NFL Penalties

[addict3]

I am curious about everyone's opinion of the sanctions imposed on the NFL coaches and players regarding "Headhunting".
Were they strict enough to deter this type of behavior in the future? Were the fines large enough to cause an NFL player to think again before trying to deliberately hurt another player?

I don't think one year suspension for a coach is enough if he is guilty of this but, I don't have all of the facts.
What do you guys think?

[addict3]

Thanks drifter but I was talking about the illegal hits that are intended to take another player out of the game by injury. If certian players were taken out, they were paid a bonus.

But otherwise I agree,  it is football, let them hit each other.  Sounds like congress might be helping the NFL with rule changes at times! LOL

[drifter0213]

it seems that "hits" are part of the game, headhunters? i don't think so don't change nothing about the game please, oh i played defense for five years hits are necessary!

[minn66]

Totally agree, addict. I guess my point is that while we certainly don't want to see people get hurt, football is a contact sport. You go into it understanding you will get hit. There is no excuse for headhunting. At the same time, the NFL is imposing such strict rules that they are taking away from the game. I agree that those who were part of being compensated for taking people out should receive worse punishment. It also shouldn't matter who the qb is. I recall many a time when Steve McNair was hammered, once used as a trampoline by Tony Saragusa, and there wasn't even a flag thrown, although later Saragusa was fined. Yet you breathe on a Manning or Brady and out comes the laundry. I realize the running qb's are less likely to be protected because they are out of the pocket, but officials seem to allow rougher hits on them than they would a qb of the more traditional style. I guess I just want to see consistency more than anything.

[addict3]

Vicki, I think their moral compass is pointing south!
It really irritates me that you can't hit  the QB anymore but a headhunter can pay or be paid and only get a year suspension!

[vicki595]

We haven't heard the last of this!    But, I think about these men and wonder where their moral compass is...This is just shameful!

[ricart70]

It's not that you have to watch what you are doing and how you defend or block,it is the fact that the players are compensated for causing injury to an opposing team member.   In the rest of the country it is illegal to pay someone to hurt someone else.The nfl games take place within the jurisdiction of the law.This is just plain and simple illegal.No debate here really. I do know that in boxing and mma that people do get injured at the hands of their opponents but this is not the object in either of these sports.

[minn66]

I don't think they should be allowed to blatantly try to hurt someone. At the same time, it is getting to the point where you can't play defense any more. Good grief, there are some quarterbacks that if you breathe on them they toss the yellow hanky. There's got to be a happy medium somewhere. If they get too ridiculous it will be like watching flag football.

[IBKleen]

Not that I didn't know what was going on (not to this extent) but I think it is despicable. And I think Peyton got what he deserved. The idea of it shows poor sportsmanship and is morally distasteful.  I'm so angry about it that's all I am going to say. Bad, bad, bad.....