NFL rolls out more revisions to the lowering the helmet rule

[cowboys5xsbs]

https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profo...ore-revisions-to-the-lowering-the-helmet-rule

 

[gimmesix]

The ones writing this article are nuts. The league does not need to enforce more arbitrary rules with on-field penalties. Fining the players is the appropriate way to modify the behavior. No one likes losing money. It's just a slow method of modification, which is needed instead of mass penalization. After a few years, if the league wants to begin cracking down on enforcement, it can. But when players have been doing something all their lives, expecting them to suddenly change isn't realistic.

 

[BrassCowboy]

Might as well let the officials play the game.

 

[JayFord]

it was always a dumb rule

you lower your helmet to protect yourself......unless you are using it as a spear (which is VERY visable and easy to see) then they need to get rid of this rule

imagine running through the hole and seeing 2 lb's coming to tackle you and you keep your head up

 

[jrumann59]

Uh a proper form tackle is hard to do without initiating contact with the facemask, head up facemask to the side

 

[TequilaCowboy]

Lowering your helmet to protect yourself and using it as spearing are two different things.....very easily noticeable. Good judgment and common sense is all that is needed. But you can bet it will be a factor in a big moment of a game.

 

[Momanpr100]

All I know is defenses could use a little break with all the penalties against them.

 

[Creeper]

So lowering your head is a foul, and not lowering your head and making contact with your facemask is also a foul? They need to stop this nonsense now.

And by the way, when the first enacted the helmet rule refs called a few idiotic penalties and it was obvious so they backed off. Maybe te rule is just a bad rule.

Why not invent a helmet made of soft padding rather than a hard shell and just let them play.

 

[cowboys5xsbs]

So lowering your head is a foul, and not lowering your head and making contact with your facemask is also a foul? They need to stop this nonsense now.

And by the way, when the first enacted the helmet rule refs called a few idiotic penalties and it was obvious so they backed off. Maybe te rule is just a bad rule.

Why not invent a helmet made of soft padding rather than a hard shell and just let them play.

Have you seen the practice helmets haha

https://encrypted-tbn0.***NOT-ALLOWED***/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRx8JhFPW-vPv7CSswCWoel9hTeHz0rB_Naxg&usqp=CAU

 

[Havic]

Let’s legislate football to the point we just run simulations instead of watching actual players play.

 

[Point-of-the-Star]

I was thinking of the play a few years back where Zeke was called for this (happened on the right sideline) and I had never heard of it at the time in relation to a RB. I literally see the same thing by ball carriers a dozen times a game every game and have never seen it called again since the Zeke call. At least the article gave the stat of being called 4 times in 2022. Getting fined is one thing but in the game there is a loss of yardage.

And as I stated you see in every game multiple times where the runner lowers his head in a collision. Arbitrary officiating is an understatement.

 

[Cowboys5217]

Lowering your helmet to protect yourself and using it as spearing are two different things.....very easily noticeable. Good judgment and common sense is all that is needed. But you can bet it will be a factor in a big moment of a game.

You are more likely to get hurt lowering your head than keeping it up. At least that is what all my coaches used to say.

 

[T-RO]

NFL loves them some confusing rules with tons of grey area. Their officials can call it however desired based on game-by-game agenda.

 

[Creeper]

Have you seen the practice helmets haha

https://encrypted-tbn0.***NOT-ALLOWED***/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRx8JhFPW-vPv7CSswCWoel9hTeHz0rB_Naxg&usqp=CAU

Yes, I have seen them. They need to make them a little more compact, but I like the concept.

 

[diamonddelts]

Have you seen the practice helmets haha

https://encrypted-tbn0.***NOT-ALLOWED***/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRx8JhFPW-vPv7CSswCWoel9hTeHz0rB_Naxg&usqp=CAU

Lego helmets.

 

[DanTanna]

Play the game with no helmets. You won't see players lowering their head. ever.

 

[DallasEast]

You are more likely to get hurt lowering your head than keeping it up. At least that is what all my coaches used to say.

Anatomy and physics. Lowering of the head allows the force of impact to travel through the helmet and skull into the neck. It is a byproduct of most football related cervical spine injuries.

Nature designed verbebrae to maintain space and cushion between them while protecting the internal spinal cord. 'Seeing what you hit' does not eliminate neck and spine injuries but it does help redirect the causal force away from smashing neck verbebrae together. Or worse, breaking verbetrae and severing portions of the spinal cord.

 

[erod]

Is they start enforcing this even more, I'm done.

I'm already halfway there. The real NFL died a long time ago.

 

[calico]

Good news, they’ve found a new way to ruin football.

 

[John813]

Bring back the leather helmets and get rid of the huge rigid shoulder pads.