Our game is being destroyed in front of our very eyes. One thing that makes the NFL great is that every hit doesn’t get reviewed for targeting and players don’t get ejected for cheap split second crap.
Not sure what we as fans have to do to keep this change from happening, but I will gladly sign and petiton and vote on any poll to keep this rule change away from this game.
Completely agree on that, it’s one thing to give a guy a penalty. But the ejections are nuts. I’ve seen a few in college that have been terrible calls. Shit Jameson Williams got ejected last year for a hit as a gunner. Impacted the entire game not having him.
If it’s reviewable, and for example a call on the field was bullshit, then it can be reversed. Or if a player had a clear, dirty attempt, which we’ve seen in the past, then of course they should be ejected.
I don’t get the problem here. Those seem like good things.
If the Lions, say, got called for a late hit on Aaron Rodgers that didn’t actually happen … in that TOTALLY UNLIKELY SCENARIO, wouldn’t you love to say, “THAT’S BULLSHIT!” and have it reversed?
In general I agree
I think the concern is a trend towards the college targeting rule
Example which we have seen is a defender CB leading with shoulder but the WR lowers his head and causes a head to head contact
In college the DB gets ejected
It’s up to the DB to avoid that contact
But the game is so fast that can’t be done
If it’s intentional I can see the ejection but that’s not how college is treating it
Yep, accidental head contact is leading to players getting tossed. Nuts. Sometimes the offensive player drops his head to initiate the contact even, what can the defender do!? Move out of the way!?