Again — they deleted my post so I decided I wasn’t going to play their game and re-type the whole damn thing. No conspiracy theory about you but if you had spent a little more time reading then you’d realize that. Go back and read and you’ll see that other than having your name in that last post, it had NOTHING to do with you but the fact that they deleted my reply to you and that I wasn’t going to play their game (Just as I hate the fact that I created a response on another message that disappeared and I’m not going to redo, as well).

The Coverage unit gets a 5 second head start before the kicker kicks the ball?

just saying…..

Onside Kicks are gonna go way up if someone is smart and wearing a headset.

You’re not the only one who cares about player safety. And I don’t just care about the guys on my team. I frequently scream bloody murder at our Ryan Clark because he’s inclined to lead with the helmet (much more than James). I’m as worried about them getting hurt spearing as anyone getting hurt from being speared. But since no one can seem to decide how it should be done, apparently everyone needs some re-education from Pop Warner up to ensure player safety. I just want the league to act with consistency–something unheard of under the Goodell regime.

Ok, guys, here’s the thing: I ain’t playing your game.

Will you stop calling me a blood-luster??? If you ever met me, you fall over laughing. I’m not exactly the picture of a woman you’d find at a WWE match. Come on. Just because we like hard-hitting defense does not mean we want to see players injured. And I do not believe the NFL and that jackass Goodell were targeting the Steelers last season. Harrison, who happens to be an intelligent man, by the way, drew some negative attention to himself from the refs and league office because of his outspokenness. That happens when you stand up for what you believe in, right or wrong.

I think players should be flagged for spearing with their helmets and frequently scream at the TV when they do it. I think egregious offenders should be ejected–as the rules have stated for three years. But Harrison was flagged when he didn’t lead with his head. Everybody needs to agree what it looks like when a player leads with his head.

Get over yourself, edge. You’re not the only one who cares about player safety.

Most of the games I watched, the ball was routinely handled between the goal line and the 5 yard line on

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16% of the kickoffs result in touch backs and it was much higher than that until they moved the spot back 5 yards. Putting it at the 35 will probably result in 25% or more of them being touch backs.

I’m sorry but I don’t appreciate 0-0 games. Yeah, they’ve done more for the offense but again, while you may not believe it, the NFL NEEDS offense. The XFL was stupid enough to listen to the old players who bitched about getting rid of the bump and run and they made it part of the game and it was the most BORING football EVER. They may have jazzed it up with their loud mouth announcers and bull crap but the actual game was a snore (The ended up eliminating the bump and run but by then it was too late). I’ll take what we’ve got now because it does allow for shutouts and low scoring games. It may not be up to the 100% of the game standards that you might want but it’s enough for most people.

Here’s a novel thought for the bloodlusters in the crowd: if you lessen the number of concessions that players get, it means that they play more of the game and you get more bang for your buck. I wonder if you guys would be so blood thirsty if that were your kid being taken off the field and having to spend the rest of his life in a wheel chair. I agree with those that want to get rid of this crap AND want to start it at the very bottom and work its way up. Start firing coaches who teach this crap and you’ll see it disappear from the game. You can say that we might as well put skirts on the players but that’s bull because you can still hit a guy hard without using your head and maybe, just maybe, it’ll get all the lazy coaches out of the game and replace them with guys that will teach their players the proper techniques for tackling. Correct me if I’m wrong but it seems that wrapping a guy up works a lot better than anything else.

-Colts special teams has sucked lately with kickoffs

-Adam Vinitratior has a weak leg with kickoffs and rarely has a touchback.

I guess everyone will pretend he didn’t change the rules again to benefit his team.

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Hey McCourty Island…. I know that Pats fans like to live in the past but lets try to catch up with three years ago.

Vinatieri doesn’t do kickoffs the punter McAfee does and he has one of the strongest kickoffs in the league.

There are plenty of reasons to hate on Bill Polian you don’t need to make some up.

It’s hard to kick off the ball from the 35 yard line with the players striking……im just sayin
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Well say something else! I don’t give a rats a$$ about the lockout. (Call it what it is. Some idiot called it a strike above.) They will get it taken care of by the regular season and that is all that matters. Lets just do what we do every off-season. Focus on the draft and pretend bball is a real sport. Honestly I would rather speculate about Favre tongue punching Steger’s fart box than the LOCK-OUT.

Call me crazy but this may create more onside kicks. There many different types of onside attempts a kicker uses, if one could master a high chip-shot that travels around 10-15 yards, the risk is worth the reward. Teams with great defenses may feel this is a gamble worth making.

I wasn’t talking about the wedge but about the move to the 35-yard line, and taking Gregg’s word that they didn’t have the data–or did you miss this sentence in his article:

“We find the rule change a little odd because it came out of nowhere and the league didn’t present a lot of evidence that it will help player safety.”

And I didn’t say anything about launching with the helmet, edge. That is already illegal. I’m talking about fining players for hits that are not illegal or fining them after the fact. Maybe you need a lesson in common sense because that fining hullabaloo didn’t decrease the number of head injuries one iota last year nor did it lessen the severity of any head injuries. I don’t disagree that something needs to be done to minimize the risk of Rutgers-type injuries. I’m just saying they’ve been proceeding like BOOBS.

Quit messing with me, edge. Not in the mood today.

This rule seems to lean towards the future elimination of a big part of the game. I can see no more kick offs at all to come – after a score, opposing team just starts at the 20. Next to come, fair catch punt returns only. Bye-bye return game.

“Since the ball would most likely go out the back of the end zone the only way YOUR plan works is if they make the end zones 20 or 25 yards deep and that’s not going to happen (Especially, when you consider the fact that they barely have enough room in most stadiums for an extra 5 yards).”

@edgy

Most of the games I watched, the ball was routinely handled between the goal line and the 5 yard line on KOs. Moving the ball 5 yards closer to the goal line figures to the ball being handled somewhere between 5 yards into the end zone and the end line.

The NFL has made changes to benefit the offense. So even if the ball leaves the end zone on KOs, placing the ball at the 15 yard line would give some benefit to the defense………….for a change.

vinatieri doesn’t even kick off for the colts. thanks for your brilliant input.

Akers will retire as an Eagle

improve safety–when in fact they have no data to show safety will be improved at all by the measures they’re taking. Here’s a crazy idea: Why don’t they study measures that might actually improve safety instead of resorting to all this pointless posturing?

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You’re totally wrong. In the first place, they did have data that showed that the rule change they made concerning the wedge DID reduce injuries. In the second place, do you honestly think that you need a study to show that by NOT leading with your head that you reduce injuries? Common sense tells you that and if you need a study to tell you what common sense should then it wouldn’t matter how many studies you did. The number of guys that you saw getting up and shaking off the cob webs after these kind of hits should have tipped you off. The number of defenders that went down and didn’t get back up after one of these hits took them AND the offensive guy out, should have tipped you off. No need for a study. Do you think that if that kid from Rutgers wouldn’t have been leading with his head that he wouldn’t have been paralyzed?