NFL puts safety entirely on players, again
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The gruesome Week 13 Monday night game between the Steelers and Bengals brought back into focus the potential for extreme violence in football that has made so many fret for its future.Players, it was frequently suggested in the aftermath by access media, werNFL puts safety entirely on players, again
The gruesome Week 13 Monday night game between the Steelers and Bengals brought back into focus the potential for extreme violence in football that has made so many fret for its future.Players, it was frequently suggested in the aftermath by access media, weren’t holding up their end of the bargain in the quest for a safer game. The league, they claim, is doing its part to legislate away the big hits that often lead to concussions and players being loaded into ambulances.Of course, that argument overlooks the reality that the worst hits from that night weren’t especially egregious violations. The spinal injury suffered by Ryan Shazier happened on a standard tackle covering a receiver. The worst you can say about it is that Shazier led with the crowd of his helmet toward the receiver’s hip. The hit made by JuJu Smith-Schuster that led to a one-game suspension was perhaps six inches away from being legal. The helmet-to-helmet hit from George Iloka, for which he was initially suspended and then only fined, occur Read more