It’s one of the hot topics of the week.
And so we are compelled to chime in.
PFTV looks at the question of whether quarterbacks really should be wearing dresses or slacks.
PFTV looks at quarterback safety
Posted by Gregg Rosenthal on October 8, 2009, 5:54 PM EST
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Mr. Bundchen has to go high fashion… or Japanese schoolgirl.
i’m sure Cowgirl nation will love that little dig at Flo.
i’m also sure NBC can’t be happy about that CBS logo on the monitor above your left shoulder that draws attention every 20 seconds.
Crickets………
Except for Florio who picked skins to win super bowl..hahaha, how does NBC allow you to blog still.
Why arent they paying attention to what is going around with them?
I dont know why the hell they need these rules more now than they did 5 or 10 years ago.
How was a season with out Tom Brady less interesting? It gave Matt Cassell a chance to shine and it made for some closer games. What is interesting about blowing out a team by 20 points?
A good team should be as deep at Qb as any other position.
The diving at the legs rule is obscene.
Too many “rules” to protect the QB’s.
Isn’t that what the O-lines are for?
One last question Florio, before I call Airmen Suggs and Lewis…
…If you ordered that Brady wasn’t to be touched, and your orders are always followed, then why was Brady in danger? Why would it be necessary to transfer him off the base?
Yata, yata, yata…nothing but hot air coming out of Florio. He’s an NFL butt kisser since PFT got taken up by NBC. Florio go back to the court room, if you really are a lawyer. “Tom Brady is my friend,” said Florio. Players aren’t that valuable TEAMS are. If a team can’t get depth via the draft like the Pats do tough. PAts went on an were the darlings with MAtt @ QB last year. Take off the skirt Florio!
Every QB better be wearing slacks under their skirt.
Let the Rules be your skirt, but if the skirt doesn’t work; be a man and show off your slacks.
Don’t bitch to Refs when they don’t make a non-call, I wish that guy had reached for the flag and then thrown a full-fledged bird at Tom Brady for trying to get that call.
The Ngata foul was even worse though: since when does bringing an arm down on a shoulder pad/helmet hurt QBs?
is Joe Bra-cah-toh balding? did he forget his just-for-men this week?
Florio your shiny plastic helmet looks like it was styled with roofing tar.
Pussies, all of em
Well, this question is actually has two parts. The intent and it’s execution. Two different situations. Florio is with the great minds that have decided that quarterbacks need more protection. Fine then give them more protection. But when these rules are implemented the call is subjective. There too many inconsistencies with how the rules are applied.
GO STEELERS!
“another season without Tom Brady just not that interesting. ”
do you media guys never get tired of slobbering on Golden Boys knob?
Tripping has been against the rules for a long, long time, and it never results in a loss of down or even stalls a drive. Flozzelle tripped a defender to PROTECT THE QUARTERBACK, not to intentionally hurt the defender. First and 20 is better than Second and 17.
But the protection of the QB didn’t start with these roughing the QB rules, but with blocking rules that allow linemen to extend their arms and grab when “blocking”. But QB’s still got hurt. Then the roughing rules came in, one at a time, and yet QB’s still got hurt. QB’s get hurt, and if the league doesn’t want them to get hurt by 300 lb linemen, then make a rule that a QB has to be 300 lbs, or a lineman has to be 210. It’s silly to think it’s avoidable in a contact sport that people won’t get hurt.
Is the league less interesting without Pennington and Stafford? Both were hurt even though rules are out there to protect the QB.
Without injured “marquee players” the league would never have had the Kurt Warner story to dust off every year. Matt Shaub, and Cassel would still be making backup money.
Are you kidding me Florio!!!!!
You are as soft as the quarterbacks. You said the game “needs” quarterbacks to succeed.
How exactly did the game get here without these rules? Quarterbacks used to be strong like Blanda, Starr, Unitas….Favre. If your new weak NBC bosses let this fly, I think most people would agree that you are wrong, and don’t know shit.
Florio, as an attorney, you know rules must be applied consistently. I have no love for the Ravens, and as I’ve posted before, am sick of Ray Lewis’s “I am man, hear me roar” speeches. But 15 yards for tapping Brady on the helmet and nothing for nearly sawing Flacco in half??
I don’t believe in conspiracy theories about the NFL playing favorites. I just believe the refs take more notice of marquee names–especially when they’re coming off major injuries. If the NFL is going this route, they have to vigorously train refs to make consistent calls no matter who is under center.
Incidentally, it was an injury to the starting QBs that kick-started the careers of both Brady and our Big Ben. No one wants to see an injury. But it IS a contact sport.
Why shouldn’t a QB try for a call? Wide receivers do it all day long on Sunday. We don’t yell at them for pleading for a flag. Linemen do it as well, trying to blame movement on each other. We think of that as normal. But quarterbacks shouldn’t try for a flag?
I think the level of protection is silly. They throw the flag way too easily. In the game Pats vs. Ravens, two flags were thrown that shouldn’t, one on each side (and the Pats player was fined, probably because he didn’t complain about the refs after the game.)
The problem I have is people complaining that Brady is protected more than other QBs. I have seen several media pieces about it. Those refs called the whole game tight, and threw flags on both sides. Yet in media pieces, the flag that was thrown against the Pats is NEVER mentioned! Why? Because it destroys the case!
The problem is there is too much inconsistency among the refs, and the lack of ref knowledge about the intricate rules of the NFL. HIRE FULL TIME REFS! Why does this league still have part time referees? Does not this sport deserve full time officials? Professionals who make it their full time business to get the calls right?
referees = moneyline/covering the spread
QB’s these days = melodrama divas
posts like this one = WHATEVER!
@ stanjam …
All this time I’ve been talking about the need for better training of refs and never even thought about that. OF COURSE THE NFL NEEDS FULL-TIME REFS!!! Good grief. No wonder their calls are inconsistent and they so often seem confused about the rules. They need full-time refs and each game needs a well-trained replay official reviewing plays like they have in college ball–not this under-the-hood crap that takes forever and sometimes still results in incorrect calls. I think the officials do their best, but there’s too much inconsistency and it undermines the integrity of the game.
Florio, how about taking up this issue and writing a few posts on the need for more professional handling of officiating in professional football?
You know its fine that they protect the QB and all but the problem that I have is that they don’t do it consistent with all the QBs. Don’t believe me? watch the game again and you would see a play where Flacco gets blasted after he clearly got rid of the ball yet Brady gets a call for someone that was pushed towards his knee area.
The other thing is that we have seen great QBs from the past. I am talking Elway, Marino, Montana…list could go on. But these QBs played a long time with hardly missing a game. Favre played in that era before the rule change and he has the longest streak with out missing a game.
That’s it, Florio, I’m nominating you for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Afterall, you’ve accomplished more than Barass Obama.
@mnmaverick …
This is a FOOTBALL site. It’s bad enough that this stuff has seeped in because of the Limbaugh discussion. For heaven’s sake, leave it there.