• cris9288@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 个月前

    Next season, defenses are going to have to count 3 Mississippi’s after the ball is snapped before rushing.

    • Goddess_Of_Gay@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 个月前

      And then Ryan gets sacked by Cam Jordan who came out of retirement for the occasion, both players suffering broken legs and out for the rest of the season.

  • CapriciousnArbitrary@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 个月前

    Let’s play more games on shorter rest to increase revenue. Then they wonder why so many players including stars are getting hurt more frequently and severely.

    • Cr33dBr4tton@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 个月前

      A few years ago the Raiders had something stupid like a MNF game followed by a London game followed by a TNF game.

      • KrispyyKarma@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 个月前

        Nah they didn’t play on a Monday before London. They did do 2 away games, London “home” game, bye week, 2 away games which deff sucks especially since it was one of their last seasons if not their last season in Oakland. So they had 1 less home game in Oakland for their fans

    • 333jnm@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 个月前

      This. And then on top of that let’s ref and change rules that benefit the passing game and so teams will pass more which puts qbs in the crosshairs of the defense more.

  • BrotherlyShove791@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 个月前

    If it wasn’t for the Eagles being so good, I’d be checked out on football until the postseason at this point. The 2023 regular season has been a dull, injury-plagued disaster full of lopsided snoozefests.

    Look at the Thanksgiving slate. Terrible.

    • Original_Profile8600@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      10 个月前

      Y’all never fail to amaze. There have been plenty of great games this year as their always is. I can name atleast 20 off the top of my head, I genuinely don’t know what you’re on about

  • ZeroFunStatix@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 个月前

    We have to suffer through terrible RTP calls just for half the QBs in the league to get injured anyway

    • Nerfeveryone@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 个月前

      If the NFL wants star QBs to not get injured then they should make it a flag football league. Injuries are inevitable in a collision sport.

    • well____duh@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 个月前

      Honestly, the NFL might as well do like a two-hand touch rule on QBs. Keep it so tackles are still RTP, but the QB is down if touched by two hands by a defender. And implement a new penalty for QBs who flop like in soccer/basketball.

      It’s not feasible for this current system if the NFL is wanting QBs to be uninjured but fining/penalizing the defense for making legit tackles. Something’s gotta give.

    • drewst18@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 个月前

      Have any of the season ending injuries been a result of a play that should have been a RTP?

      I’m struggling to find the 4. Cousins, JB, Jones and ?

      • Januse88@alien.topB
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        10 个月前

        Week 8: Kirk Cousins

        Week 9: Daniel Jones

        Week 10: Deshaun Watson

        Week 11: Joe Burrow

        • HotTakesMyToxicTrait@alien.topBEnglish
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          10 个月前

          Cousins and Jones were non-contact injuries while in the pocket

          Nobody is really sure when Watson got hurt; there was a video the day after the game that suggested it was on a scramble where he got hit in the shoulder, but unconfirmed

          Burrow got taken down on a fairly routine hit one play before his injury, on the play where the injury occured he threw a pass and then went down in pain without contact

          None of those 4 should have been roughing the passer imo

          • chewbaccalaureate@alien.topBEnglish
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            10 个月前

            Maybe the thought process is…

            More RTP penalties = more coaching/practice to avoid serious hits = less likelihood of QBs on the ground = less likelihood of injuries.

            I think the same reasoning is why it seems like OTs jumping before the snap for an extra step and so many plays looking like holds not being called so the NFL can neutralize the pass rush and keep the fun exciting part of the game (for the common audience) going strong.

            No casual viewer (Swiftie watching for Kelce) is enjoying defensive dominance. They want high flying, QB centered offenses scoring tons of points so that’s what the NFL wants.

          • hiel_Manziel@alien.topBEnglish
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            10 个月前

            Watson was hurt initially from a dirty as fuck play from the titans. It’s confirmed and has been for awhile. Absolutely should’ve been a penalty. It’s Watson tho so I get why nobody really cares

          • srkjb@alien.topBEnglish
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            10 个月前

            Burrow’s injury may have been because of the new RTP rules. Clowney tried to avoid landing on him resulting in clowney smashing burrows hand with his own.

        • FlavaFraz24@alien.topBEnglish
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          10 个月前

          Burrows wasn’t because a man landing on someone when tackling someone is NOT roughing. Clowney just made a great play.

    • retrohank@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 个月前

      I was listening to a fantasy football podcast the other day, and one of the hosts commented that maybe the QBs are overly protected, so they become fragile. Which at first sounds silly, but I got to thinking about it more.

      I’m not necessarily talking about the RTP calls, but rather the way practices are held, where QBs are not taking any hits at all. Like, yeah, it makes sense to not rough up your $45m/year face of the franchise. But maybe there is something to this.

      I’m a fan of pro wrestling, and don’t let that cloud what I’m about to say. There are many pro wrestlers who have gone years and years without a serious injury. Arguably, their bumps are more planned and controlled, in other words, their legs aren’t getting tangled up and rolled up on like an NFL player is. Through time, they are callousing their body. Wrestlers who miss even a week of bumping will complain about it. I was thinking about how the Rock made a return match years ago at Wrestlemania, and he got super injured. He tore a quad and also had to have an emergency hernia operation. The Rock had been removed form a wrestling ring for a long time at this point and blew himself up out there.

      I’ll go out on a limb here and say that the average QB is not as calloused and banged up as the rest of the league. Mind you, this doesn’t stop freak tackles that roll your entire leg up under you or break your ankle. I don’t know how those can be helped. But I do think there is perhaps something do this. There’s probably a tradeoff, though. Have a QB at 95% health throwing bombs with the risk of getting injured, vs. a QB at 75-80% health doing his best impression of Tom Brady back when NE would dice up their opponents via death of a thousand 4 yard plays.

      • onethreeone@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 个月前

        I started writing more about wrestling before I saw your middle paragraph haha. The one thing I’ll still say is that anecdotally there seems to be more injuries in AEW than WWE, and the former only really does TV tapings while the latter works house shows during the week.

        I don’t think it really applies to QBs since they still get hit a lot during a game. Just look at Cousins in The Quarterback. But maybe they throw or brace themselves differently because they expect upper-body hits within the rules

    • whobroughtmehere@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 个月前

      The NFL should just break out the red jerseys. If they want to protect QBs they should put flags on their waist already

  • DBreezy69@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 个月前

    Be nice if the NFL did literally anything to prevent Achilles injuries but nope can’t be bothered to so they can just blame themselves

    • DapDaGenius@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 个月前

      Ikr. This is such a weird way to just say a stat. Would have made more sense to say “a starting QB has had a season ending injury every week over the last 4 weeks”. That’s it. No need to say “the NFL is hoping for no more injuries”. No shit. They want the best product on the field, so they can sell more tickets, have better advertising for matchups and overall have more interesting games.

    • JavierCakeAndEdith2@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 个月前

      You have to hope some get injured, otherwise what is there to write about? Some team scored more points? BORING! But we’ve crossed the line where writing about injured QBs is no longer interesting so they should stop getting hurt.

    • bthe_beast@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 个月前

      Schefter wanted the injury headline clicks because he’s clickbait trash, but he also wanted to make sure to do it in a way that is totally not just him using injuries to generate clicks. So here we have “the NFL cares and so do I” when really he just wanted to mention the injuries for clicks.