"djcubez" wrote:

I don't know if anyone has been paying close attention to the escalation in the amounts from "week one" to "week two"...since the "pronouncement" from on-high--

...Coupled with (it seemed to me) the increasing "ticky-tack" b.s. nature of several of those "determinations" by the league/commish/bunch of pointy-headed REMF <----- (if you don't know what that is, move on-unimportant-we also have acronym Nazi's in addition to our grammar Nazi's :tongue3: ) parlimentarian lawyer-types.

I would not be surprised AT ALL if Colllins caught the first suspension.

It would figure, too---

That will get me going on wonderlic scores and stuff, so I'll reserve comment on that. :tongue3:

"dfosterf" wrote:

Gee...even a pinhead academic like me knows that a REMF is a "rear echelon mother-fucker".

(Of course, here in the academy, we keep our REMF's front and center and in control of everything.)

I actually am wholly unsurprised at the fine, though. IMO he ducked his head AFTER the ball had already passed Williams hands. Whether such hits should be subject to 50K fines we can debate, of course.

Of course, IMO, I think defensive players should be fined $1000 for every example of bad form tackling, of which this was one of many Collins has committed.

"Wade" wrote:

Heh. As long as we don't fine our WRs every time they drop the ball. We'd have a few of them on welfare. ;)

"zombieslayer" wrote:

The NFL is being slightly unrealistic in guys hitting the target zone on players in motion.. at least the way they have been instructed.

When I was a teenager, going to camp after camp, the basics were watch and aim for the hips. However even at these camps, high school and college camps, that if you were looking to dislodge a catch.. aim for the rib cage and arms. A player that is in the motion of falling.. a rib cage shot quickly becomes a neck/head shot.

But the NFL in this case is trying to force change from the top and pushing it down.. it will take some time for the change to filter down and get back to the basics of aiming for the hips and gut with the shoulder and head to the side. Form tackling in the NFL is awful..

But to elevate the fines in the middle of a season without much notice and window to effectively define what is findable and what is not, seems a little knee jerk and unrealistic.. not to mention allowing for players to adjust to the change.

Also, how are they going to account for offensive players movements that put them into harms way and when they start to utilize the rules to draw extra yardage but changing their hit zone prior to contact. Guaranteed that offensive players, much like the QB's, will put a little extra "show" into drawing the penalty and fine/suspension. Simply drop your head/shoulders rapidly..

"pack93z" wrote: