(11-06-2019 10:50 AM)arkstfan Wrote: (11-05-2019 08:59 PM)Eagles Cliff Wrote: How about we have a rule to prevent flopping AND we repeal all the rules that make it easy for offenses to pass over the middle. Let's bring back the decapitation penalty for going across the middle. I'm sick of watching flag-football offense. Let's also eliminate the QB slide and restrictions on hitting the QB when he has the ball or 2 steps after release.
What "football" is depends heavily on what you grew up watching. The game today is different from the game in the 70's and 80's but that game was significantly different from the 1950's and 60"s (it was a lot whiter then too), and that game wasn't like the 30's and that wasn't like the 20's or the 10's.
Football evolves based on the needs of the game.
Simply basic physics come into play.
The "put a dress on them" football of today is more violent than football was decades ago. Larger players (ie. greater mass) and faster than their sport forebears.
The typical QB today upon being sacked is absorbing more force per hit than a QB from 1979.
The player today has typically had formal coaching for 9 to 12 years vs six in the past. The player today doesn't put the cleats on the week before Labor Day and hang them up after Thanksgiving. Then we added spring camp. Then we took the college schedule from 10 and maybe 11 with a bowl that less than 10% of teams played in to 12 regular season and more teams play a 13th and 14th via a conference title game than used to play 11 games. Most of the schools will play a 13th via a bowl game. Usually two will play 14.
The high school season is longer. The NFL season is longer and the playoffs are bigger and longer.
The player today takes more force per hit and he gets hit more times per year than "the tough guys" of 50 years ago.
On top of that, the college player isn't going home in the summer hanging out with friends, maybe working a summer job, no he's on campus doing "voluntary" workouts.
Spare me the nostalgia, today's game is more violent and the players tougher.
Ok, well that training should led to better, safer techniques.
Plus the equipment they play with today is safer. Don't see any leather helmets or 1 bar face mask either.
The rules to protect specific players like QB's have gotten ridiculous. It's obvious they are protecting the $$MONEY$$ players more than the rest.
Very few teams/players play 14 games. There are a total of 18 teams playing in CCGs. And adding more bowls doesn't add any hits to ones already playing in bowls, just a different set of players getting hit the same amount of time.
Players are stronger and faster. Also more conditioned, which can help to prevent injuries in some cases. Sure, if you took a player from long ago and threw him into the middle of today's game, he'd be at a bigger risk for some injuries today. He'd be safer from other injuries due to rule changes.
As far as flopping goes, it's going to be hard to legislate. The sitting out the next play is big if that's a key player. And running more time off the clock or adding time doesn't always hurt the defense. IF it's that they need a breather or a coach needs a second to think - time clock might not be a big factor.
Maybe you can extend the plays sitting out to 2 or something but at some point, you could be providing an incentive for a player to be intentionally hurt (nut shot under the pile/twist an ankle, etc) by the opposing team. If a few seconds of lying on the field at the end of a play is all that is required that a player have to leave the game/ the quarter or even the rest of that drive. I don't like the road that leds us down.
Especially when a legitimate injury might be covered up to avoid being pulled for that length of time.
It (flopping) slows an offense down, idk how much that "hurts" the game. No question many of these are fake, but 1 real injury that is made worse due a rule change isn't worth trading imop for avoiding whatever harm is caused to the game. Losing a starter for a play can be huge, it's already a risk when these guys do it now.
