A week after saying he has to be smarter about personal fouls, Pittsburgh Steelers safety Ryan Clark was fined $40,000 for a helmet-to-helmet hit Sunday night and he's not happy about it.
via espn.go.com
This is beyond ridiculous. The hit on Gronk was illegal, even Clark admitted it, but the hit on Dickson was totally clean. He didn't lead with his helmet. Helmets WILL collide, it's a contact sport.
I have said it before, I will say it again - the NFL does not care at all about player safety, they care about the viability of having their top playmakers (ie: OFFENSIVE PLAYERS) stay on the field. What about the Tight End that crackbacks a defender? No flag. Even if it's helmet to helmet which it ALWAYS is. Why? Because they are inflicting it.
If the NFL truly cared, they would outfit every single player with the Riddell HITS technology helmets that record every hit a player takes or gives. They would take this insane amount of data, hand it over to some big company like Google to crunch and derive real information out of based on injury reports and whatnot, and player safety would be all the better for it. Not this ticky tack bullshit.
Roger Goodell is watering the game down and is actually making it more dangerous for defenders because they hesitate. When you do that your odds of injury go up tenfold.
Ridiculous.
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