EJECTION !! The Penalty For 'Targeting' Hits

#26
#26
VolBraniac said:
Grow up.

If someone doesn't step in and do something officially to remove targeting hits to the head, then we are going to have, with no doubt, a player death. DEAD. Right there in front of millions, DEAD. Carting off the corpse.

Kewl, right? :eek:hmy::mf_surrender:
Click to expand...

There is already a rule for head-to-head hits against defenseless players. I'd have no problem with adding ejections under that rule. But to revise the rule to include helmet-to-helmet contact in the course of the natural motion of the tackle is absurd. How in the world can a player avoid that?
 
  • Like
Reactions: 1 person
#27
#27
volfanhill said:
I am fine with the rule and the punishment. I think most reasonable people are. I also think most reasonable people know that the enforcement will be wildy inconsistent. Very similar to how celebration penalties are called/not called depending on the official....or what school the official went to
Click to expand...

So you're okay with not being able to block the QB or punter, but they are still allowed to make tackles?
 
#28
#28
in fact, having looked it up, it seems that the majority of players who died playing football did so as a result of some sort of medical condition (like korey stringer) rather than an injury suffered as a result of playing the game.
 
#29
#29
Proper or correct enforcement of this is - at least initially - going to be difficult and there's going to be a terrible learning curve with it. (I'm not sure this is the best way to go about it either, since some of these calls could well be spur of the moment)


However I do agree that if you want to lessen intentional helmet to helmet / headhunting / targeting, the way you do it is by taking away playing time (or if money was involved, fines, though it's not here). Take them off the field, they'll more and more start aiming for the body rather than aiming for the head.


However I think a better or more appropriate way to do it might be the NFL's model of games reviewed the next day and punishments handed out accordingly...however the problem there is, in a given week, there are too many games in a given week across all levels of football to properly review them all.

You could leave it up to the conferences...but I don't think they want to be put in a position of having to hand out game or half bans...especially for popular players or a key players on teams doing well (and let's be honest, they're kind of coming in from a biased position as they probably want their teams to do well since this all factors into the revenue they make themselves at the end of the year)
 
#30
#30
FBtime said:
An inconsistently called celebration penalty results in a 15 yard penalty after a TD. THIS improperly called penalty could result in an ejection. Huge difference.
Click to expand...

I think his point was, like celebration penalties, the enforcement of targeting calls will vary.

The Clowney tackle happened in a split second, and the Michigan RB lowered his pad level in an attempt to brace himself....I wouldn't consider him to be defenseless.
 
  • Like
Reactions: 3 people
#33
#33
bamawriter said:
There is already a rule for head-to-head hits against defenseless players. I'd have no problem with adding ejections under that rule. But to revise the rule to include helmet-to-helmet contact in the course of the natural motion of the tackle is absurd. How in the world can a player avoid that?
Click to expand...

That also might be better
 
#34
#34
Lawrence Wright said:
I think his point was, like celebration penalties, the enforcement of targeting calls will vary.

The Clowney tackle happened in a split second, and the Michigan RB lowered his pad level in an attempt to brace himself....I wouldn't consider him to be defenseless.
Click to expand...

You got it
 
  • Like
Reactions: 1 person
#35
#35
They are destroying the game.

Half of the game is won when the receiver is afraid to go over the middle. This is terrible news. This is football.
 
#36
#36
This is an extremely ignorant way of going about. Just think how many controversial calls have cost games under the current rules and now they're going to add an ejection?!?!?. Any "discretion" call is bogus and is going to cause problems when 3/4 of the people who will be out there have no idea how to insert common sense and will take helment to helment literally. This disgusts me
 
#43
#43
I don't like the rule. If they're concerned so much about player safety, they should outlaw and severely penalize the type of dirty play done by that Vanderbilt player 2 years ago in Arkansas then again in Neyland, on Couch I believe. The SOB went for the knees and when the play was practically over and essentially attacked from behind the player if I recall right. Clowney's hit was head on and immediately after the hand off. Given his height, what else could he have done? Stepped aside and asked the RB to blow him a kiss as he heads down field?
 
  • Like
Reactions: 3 people
#45
#45
Dump the idiotic penalties like the one they gave CP for high stepping into the endzone and calling it taunting or celebrating -- those are what take away from the game -- none of those garbage penalties happens in any other sport
 
  • Like
Reactions: 1 person
#46
#46
508mikey said:
Dump the idiotic penalties like the one they gave CP for high stepping into the endzone and calling it taunting or celebrating -- those are what take away from the game -- none of those garbage penalties happens in any other sport
Click to expand...

Tell all the coaches that. They're the ones who wanted that penalty and pushed for the NCAA to pass it.
 
#47
#47
99gator said:
there isn't a team in the 70's that wouldn't have half of their roster thrown out for the entire season.

tatum would have been suspended just attempting to put his uniform on.
Click to expand...



In the 70's, the best athlete on the field was 5'10" and 175 pounds and ran a 4.8. Today, guys 6'4" and 260 run 4.4's and run right you looking to pancake you.
 
#50
#50
I wonder if those same ACC officials would feel the same way if a Michigan player had laid the same caliber hit on a South Carolina player, instead of Clowney enforcing the tackle?
I doubt it.
 
New posts
You must log in or register to reply here.

VN Store



Back
Top