your not allowed to hit the WR until he makes the catch completely. No contact to the head is allowed.
First off, I thought contact to the head already wasn't allowed, and it was only let go if it was completely insidental. Ray Lewis in the playoffs last year had a penalty called when he layed a guy out without this purposed rule change.
In short, they are making the passing game more potent to prevent "concussions" by bassically giving WR's free catches over the middle. Now I am trying to look at this objectively but I don't even know how to. What is the point of playing defense anymore? They are taking every possible way to make a big hit out of the game. I get defending the WR but have they really been getting that many concussions? Donald Driver has been making the catch over the middle and getting layed out for years and I only recall one time he ever had to leave the game... and it wasn't even on a slant. To me it sounds like an rule change that is overstepping the line to fix a problem that doesn't exist.
The idea of the big hit is to break up the pass, and now your saying that defenders are just suppose to allow WR's to make the catch first because hey, were not allowed to touch them? They already made sacking the QB a questionable ideal for defenders, and now they are going to make it even HARDER to cover WR's? To break up passes?
Man, is this even football anymore? Why don't we take off the pads and make it flag football folks? Injuries are a part of the game, and it seems that lately they are making defense a joke.