SJB - Targeting Rule discussion

I honestly think if we want to end head injuries and the stupid "targeting" rule, we need to go back to different helmets. And also making blocking like it was before the late eighties, no hands, just pushing with forearms.

Along with that, allow the DBs to once again use their hands more, especially on the line of scrimmage.

If a guy has a plastic helmet and only one bar across the face, we won't spear. If the lineman can't hold and it's more of a "push" block the head on head collisions would be less. If the defense were allowed to actually play defense instead of just trailing the offense around the field, it would slow down some of the one on one tackling in space which leads to such big hits. There used to be way more wrap up tackles around the legs and waist before all the offensive advantage rules and hard plastic helmets.

I'm not talking about a return to the 1920s. Just a more sensible approach to WHY the game has gotten so fast and violent. Because of every damn rule that allows the offense such an advantage, it leaves the defensive player in a no win tackling situation, a la SJB.

Of course, what Id really go for is ending all this bullsh#t rules and just let em play. It's ruining football.

 
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Again, there's a problem with the application of this rule. I've seen two players ejected now, Stanley and now Roby. I haven't seen the other ejections today, so if it's different let me know.

Earlier in the drive in which Roby was ejected, he had another tackle where there was helmet-to-helmet contact. In that play there was no flag, but two things stood out to me:

1) It was a running back, and so far I haven't seen a tackler flagged or ejected for h2h contact on a running back - only on a receiver.

2) In that h2h contact with the RB, whom do you eject, Roby or the RB? Because the the argument could be made that the running back initiated the h2h contact.

Is this rule only going to be enforced on receptions, where the offensive player is focused on the ball?

Is it not going to be enforced on running plays at all (reference the h2h contact in the Purdue tackle of Newby last week)?

Are offensive players going to be ejected for targeting at any time, or is this a rule focused solely on defenders?

 
More for defenseless players. They said in the Tennessee game that a player running the ball is not considered defenseless (h2h with the QB who tucked the ball and ran). So its probably a rule designed more for receivers.

 
knapplc said:
Again, there's a problem with the application of this rule. I've seen two players ejected now, Stanley and now Roby. I haven't seen the other ejections today, so if it's different let me know.

Earlier in the drive in which Roby was ejected, he had another tackle where there was helmet-to-helmet contact. In that play there was no flag, but two things stood out to me:

1) It was a running back, and so far I haven't seen a tackler flagged or ejected for h2h contact on a running back - only on a receiver.

2) In that h2h contact with the RB, whom do you eject, Roby or the RB? Because the the argument could be made that the running back initiated the h2h contact.

Is this rule only going to be enforced on receptions, where the offensive player is focused on the ball?

Is it not going to be enforced on running plays at all (reference the h2h contact in the Purdue tackle of Newby last week)?

Are offensive players going to be ejected for targeting at any time, or is this a rule focused solely on defenders?
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This was the case in the NW vs Minny game and the commentators talked about it. Minny QB lowered head and hit a defender (who was hurt and I believe done for game because of it) and not flag was thrown.

 
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