***** It involves the Seahawks' game but since it was the last opponent it may need to be moved to the NFL Forum******
According the Peter King the system worked the way it was supposed to work with Ben's concussion. He self-reported and was taken out of the game. Seriously? That's the system working? They guy self-reports after his team goes down two scores? I thought the whole point of the "system" was to take the hands out of the people directly affected.
http://mmqb.si.com/mmqb/2015/11/30/denv ... j-anderson
What if Ben had successfully led a go-ahead touchdown drive? Would he have self-reported before knowing whether or not the Seahawks re-took the lead?
The NFL really needs to get their rules in order or else you're going to end up with teams playing with different sets of rules. And who knows what might happen in that case . . . you could have a Super Bowl where one team loses its top pass rusher while the other leaves in their top receiver to catch the winning touchdown pass. Not that that would ever really happen, of course!
I'm not going to comment on the rule itself (I assume the idea of trying to minimize brain damage is a good thing [duh], but whether the rules are the best way to do that, I don't know), but if you're going to have rules and protections in place and disinterested 3rd parties charged with enforcing them, then that is what should happen.
According the Peter King the system worked the way it was supposed to work with Ben's concussion. He self-reported and was taken out of the game. Seriously? That's the system working? They guy self-reports after his team goes down two scores? I thought the whole point of the "system" was to take the hands out of the people directly affected.
http://mmqb.si.com/mmqb/2015/11/30/denv ... j-anderson
What if Ben had successfully led a go-ahead touchdown drive? Would he have self-reported before knowing whether or not the Seahawks re-took the lead?
The NFL really needs to get their rules in order or else you're going to end up with teams playing with different sets of rules. And who knows what might happen in that case . . . you could have a Super Bowl where one team loses its top pass rusher while the other leaves in their top receiver to catch the winning touchdown pass. Not that that would ever really happen, of course!
I'm not going to comment on the rule itself (I assume the idea of trying to minimize brain damage is a good thing [duh], but whether the rules are the best way to do that, I don't know), but if you're going to have rules and protections in place and disinterested 3rd parties charged with enforcing them, then that is what should happen.
