You can still block him. You just can't blow him up. Many players get concussions from these hits because their heads slam into the turf. I also had a player sever his spleen on a blind side hit. If they hadn't recognized an issue on the sideline he could have died. It doesn't take much of a hit to get this player on the ground and the blocker still has an opportunity to block someone. He's usually on the ground too.Okay.
Okay.
Silly-ish, but okay.
Literally couldn't care less, but okay.
Weak.
I'm not one of the whiners who claim that anything done in order to prevent injuries is killing the game, or that we're *this* close to flag football, but at some point we have to acknowledge that this is a dangerous sport, and eliminating 'blind side blocks' and 'two man wedges' is just stupid, imo. If you play football, you're gonna get hit - keep your head on a swivel and watch what you're doing.
I've long been a proponent for player safety, but if that becomes the singular driving force behind rule changes (which has seemingly been the case now for some time) it will ruin the game. No, we don't need the vicious shots to the head, etc - but cleaning a LBs clock who is in pursuit without looking at where he's going (insert other crack-back block scenarios at will) has long been part of the sport. It's going to be pathetic and infuriating watching a blocker have to side-step someone in pursuit since they were focused on the ball-carrier and not where they were running.
SMH
The NFL eliminated double team blocks on kickoffs last year. I've never seen the data but apparently they found there are more injuries when return teams double team. I've never noticed anything different.
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