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Toughest game without a doubt

perkdogperkdog Posts: 30,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
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After watching the games yesterday I cannot believe how vicious the hitting was, it seems to me that these guys get better and better every year. Just NASTY hitting and a brutal toll it has to take on these guys. I hope that TE from Buffallo will be OK, prayers out to him and his family.

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  • iamthegreatcornholioiamthegreatcornholio Posts: 3,366
    I hope the NCAA wakes up and realizes what a dumb move it was to move the kickoff spot.
  • drewsefdrewsef Posts: 1,894 ✭✭
    who keeps teaching these players to put their head down and go for a huge hit instead of head up and wrapping up with their arms? that is a major problem in both college and pro football, too many guys looking to be on jack'd up instead of making the play
  • Bosox1976Bosox1976 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Both the Bears/Chargers and Giants/Cowboys games were way more physical than most regular season games. Some pounding in both; lot of good guys hurt.
    Mike
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  • joestalinjoestalin Posts: 12,473 ✭✭
    It looks like Everet is going to be paralyzed. Sad day for the NFL. Way too many injuries.

    JS
  • DaBeefDaBeef Posts: 2,478
    Very sad, hopefully he can recover from this. Get well Kevin Everett.
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  • ctsoxfanctsoxfan Posts: 6,246 ✭✭


    << <i>who keeps teaching these players to put their head down and go for a huge hit instead of head up and wrapping up with their arms? that is a major problem in both college and pro football, too many guys looking to be on jack'd up instead of making the play >>



    Great point. I didn't see the play where Everett got hurt, but that form of tackling seems a lot more common these days, as players are always going for the SportsCenter highlight. To see a player get critically injured like that, is very sobering.
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  • dirtmonkeydirtmonkey Posts: 3,048 ✭✭


    << <i>who keeps teaching these players to put their head down and go for a huge hit instead of head up and wrapping up with their arms? that is a major problem in both college and pro football, too many guys looking to be on jack'd up instead of making the play >>



    Honestly, I believe that the NFL needs to start reviewing tapes after games and fine EVERY player that comes in and makes a hit with the top of his helmet during the course of a game. They rarely call penalties during the game for this and I see it happen so frequently. Many players don't even care about doing it until something like this happens.
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  • StingrayStingray Posts: 8,843 ✭✭✭
    I was at the Michigan State game this weekend and I do not know how many times I saw someone trying to takle with there shoulder or body. Someone catching the ball and some guy trying to take him down by lowering his shoulder into them. What happened to using your arms to wrap up a person??
  • SDSportsFanSDSportsFan Posts: 5,136 ✭✭✭✭✭


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    << <i>who keeps teaching these players to put their head down and go for a huge hit instead of head up and wrapping up with their arms? that is a major problem in both college and pro football, too many guys looking to be on jack'd up instead of making the play >>



    Great point. I didn't see the play where Everett got hurt, but that form of tackling seems a lot more common these days, as players are always going for the SportsCenter highlight. To see a player get critically injured like that, is very sobering. >>




    I saw that too, and to me, that's the reason he's now paralyzed. That "head down" tackle is the one constant in all the paralyzing hits I've seen, going back to a high school football player who did the same thing in San Diego in the late 1970's. Everett essentially "pile drove" himself into the opposing player. Players need to keep their heads UP, and they won't compress their spines when they make the hit.


    Steve
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