The Brady rule. This is crazy! It's hard to enjoy a decent game of football when your team is flagged for this ridiculous rule. Its one thing if a guy is deliberately making a dirty hit that could injure a player or place his career in jeopardy. Its a whole different ball game when you flag a guy for touching the QB.
Even though I'm reacting like this based on a few non-hits made on Brady, for who the rule was put in place, this past week against Baltimore, it is spilling over into other games. Namely, teams with star QB's are getting the benefit of lousy calls because the league is afraid that it will lose another superstar for a year like it did with both Brady and Carson Palmer.
These guys get paid to play the game of football. This is a man's sport! You're telling me they have to be untouchable during the whole game? Just my two cents, but I believe in penalties that prevent injury but not penalties that prevent the game from being played.
Posts
The Eclecticc here and well.......
ReplyDeleteI think we are going to have to part philosophical ways on this one Jward.
Let's sit and think about this for one second, is this REALLY a man's game or is it a BUSINESS man's game? Loss of a star starting QB in the final analysis equals what.....loss of MONEY. And in the end isn't that what is most important to the league? If you weren't a fan, but owned a team would you feel the same way? Are they paid to play to game of football, or are they paid to GET US TO WATCH the game of football?
Leaving the business end of football, I also don't believe that this rule will impact the game of football that heavily. I think that the men who do the sacking of the QB just need to learn that they now can't get to him "by any means necessary", they now have to actually tackle him cleanly, all the time.
My two cents and your two cents equal four cents of course and i'm interested in hearing the weigh in of your other followers.
Us fans in New England like our quarterbacks standing up right. that being said the head slap to Brady and Flacco wouldn't have hurt Giesle without a helmet on! Brady giggling a
ReplyDeletelike a school girl afterward didn't help either. Defensive players are between a rock and a hard place. I'm sure they are taught to get their hands up when the QB is passing. but you have to bring them down to make a tackle right past the helmet, head. But the rules are the rules and if you don't like it you can take your ball and go home. Because it is all about the money. How many playoff (ie. more money) games would the Patriots have won (earned)if Brady doesn't go down in week one?