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You may not like it, but the new rules are designed to try to save the game (litigation risk, injury risk, parents reluctance to put their kids into football, etc). I'm not saying I'm the biggest fan, but I understand it.

Two hand touch would eliminate this completely. I understand that too.

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Posted by sml71

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Posted on 8/20/18 at 6:57 pm to GOON

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You may not like it, but the new rules are designed to try to save the game...

It's designed to save the league a bunch of legal headaches.

Frankly, I say let them all sign waivers and just play football. I personally don't care about the safety of the players at this level. They know it's a violent sport going into it, and they get rewarded handsomely for the risks that they take.

Meanwhile, we now have players getting ejected for just playing football. They're killing the sport.

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Posted by VOR

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Posted on 8/20/18 at 7:01 pm to Tigersaint09

I heard during a recent game some commentator say that the preseason was sort of a trial run for some calls

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Posted by LooseCannon22282

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Posted on 8/20/18 at 9:30 pm to Midget Death Squad

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Now tell me, do you not see disaster with this?

if the National Anthem can all of a sudden turn into a disaster for the NFL a lot of things are possible.

i don't imagine i'll bet on any games this year. Even though Mississippi has set up a sporting book at its casinos now, i'm going to take the contrarian approach.

i'm walking away from betting.

the NFL is too inconsistent with the way they call fouls as it is. This new rule will no doubt add onto their trends.

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Posted by ForeverEllisHugh

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Posted on 8/21/18 at 1:12 am to GOON

How many Shazier-type injuries do we see a year? Less than one.

Also head injuries are way overblown in football: before they introduced their silly protocol guys could come back from concussions in the same game.

Don't give me the CTE crap either, because the research is ambiguous and either way it's irrelevant because it rarely affects current players.

The most damaging injuries to pro football players continue to be knee ligament tears - these new rules are trying to fix a problem that doesn't really exist.

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Posted by LSUFreek

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Posted on 8/21/18 at 3:10 am to ForeverEllisHugh

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these new rules are trying to fix a problem that doesn't really exist.

But with the way lawsuits work, all it takes is one injury where if the business didn’t attempt to make their work place safer, or worse, purposely ignore certain studies, a jury can ruin a business or significantly hurt their wallet. And the NFL has had a long list of severe career ending injuries that’d step up to the plate.

Maybe one day tort reform will save the NFL, but that’s a slow slow train that’s made very little progress.

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Posted by LSUFreek

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Posted on 8/21/18 at 5:01 am to sml71

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Frankly, I say let them all sign waivers and just play football. I personally don't care about the safety of the players at this level. They know it's a violent sport going into it, and they get rewarded handsomely for the risks that they take.

I agree. But I don’t know enough about labor laws.

In my simple mind, if other dangerous jobs offer hazard pay and the employee is forewarned of the risks and accepts the job, it practically alleviates a business from culpability, so why can’t the NFL do the same?

But I’m a legal dummy, so I’m sure there are holes in that.

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