in 2005 all these vicious plays were not dirty plays either, just typical football collisions. Scott’s point is that enforcement can change how the game is played. It already has, probably half the plays in this JACKED UP compilation are now illegal.
both things can be true… this specific hit appeared to be shoulder first… AND the nfl should 100% be calling lowering the helmet and initiating contact with it by offensive players as some type of targeting penalty.
They tried this in the preseason a few years ago and it didn’t go well. Tons of flags on normal plays. You could probably change the behavior if you really steeped up enforcement but it would definitely a be a ratings drag and the NFL makes money first and foremost.
This is truly awful.
Yeah cpr can do that. Broken ribs, lung contusions, and air and/or blood in the chest cavity can all happen. Starting at 100% O2 is completely normal and weaning to 50% or lower throughout the 1st day is pretty much expected. Weaning O2 doesn’t tell me much about his overall condition.
This.
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I can’t believe that keeed found some way to insert himself into a highly topical and emotional situation, took a controversial position on the absolute edge of what could be possibly honestly thought, and then got himself a bunch of attention for it.
The second cardiac arrest is bad though.
Ryan Shazier says fuck you asshole.
You didn’t notice NBZ’s posting though?
Good points but posters here (I’d guess the majority) also always talk about how NFL will probably be dead in the not distant future anyway due to violence so maybe legislating things like this out of the game might as well be done now after this horrific accident because they probably will be legislated out in a few years anyway? AFL in Australia and both rugby and rugby league have changed tackling rules drastically in recent years (largely due to concussion issues). And from a game flow, enjoyment perspective it was a bit shit and penalty heavy at first but ah well.
lol no
This is correct (though I believe in the last olympics, a guy went hard on his brush, slipped, and went head first into the ice, so really nothing is safe)
First, they need to call the ones that already meet the rule. This one was incidental helmet contact. That hit by Epps on Burks 3 weeks ago was ridiculous and not even fined.
A smaller more efficient helmet could help?
What the fuck is wrong with you?
Helmets main purposes were to prevent the skull fractures that had kids dying all over college campuses 100 years ago. I don’t think we want to go back to that. If there was an easy solution for a better helmet that did both we’d probably have it by now.
Fun anecdote time, that was actually my senior design project in Mech Eng many years ago, designing a helmet that could protect the head from both catastrophic injury and mild injury. It’s pretty difficult to do. Soft materials work best for mild TBI protection because they compress easily (if they don’t compress at all, there’s no difference between the head hitting the surface with or without a helmet–you need to absorb energy somehow). However, stiff materials work best for catastrophic injury protection, because they can absorb a lot of energy.
My team won with a sharktooth design with soft and hard foam arranged like this:
The soft foam would compress easily, protecting against mild TBI, and as it compressed it would encounter more and more hard foam, providing additional energy absorbtion to protect against catastrophic injury.
It worked great in tests, which was all that mattered to us, but it was actually a bit too thick of a helmet to be practical. Other teams tried to use more advanced materials and actually performed worse than our simple foam design.
https://twitter.com/cryptoghuy/status/1610451630654201857?s=46&t=ulwSNlcnkyAv1yulyGZuBw
Well I guess it’s settled
Dr McCullough said that? Well I guess I’m convinced.
It’s MCollough sir. Can’t release the evidence because of Hippo. But he’s seen it, as has John Stockton.
