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The thing is that it's really not fat shaming. I would guess that the body fat on players are less than ever. The athletes are basically over engineering their bodies. While impressive, it's definitely leading to higher intensity collisions. I don't know how feasible a weight limit approach could be, but it is worth exploring in my opinion.
We should just put the Big 12 out of its misery and split the teams up between the BigTen and SEC. Kansas schools, IASt, and Mizzou go to Big Ten, Oklahoma schools and TCU go to SEC, Tx goes indy, TxTech, Baylor, and WVU get dropped to midmajors.
Too bad he wanted to play running back or the Edmunds defense would have been complete.
Lets make a contraption that holds a chicken egg on top of the players helmets. If the egg gets broken, the player has to sit out a play to get it replaced. /st
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# | Finding the H-Back, The Versatile Centerpiece of Justin Fuente's Memphis Offense Thanks for the response and a great write-up! Fuente has stated a few times that execution of the "gimme" plays is paramount, primarily in reference to QBs. I feel like his Freshman year, no stats to back this up, behind a not so effective O Line that Shai was good for a 3 yards and cloud of dust play. Hope he returns to form. Here is an odd one, if MW gets healthy, could he see time at H Back? I know it may seem unorthodox at first thought.
This move isn't about protecting players. This move is an aggressive PR move to show the public they "care" about the players so you'll keep spending money on it. This isn't about concussions or CTE or being tough or weak. This is about money. If you think otherwise you're blind to the reality.
Hey, a real argument! If this was your point you should have said that a long time ago and left the half-baked social commentary at home. Of course it's about money. It's also about keeping the sport alive so that those people continue to make money. It's also about keeping the sport relevant because it's something a lot of people love and means a lot to a great many people (we're all on this site for a reason). Being a cynic doesn't make you smarter than everyone else, it just makes you harder to reason with.
What hasn't caused the Big 12 to consider expanding membership?
Along those lines, I remember reading something that the reason rugby has fewer injuries is because of the lack of padding. Football players feel like they are invincible because of the pads, so they throw themselves full force into a situation. Meanwhile, rugby players don't get that false sense of invulnerability.
Sure - lets throw more poo on the pile and pass it off as a masterpiece.
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# | Elimination of the kickoff on the table by college football rules committee 
I'm really regretting having created this thread with how politically charged some of these snarky replies have gotten.
Or his lack of ability to get open...
Clearly TKP pun threads have corrupted the Internet.
Ford stays focused at the catch point, but he isn't a strong traffic target and is clearly at his best when given space to work.
would drastically affect the forward pass and change the game as whole
Perhaps you overlooked the stipulation that helmet removal would only take place in practice rather than live games. Basically it's just a form of conditioning, during a time when collisions can be monitored and controlled rather strictly. During games, players get their helmets back for the necessary protection reasons, but after they've spent every practice without it. Over time, proper tackling form would be apparent again.
Good idea...that or something similar.
There is nothing inherently dangerous about putting the ball in play with a kick. The problem is the structure of the play.
That's fat shaming. Check your privilege. /s in a massive way
Baseball actually has a high chance of injury from RSI aka Repetitive Stress Injuries. They are noncontact injuries but if you had a surgeons pay for every rotator cuff repair there was in baseball, you would be a wealthy surgeon.
You know that old saying that every announcer utters when a DB drops an easy interception: "If he could catch, he would be a WR?"
That's Deon Newsome. There was never any evidence that he couldn't catch, but the lack of balls thrown his way for the number of plays he was on the field was probably indicative of our confidence in his mitts.
I'll agree with you and I know full well it is a fallacy. In general, I see a lot of eliminations recently as a good thing with regards to chop/crack blocking, targeting, and other recent changes. It seems to me that a lot of other unsafe "football moves" have been remedied. Instead of throwing the baby out with the bath water we could look into the specific types of moves that are causing these concussions. Saying a type of play is the most dangerous in football so let's ban that play means whatever move is causing these concussions is still out there. Let's address the issue instead of kicking the can down the road.
My mental health loves this comment.
Yeah I like the idea of cross training guys and building well rounded DBs to an extent, but sometimes I felt like it was being done too much. I mean, do you want 4 guys who are pretty good and interchangeable or 2 extremely good CBs and 2 extremely good Safeties?
The problem is when the returner doesn't protect themselves. The amount of injuries I feel like I see on non-fair catches where the back man is eliminated seems ridiculously high (nothing scientific). At least a kick off returner can see what is in front of them most of the time.
Just playing devils advocate and I agree with a lot of what you say. There is definitely more danger on the kickoff return for the blocking units.
"HUNTER COMMITTED VIA NEW FANGLED SNAPCHAT VIDEO, HE'S TOO MUCH OF A DIVA FOR HERE!!!!111!!!!"
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