Missing your block initially and then turning around and desperately launching into a players knees is not:
A cut block
What the Texans do
Legal outside the tackle box

Finally, hitting anyone in the side or back of the knees, when they cannot see you and defend themselves, begs for a rule change no matter what you call it.

(from a pats fan who until moving to NC 13 months ago lived on North Street in Foxboro)
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If one has a chronic knee problem after football, they can get a knee replacement. If their brain has turned to mush from too many concussions……

– I know North Street in Foxboro very well. I’m from Oak St. Small world

Zone blocking schemes are all the rave. Majority of teams that do them have chop blocks within the package. It happens and for this outcry for it to quit it crazy! People are trying to baby GROWN A** MEN. Different types of plays have different risks.. Yes a chop block is dangerous, but these ticky tack fouls calls or this crap about making any play or penalty reviewable just shows your own ignorace! The game wouldnt even resemble what it is today and would be so boring!

Footballs IS NOT a contact sport!.!.! IT IS A COLLISION SPORT!!!

A part of football is watching man vs man. Or Beast vs Beast. We root for the little guy but why? bc its rare they win.. This is the only team sport in the world where everyone has a duty and is involved in everyplay and that not everyone is qualified to play..

What many of you forget is that a major part of footballs appeal is the RISK OF INJURY! Not saying people root for it, but realistically the hard hits. The leaping grabs.. The Finishing of runs.. The swiping of balls out of the QB’s hand while in motion.. the full speed hits! Thats when AMAZING football moments happen. So dont find yourself being a hyprocrite and cheering the exact plays you want to be called into question.

* The hit did seems a bit away from the play and uncalled for but perhaps he committed to the hit just before the running was stopped. I played college football and I realize the dangers and so do many of my friends in the NFL! Thats a risk weve all taken as athletes and especially in football!

” FOr as much as a ihate NE and Tom Brady, the league is better when he is playing”

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Of course you would. But you forget , injuries are part of the game . For every star player that goes down with injury, there is someone else just as hungry waiting in the wings also ready for their turn to be a star. It’s the way its always been. If it weren’t for injury to Drew Bledsoe ( a star QB at the time) then Tom Brady might not have gotten his shot at stardom.

How many guys do they pay to watch tape to look for fines. Or does Merton hanks and his extra long neck have the ability to catch everything

I love a wide open game more than a defensive struggle but the rules of the game are getting out of control.

The NFL is a fraud on so many levels and it goes back further than Goodell. Protect players my ass, then stop selling videos with big hits…

FOr as much as a ihate NE and Tom Brady, the league is better when he is playing, but the same is true for JErome Harrison and D players too

Seems like the evidence is piling up among the legion of retired NFL guys who are suffering from early onset Alzheimer’s disease or other early onset dementias due multiple concussions over the course of their careers. Head injuries deprive the guys we love to watch on Thursdays, Sundays, and Mondays, deprive them and their families of the reasonable quality of life and relationship we all hope for in retirement.

Knees are more easily repaired and quality of life more adequately medically/surgically restored.

(from a pats fan who until moving to NC 13 months ago lived on North Street in Foxboro)

And for those saying the Texans do this all the time – at least they cut block straight ahead and not from behind as this clearly was.

you forgot to mention that 7th Ring as a thing youre “still waiting for”.

I wonder if Sean Payton, sorry Rex Ryan had anything to do with these injuries??

I think they’ve gone too far on head injuries and not enough on lower leg injuries that are the real problem when it comes to stars missing games.