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Originally Posted by sportscurmudgeon
I was with you until the last statement.
The NFL Competition Committee - - the one that has the most say in terms of rules and rules interpretations - - is a much better procedural way to analyze the rules of the game and to adjust the rules of the game as compared to players.
Joe Gibbs and Mike Shanahan (just to keep this close to home) never "played the game" at the NFL level. Would you rather have them be part of a rule-changing process or would you rather it be Chad Ochocinco, Albert Haynesworth and JaMarcus Russell?
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SC, let me explain. I am not say disolve the Rules Committee, just remove a few owner/coaches and add a few players to the mix. The reason I feel this way is owners and to a certain extent the coaches will sometimes make rule changes to protect certain position players over others. They treat it too much like a business and make some decisions based on business, ratings and money. Not always what is best for the game or the players. The best example of this is all of the over board rules to protect Qb's, WR and offensive players, but the same rules do not apply to the brethren on the defensive side of the ball. If these rules are REALLY about protecting
all the players they would be on both sides. But these rules were really past so famous QB's and WR's not lose games and thus not lose TV ratings.
Lets not kid ourselves, if a defensive lineman goes down to a dirty play of an offensive lineman nobody in the TV world really cares. For example the chop block and various forms of holding are tolerated in order to protect their bread and butter golden boys.
Our OLB Brian Orakpo was held at least a half a dozen times in every game where it was not called. But by contrast you innocently bump a QB after he throws or the Qb ducks to avoid a sack and the defensive players hands accidently touches his helmet and it called nearly 99% of the time.
Of course only a few smart well respected players should be allowed on the rules committee along with the select coaches. Not the thug morons players. There are a few players on each team with quality college degrees and are capable of higher reasoning that can do as good a job any coach or owner. You are selling the player short due some bad apples. There have been some coaches who are idiots too. Tom Cable comes to mind.