Cam Newton Relevance: Egregious Hits To Head = Automatic Ejection

[Saca312]

Cam Newton has been beaten, and battered throughout most of the 2016 season. Without a healthy o-line, Cam Newton appeared to have gotten hit the most last year throughout his whole career. The first Bronco game comes to mind when this subject comes up. The NFL, and the refs, appeared to not give any fugs about Cam whatsoever.

Now, egregious hitting to the head is an automatic ejection from the game.

Although refs are likely to ignore such in the case of Cam, it still is a small step. 

Thoughts?

[X-Clown on 1]

I'm sure the "official" version has an asterisks at the bottom reading "Cam Netwon Excluded."

[thunderraiden]

Will this result in a much bigger fine? Also in the case that the refs miss it and call the nfl reviews it and deems it in fact egregious?

[MechaZain]

I have full faith in the officials' discretion as they have had such an outstanding track record of these calls in the past.

[countryboi]

It should have always been this way it was insane that you could hit someone in the head send them in to the protocol and only receive a 15 yard penalty.  If im a defender thats a win/win for me. 

[Cookie Lyon]

10 minutes ago, X-Clown on 1 said:

I'm sure the "official" version has an asterisks at the bottom reading "Cam Netwon Excluded."

Sad, but true.

[Hoenheim]

Won't believe it until I actually see it enforced in Cam's case . They said all the pretty words last season and Cam still got shafted 

[LinvilleGorge]

If they won't even throw a flag, they're definitely not gonna eject people for hitting Cam in the head.

[outlaw4]

17 minutes ago, X-Clown on 1 said:

I'm sure the "official" version has an asterisks at the bottom reading "Cam Netwon Excluded."

Right below the one that says a finger on Tom Brady's helmet is considered egregious.

[Panthers8969]

somebody have that gif of Stewarts hit on cam?

[Tarheels23]

Watch the word egregious still be too subjective. 

[CRA]

35 minutes ago, Saca312 said:

Cam Newton has been beaten, and battered throughout most of the 2016 season. Without a healthy o-line, Cam Newton appeared to have gotten hit the most last year throughout his whole career. The first Bronco game comes to mind when this subject comes up. The NFL, and the refs, appeared to not give any fugs about Cam whatsoever.

Now, egregious hitting to the head is an automatic ejection from the game.

Although refs are likely to ignore such in the case of Cam, it still is a small step. 

Thoughts?

my thought?

well if they didn't throw flags for those hits then they certainly won't eject guys for those.

but I suspect Brady could have someone ejected for scraping his helmet with a violently placed pinkie finger

 

that new rule doesn't address the issue we saw last year.  Issue last year was not calling the hits.  This rule applies to hits refs would actually acknowledge.  The lack of acknowledging the Cam hits was the issue.   For this rule to matter, the issue still has to be dealt with

[Ivan The Awesome]

We need to build a wall around our Mexican Quarterback. 

[jayflip]

I wish I was a fly on the wall in that meeting to see which video clips were broadcast to illustrate the point.