Bengals Punter Has His Jaw Broken

[chknwing]

I love football

 

[TheRed]

I don't even consider that football, that's just plain dirty, and unnecessary.

 

Terence Garvin should have been ejected. Kevin Huber (the punter) also has a cracked vertebrae.

 

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/12/16/bengals-punter-has-cracked-vertebrae-broken-jaw/

[KillerKat]

That's helmet to facemask. Should've been ejected. Should get a heavy fine and a game suspension.

[Hawk]

ya....that's a pretty shitty play...always worse in slow mo of course...but looks to me like a lead with the helmet. 

[CarolinaSock]

He could have flattened him with just a shoulder to the torso, but he gets low and launches up right under his chin. If the NFL is serious about safety and not just offensive players, should be hefty fine and suspension incoming.

[Inimicus]

This is the kind of poo that makes me want to see a reciprocity type of policy in the NFL.

 

You sideline a player with a dirty hit and you have to sit on the active roster for the duration of the injured players absence.

[g5jamz]

This is the kind of poo that makes me want to see a reciprocity type of policy in the NFL.

 

You sideline a player with a dirty hit and you have to sit on the active roster for the duration of the injured players absence.

 

Yep.

 

They're out as long as they are out (max full season).

 

Maybe even make the penalty fines go to the injured on top of it. 

 

But I'd love to see embellishment penalties too...like hockey. 

[The_Light_Brigade]

Wouldn't have happened if they didn't have helmets.  

 

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ainissa-g-ramirez-phd/footballs-paradigm-shift-_1_b_4428032.html

 

[Evengelion]

And of course a punter almost rip Ginn's head off last week to save a TD. The pressure NFL teams put on their players to do things like enormous.

[Panthro]

Wouldn't have happened if they didn't have helmets.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ainissa-g-ramirez-phd/footballs-paradigm-shift-_1_b_4428032.html

I played both football and rugby and completely agree. The helmet is more of a weapon than protective gear

[Panthro]

One of the differences in football and rugby though is in football distance is more valuable than possession. Football is indeed a game of inches therefore football players need to create impacts that stop forward momentum. IN rugby it is all about maintaining possession. I did not mind tackling someone and having them fall forward (advantage Panthro) or if I was about to be tackled I was more concerned with setting up my team to maintain possession vs fighting to gain a few extra feet.

[KSpan]

I really don't see anything dirty about that block - his head is up at the moment of contact and he's putting his shoulder into the punter's chest. The natural follow through makes it look like he's going for the guy's head, but he's clearly not. For safety reasons he could nave tucked and turned his own head rugby style, and perhaps that's the next step in the evolution of these types of rules.

Very unfortunate outcome for the punter though. Never want to see someone get injured like that, and I hope he recovers quickly.

[KSpan]

Wouldn't have happened if they didn't have helmets.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ainissa-g-ramirez-phd/footballs-paradigm-shift-_1_b_4428032.html

A logical concept, and in order to do this they would have to do away with all other rigid pads in their current form as well, especially shoulder pads. Football itself would come to look a lot like a different style of rugby, for better or for worse.

[The_Light_Brigade]

No doubt that would change the game entirely.