Brace yourself for the ‘Brady rule’: Refs to explain changes at NFL camps

[MDFINFAN]

This is getting rediculus.. just put a red jersey on QB's during the game.

Beginning this season, defensive players on the ground during a passing play can’t lunge at a quarterback’s knees and make contact with their helmet or shoulder. The result is a 15-yard penalty. Defenders can swipe at the quarterback’s knees with their arm. But a lunge is a penalty.


Defenders must now get back to their feet and make a play.

the ‘Brady rule’

 

[Mr772]

Didn't they start that rule after Palmer got his knee rearranged in the playoffs against Kemo and the steelers?

 

[MDFINFAN]

Didn't they start that rule after Palmer got his knee rearranged in the playoffs against Kemo and the steelers?

Nope, that's why Brady ended up where he did last year..

 

[Slim]

Too bad... i love that rule! JK

 

[raving]

Rules are made to be broken...and so are the Patriots. I wish the Patriots to be at full strength for their drubbing at the hands of the Dolphins!

The changing of the guard already happened now we will break them into complete submission. Belechicks days are numbered!

 

[MP-Omnis]

Can they lunge at the thigh?

 

[MDFINFAN]

Can they lunge at the thigh?

Looks like if you're on the ground, you'd better close enough to arm tackle them, if they're a step or 2 away, you have to get up..by then the ball will gone..

 

[Dmarino110]

so its another rule similar to the TO rule...why does the NFL even bother to put a defense in front of the offense any more?

 

[dolpns13]

this was passed a while back around the time of the owners meetings.. the competition committee passed it... its definately out of hand...

 

[mnphinfan]

This is the dumbest f**king rule ever. Really how many QB's have gotten hurt before this rule...maybe like 3 or 4. There are only 3 I can recall. Brady, Palmer and the QB who Jared Allen of the Vikings hit last year, of which only 2 lost significant playing time. So we are basing a new rule on a very limited # of injuries. Why don't we just put the QB's in tutu's. Now I know the QB is the face of most frachise's and the NFL wants to protect that marketabillity but these guys are grown men who know the risk invovled in playing a collission sport but if the NFL doesn't want people to hit the QB then maybe they should just pust flags on their waist.

Furthermore, I don't see the NFL doing anything to protect linemen from being cut blocked. Far more linemen are injured this way each year but does the NFL do anything. NO because linemen are there to do the dirty work. If the commish really cared about protecting players he would have outlawed cutblocking on the line a long time ago.

I also feel rules should be made to protect people not give them an unfair advantage which this rule clearly does. Just think of the extra time a QB will have to throw the ball if the defensive player has to get back up to his feet before attempting to tackle the QB.

Worst of all this will clearly be an interpretation rule by the referee. In a split second he will have to decide; was he blocked into the QB's knee, was he trying to get up and was knocked down again, did the QB step into him, was he lunging at his knee or his thigh, and the list goes on and on. I can only imagine how many times a penalty flag will be thrown when one was not warranted.

This rule further proves how soft the NFL is becoming. I can only imagine what the gridiron greats such as Nitschke, Butkus, and Lambert would say if they had to play in the NFL today.

 

[DKphin]

This is getting rediculus.. just put a red jersey on QB's during the game.
"Beginning this season, defensive players on the ground during a passing play can’t lunge at a quarterback’s knees and make contact with their helmet or shoulder. The result is a 15-yard penalty. Defenders can swipe at the quarterback’s knees with their arm. But a lunge is a penalty."



the ‘Brady rule’

:rant:I totally agree. If Sage Rosenfels would have gotten injured because a defender lunged at him from the ground this rule would have never even came about. First you can't grab a QB and pull him down. You have to hit him in an non-violent manner and gently put him on the ground. Now this. The Politically correct Commissioner, who is supposed to be impartial in his decisions, is the most biased SOB ever. He allows his relationship with the owners, especially Kraft, have to much inflence. And to top it all off, he somehow gets Rich McKay and the rules committee to go along with him. The commissioner and the rules committee are supposed to act in the best interest of the game not bow down to the will of the owners. What they are doing with decisions such as this and other assinine decisions in recent years is destroying the game. Just as the players take the risk that they could be hurt at any moment and never play again. The owners have to be able to accept that this is a physical sport and even though you sign a player to a big contract, that individual has a high likelyhood of getting injured and his absence may set your franchise back.

I have one more grievance against these Jack@#$es that buy franchises. Every year you hear that the games are too long and we have to shorten the game. Hey idiots, the games are soo long because we have a commercial every two minutes during the contest. Instead of going after the most all mighty dollars you can possibly squeeze out of the idiot companies that run the ads. Why don't you bring saniety back and think of what is good for the sport instead of what is good for yourselves. That is a novel concept. I know it is never going to happen, but I can always dream:rolleyes2:

Each year the NFL drives the wedge a little deeper between me and my viewership. More and more I am turning to college football, not that they don't have many of the same problems just not as many for now, to watch a matchup. I will always watch the Fins, but to just sit down and watch a game-I would rather watch the SEC vs. the PAC-10 than watch Jacksonville and Cleveland.

 

[SQuinn17]

P*ssy Rule!!!!

 

[Dmarino110]

if you are on the ground can you wrap up the qb's ankles?

 

[Mr772]

The irony is that Vince Wilfork is one of the biggest offenders for this type of hit.

"Wilfork, a first-round draft choice from Miami in 2004, was fined $12,500 for a low, late hit on quarterback J.P. Losman on Buffalo's first series of the third game. Losman missed the rest of that game and the next two with a sprained left knee."

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/football/2008-01-27-1906698136_x.htm

 

[Fin #10]

Didn't they start that rule after Palmer got his knee rearranged in the playoffs against Kemo and the steelers?

I thought the same thing, but I wasn't sure if it was because of Palmer.