1. The proposed penalty would be for leading with the CROWN (top) of your helmet. Every decent coach teaches every player to “see what you hit”, i.e. keep your head UP, i.e. DON’T lower your head and lead with the crown.

2. Just like with defense, there is (and likely never will be) a rule about how hard you can hit someone. Watch Dashon Goldson smack the crap out of people and rarely get penalized/fined. Lower your body, keep your head up, hit with your chest/shoulders, and you’ll be fine no matter how hard you hit; same will be true for RBs.

3. If you think running upright is laughable, go watch some Jerome Bettis highlights. He ran through people without lowering his head, and his career lasted much longer than most RBs. He was a Pro Bowler at 32.

Now, all you internet tough guys: Go run full speed into a wall with your head lowered so that the crown of your head makes first contact; try it 30 times a week. Then come back and tell us about how you think your favorite team’s RBs is a pansy if he doesn’t do that to his career and life.

More passing leads to more injuries. Most injuries, especially major injuries, happen on passing plays. QBs, linemen, CBs, and WRs are all more likely to get injured- and seriously injured- on passing plays.

If they got rid of most of the rule changes over the past 20 years that favor passing- there would be more balance between running and passing, and fewer injuries.

And the game would more closely resemble what it was meant to be, there would be fewer ticky-tack penalties and jump balls to impact and distort the play on the field with the score of the game. It would become a less QB-centric game, and more of a team game as well.

All of which would be good for the game.

This idea of stopping RBs from lowering their head is NUTS !

The kind of thing you would expect from someone who has never played football beyond high school.

The Pro Cap successfully protected NFL players from concussions, dating back to the 1980s…IT WORKED !

Yet Roger Goodell will not mandate the use of the ProCap technology to protect today’s NFL players..go figure.

Sounds like Roger is more concerned about putting on a show before the concussion lawsuits are litigated, with the hope that the NFL will look like they have changed their ways and actually care about the players health.

When the evidence of the NFL’s past behavior, dating back to the 1920s, is made public, it won’t paint a caring picture and Goodell and the owners know it. All this talk of and changing of rules, is being done with the idea that Goodell can remake the NFL’s image before it is defined by their past behavior, dating back to the 1920s.

How can you lower your shoulder pads, while keeping your head up, without having it ripped off when a LB launches into you?

How this idiotic proposal made it this far is beyond me.

Again:
-mandatory mouthpieces
-mandatory knee pads
-open helmet manufacturing up to co’s without forcing them to pay 3 mil in licensing fees.

If this rule goes through it’s going to be a trainwreck. There enough botched “leading with the head calls” as is.

having a FS flying into you even with his shoulder and the runner is not supposed to crunch down?