🏈 NFL Official 2023-2024 NFL Thread

FirstWorldProblems · Mar 26, 2024

Maro said:
Does that qualify as a swivel element? I have no clue, I'd guess not and say that was incidental, but who knows how tight they'll call these till the season starts.

As much as I'm anti replay review of flags after the PI challenge disaster from a few years ago, it might be necessary for these full speed plays.

One unintended consequence of this could be that more players are going to take out at the knees instead

Either it qualifies as a swivel, or the rule is useless, because that's the tackle that injured Andrews. The point is that there was really no other way to tackle him in that situation, and that the injury happened because football is a dangerous game NOT because the hit was dirty. JJ watt semi-joked about how he'd have preferred not to have linemen constantly going straight for his knees, but that nobody seems to care about that.

What really seems like is happening is that the NFL wants more offensive plays because that's what they believe people want to see. Lower extremity injuries hit a 4 year low last year, so did they really do this for the safety aspect? Doesn't seem like it.

2023 Season Key Takeaways

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The decrease in the injury burden was driven largely by a decline in lower-extremity injuries, including lower-extremity strains, knee injuries and ACL tears.

Meaningful Progress in Reducing Lower Extremity Injuries
Lower extremity strains – the highest burden injury in terms of time lost among NFL players – reached a four-year low across the preseason and regular season.
Clubs began the 2023 injury prevention process in the offseason by developing individualized, data-driven preseason acclimation strategies to help players reintegrate into football activities at the start of training camp and decrease the risk of injuries as players ramp up to in-season performance levels. These efforts helped drive a 29% decrease in missed time due to lower extremity strains during training camp, compared to 2021 and similar to 2022 when the injury reduction efforts around the preseason ramp-up period began.
Players also experienced a 50% lower recurrence rate of lower extremity injuries this season, in part due to the critical time spent acclimating at the beginning of the season.
"Really, a marker of the successes of this year is that our number of regular season games missed due to lower extremity strains was down 23% compared to 2021 and 2022," said Dr. Herzog. "We're reducing those injuries in early preseason and training camp, and that's really having an impact on players in terms of not only reducing injury but reducing the impact in terms of playing time."

Shawn1112 · Mar 26, 2024

FirstWorldProblems said:
Either it qualifies as a swivel, or the rule is useless, because that's the tackle that injured Andrews. The point is that there was really no other way to tackle him in that situation, and that the injury happened because football is a dangerous game NOT because the hit was dirty. JJ watt semi-joked about how he'd have preferred not to have linemen constantly going straight for his knees, but that nobody seems to care about that.

End of story!

CMNTMXR57 · Mar 26, 2024

Here are some new kickoff rules too. All I see is more returns for TD's with this.

NFL approves 'radical' kickoff rule change: Here's what to know

The proposal will impact where teams line up in hopes to reverse the trend of what the league felt was becoming a ceremonial play.

www.yahoo.com

FESTER665 · Mar 26, 2024

10sec · Mar 26, 2024

The fans could easily change all of this by not watching this shit.

Fish · Mar 26, 2024

10sec said:
The fans could easily change all of this by not watching this shit.

That is the best answer actually.

Also, I found out how to safely tackle someone without going for the hips or knees. Might need to upgrade helmets though.