Your Opinion On Sunday With The New Emphasis On Hits (1 Viewer)

[Joe Bryant]

Lots of sky is falling talk last week especially from some of the ESPN former player / analysts like Golic and Stink saying the NFL was killing the game with the new emphasis on enforcing the no head to head hits and such.

After a Sunday of games, what was your thought?

J

 

[hook014]

I voted good, thought it was a little better.

Reason is, we didn't have to see guys getting carted off the field w/ potential life altering injuries. Any way you look at it that's a positive. I admit, I love to see a big hit, but the price is awful high and nobody wants to think about that.

It was interesting to watch players pull up at the last second instead of delivering the big hit. But I think it's just a period of adjustment and we're gonna see big shots to the ribcage from here on out. Also more "wrap em up" tackling which imo is better technique. How many times have we seen a guy try to deliver a devestating hit only to slightly miss and the ball carrier bounce off for a big gain? Those won't happen as frequently from now on.

Players will be coached to do it a little differently that's all. And yes there will be more offense if the stars in the league are on the field instead of in a hospital.

Thought Costas made a good point at halftime of the Sunday night game. Something that's been rattling around in my head since this thing started. The legal liability of the league to let this continue, knowing what they know about the damage, and not addressing it. You look at the league office, front office of teams, and agents of any major sports league and you see law degrees littered all over the place. Everyone knows about the elephant in the room and that the clock is ticking.

Goodell and co. will probably save the owners hundreds of millions with this policy and that's a major motivator.

Probably be a good time to be in the flak jacket business.

 

[delusional]

I seen some players pulling up then putting their hands up like "whoa didnt touch him" type things.

Also seen some of the same hits I seen before. Celek got hit the same way DJax did this week. Johnson took a shot from ernie sims on the side line also. Normally they wouldnt be a big deal but wouldnt be surprised to see a fine now

 

[Alex P Keaton]

Didn't even notice a difference. But if this helps encourage coaches & players to emphasize proper tackling technique, I'm all for it. IMO that (poor technique) combined with ESPN-highlight mentality is the reason we see so many huge hits leading to injury.

 

[Keith R]

I voted no difference. Not because I didn't notice a change, but because the change didn't affect my viewing enjoyment in a positive or negative way.

It was clear that several WRs had monster days to the point of it being a statistical anomaly. Oddly, it was specific WRs on a team who did instead of all WRs for given teams, and mostly split ends at that instead of the flankers, who one would think would be most benifitted by the rule enforcement.

 

[GregR_2]

I voted no difference. Not because I didn't notice a change, but because the change didn't affect my viewing enjoyment in a positive or negative way.

It was clear that several WRs had monster days to the point of it being a statistical anomaly. Oddly, it was specific WRs on a team who did instead of all WRs for given teams, and mostly split ends at that instead of the flankers, who one would think would be most benifitted by the rule enforcement.

This week's WR fantasy scoring was very similar to week 3 when there wasn't the emphasis against head hunting. In a .5 PPR league here are how many WRs broke given fantasy point thresholds:



Week 7 Week 340+ FP: 1 030+ FP: 3 325+ FP: 5 620+ FP: 12 1115+ FP: 18 1710+ FP: 27 34I think the most I'd feel justified to say is that it bears watching in future weeks to see if this is just an occasional outlier like we had week 3, or whether it's the start of a trend.

 

[Keith R]

I voted no difference. Not because I didn't notice a change, but because the change didn't affect my viewing enjoyment in a positive or negative way.

It was clear that several WRs had monster days to the point of it being a statistical anomaly. Oddly, it was specific WRs on a team who did instead of all WRs for given teams, and mostly split ends at that instead of the flankers, who one would think would be most benifitted by the rule enforcement.

This week's WR fantasy scoring was very similar to week 3 when there wasn't the emphasis against head hunting. In a .5 PPR league here are how many players broken given fantasy point thresholds:



Week 7 Week 340+ FP: 1 030+ FP: 3 325+ FP: 5 620+ FP: 12 1115+ FP: 18 1710+ FP: 27 34I think the most I'd feel justified to say is that it bears watching in future weeks to see if this is just an occasional outlier like we had week 3, or whether it's the start of a trend.

Hmmm. I wouldn't have thought that, thanks for pointing that out. Maybe my head was still swimming by the fact that one of the Week 7 studs was Lee Freaking Evans.

 

[road warrior]

Someone should have informed the Bronco's it was ok to tackle.

 

[Eminence]

Are head-to-head hits still allowed in college?