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There is still consideration for a ban on the three-point stance

Why?

What’s a three point stance?

Where do I start? Football helmets are designed to protect players’ heads. It would only be a matter of time before players learned how to use a helmet as a weapon.

Concussions at the line of scrimmage: Either improve the helmet or ban football. The line of scrimmage has to have violent collision or the linemen wouldn’t be trying hard enough.

I’ve noticed the expansion of rules protecting players from injury. The only reason we needed these rules are that players and coaches figured out how to injure players and felt fine using these strategies.

If football participants focus on injuring each other as a strategy, there will be so many rules that there will be flags every other play and football will go the way of boxing. Face it, the human body was never built to take the kind of punishment that 360 lb behemoths inflict on each other. Then, when you train these people to attack parts of the body that are vulnerable to injury with a hard weapon like a helmet, it becomes more like warfare than football.

I’ve always been a huge fan of pro football, but I see now that it has evolved into the type of activity that resembles “Rollerball”. It’s sad that we as people couldn’t contain ourselves.

I honestly like the roster exemptions. honestly this is the only thing that makes sense.

I don’t like the idea of banning the 3 point stance. I don’t even think it would reduce lineman concussions significantly.

on the helmet to helmet with running backs, I understand the idea but its hard to not do it when a RB is running at you using his head almost like a battering ram. many running backs lower their head and get low (lower center of gravity). the thing is, if they put themself in the position to do that, then they make themselves liable for helmet to helmet collisions.

Also, I do not feel that we should limit practices. I do NOT want to see the league practice in summer camp like crennel does. at least the league probably won’t make craft time mandatory.

the point is, if players practice light, then they won’t be used to playing hard in game situations when the regular season starts. I understand the idea of not wanting to hurt players, but if a team practices light like they are suggesting, it is likely that teams will come out sluggish and not at game speed. It would just diminish the quality of football played.

Pads and Helmets should be banned in my opinion. Other than maybe foam shoulder pads worn under a jersey. Pads make a person MORE likely to engage in risky behavior. I play rugby for the Cleveland Rovers, we wear zero pads. When we work on tackling drills we work on form. We don’t go for the most brutal hit possible, but the best way to bring the ball carrier to the ground. We still hit hard, we still try and punch the ball out or strip it, and we still make the tackle. And guess what, our rate of injury is alot lower than football players.

If people use the helmet as a weapon, they are more likely to get hurt themselves. See what you hit.

Eliminating the three point stance is stupid.

Rufio, that’s exactly how I was taught. A good tackle usually involves putting your facemask ( not the the top of your head) right on the football, if possible. This has all sorts of good side effects, like more forced fumbles.

I like the roster exemption rules, but I don’t like the idea of banning a three point stance. That would eliminate interior defense as well as a running game. We might as well play 7 on 7.

Is this one of those games where you get everyone laughing uninhibitedly hysterically, and then if you can´t stop totally seriously completely all of a sudden, based on just one person´s whim, your life would irreconcilably altered for the worse?

Yeah um excuse me if I don’t feel sorry for professional athletes who get injured. Yeah I don’t want anyone to get several concussions and such but this is rediculus. NFL players nowadays are making obscene amounts of money, the kind of money that no labor is actually worth. The reason they are payed so much is because they are putting their body on the line in a violent game.

Lets face it, football is a war game, its violent, strategic, and dangerous. Trying to slow the pace and decrease the violence of the game might as well reach in its chest and tear out its heart. Players who make more money in a year than I’ll make in a lifetime can handle some injury risk.

Furthermore, what the nfl doesn’t need right now is any more reason for the officials to get involved in the game. The officials already are throwing flags for ticky tac calls on the quarterback’s knees and such (thanks tom brady, we cant have the white smile multimillion dollar face of the nfl get injured now can we). The very point of the pass rush is to hit the quarterback and wear him down, or even knock him out of the game, so long as the hits are clean. The league is becoming more and more an offensive game centered around quarterback play because the defense has been more and more constrained by needless rules.

Do we really want the gridiron to end up like basketball, where the referees have so much command of the action and what is and what isn’t a foul can vary from game to game or minute to minute?

If the nfl outlaws the three point stance why not just get rid of the interior lines altogether and play 7on7?

The NFL shouldn’t be looking for ways to prevent concussions by making the sport less violent, the NFL should be doing what it should have been doing all along: Providing a decent pension and benefits to the retired players who played in the time when football players didn’t make absurd amounts of money. It is those old retired players who need the NFL to look in on them, because they didn’t have the benefit of fantastic wealth and cutting edge medical staffs to protect their wellbeing.

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