I have read that they were safer with the old leather helmets.
They hammered Harvin. I don’t want to say they were targeting him, but for a while there, I thought the Saints still had Greg Williams on their staff.
gif of the two hits here:
http://www.businessinsider.com/seahawks-percy-harvin-concussion-2014-1
I would laugh but I can’t afford, to jinx my 49ers. I will laugh after the 49ers win the Super Bowl.
I will say i will enjoy seeing Seattle sit out the first round of the 2014 NFL draft.
Getting the same problems in the NHL. A friend says the protective gear actually has too hard a shell, transferring more impact energy. So the irony is that gear designed to provide more protectioon is actually more dangerous.
Leather or some sort of other helemt needs to be the norm. When you are protected like they are with that hard shell and steel, it’s way too easy to just lead with their heads. more than half of the tackles these days aren’t even with their arms. They just go flying in there.
It’s all about leftist fags and feminists emasculating males who enjoy participating in and watching football, boxing, etc. May they all go to Hell.
Harvin is very talented, but I questioned his longevity when he came out of UF because he is not very big and he took too many hits. Another play of similar build and talent is Desean Jackson of Philadephia who is about the same build and lightning quick and he has gotten blasted more than once and I question how long he will last.
The reverse of that is a player like Darren Sproles or Santana Moss. Both are very small by NFL standards, but they both seem to survive the beatings.
I agree with the poster talking about teaching tackling techniques. Proper form tackling is wrapping up and taking them down - not using your body as a blunt force missile. The irony is that you see as many DB’s lay themselves out trying for these knockout blows as you do receivers!
The NFL is a very rough game and it will always be like that, but the league must continue to modify play or they risks the entire business for the sake of hard hits.
The Jamaal Charles removal showed how extreme this “cautious” approach has become. And it is all driven by the NFL’s fear of LAWYERS.
We can go to the moon and back. Send rovers to Mars and we can’t make a protective helmet? How about memory foam helmets? I’m totally serious. The hard outside shell of helmets should be removed. It CAUSES more injuries than it prevents.