re: New helmet technology starting to be used this year

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The problem is that the only way to reduce head injuries is to have a protective shell covering the brain inside the skull. Head injuries happen when the skull comes to a sudden stop but the brain continues to move forward and hits the skull. That's going to continue to happen as long as there's tackling and collisions happening in football. They need a way to keep the brain stationary inside the skull at all times for football players to be safe and that is virtually impossible. I really don't know what football can do to make the game safer.

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This is correct.

One way to reduce the force with which the brain hits the inside of the skull is to reduce the force of one player's body on the other. If you take away the extra leverage created by cleats pushing off a grass or fieldturf surface, you could slow down players and lower collision impact. Possibly some type of flat shoe with a spongy surface of some sort? Just spit balling here.