I have the honor to be Your Obedient Servant - B.Aud
We all live in stories... It seems to me that a definition of any living vibrant society is that you constantly question those stories... The argument itself is freedom. It's not that you come to a conclusion about it. Through that argument you change your mind sometimes... That's how societies grow. When you can't retell for yourself the stories of your life then you live in a prison... Somebody else controls the story. - S. Rushdie
One things for sure the Kyle Shanahan coaching tree does not give a fuck about qb health or safety eh. It's part of the game plan.
Lardsin must go!
Isn't it interesting how quickly the social media mob has switched from "the NFL doesn't care about protecting players!" after the Tua injury(s) to "they need to put skirts on the QBs!" after all the controversial roughing the passer calls this past weekend???
We gotta have our cake and eat it too NFL...
Well yeah, but I think the outcry has been justified in both scenarios. People weren't crying about the hit(s) on Tua or the lack of a penalty. They were critical of the handling of it after the fact when he was obviously injured. Now they're being critical of referees throwing RIDICULOUS penalties. Like literally defenders have to think twice about tackling a quarterback now. Which brings me to my next point:
Were the flags the past couple of weeks a reaction by the NFL telling referees to protect quarterbacks more? The timing is a little weird to me as you mention. If so, that is terrible, terrible scapegoating/blame deflection/conflict resolution by the NFL...
There have always been questionable roughing the passer calls since the rules changed. I'm not sure what the defense is supposed to do if you can't:
land on the QB even though the ball is in one of your hands
spin them down to the ground while you are chasing a very mobile QB
hit them too high
hit them too low
brush the side of their helmet as you attempt to knock down a pass
Maybe they should teach QBs to get rid of the ball sooner.
It's OK to not be OK.
Have you ever known the NFL (at least in the last 10 years) to not overreact when there's a PR risk/opportunity? I'd put the likelihood at about 99.6% that there was a memo/directive sent to league officials before last week's games to be more loose with roughing the pass calls when the QB gets slung to the ground.
Watson is hurt? crap
NDSU TO FBS. HAVEN'T WE WON ENOUGH?