It is clear that the NFL is taking a hard stance on protecting QB’s, I ask the question, at what price to the NFL game.
An Ignoramus’ Guide to Super Bowl XLV
February 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Here are the keys for each team heading into the Super Bowl Big Game on Sunday.
Don’t Be Misled By Super Bowl XLV
February 5, 2011 By 8 Comments
I’m picking the Pittsburgh Steelers to win the Super Bowl (in case you haven’t pick up on that by now), and the more people talk about how great the Packers are, the more confident I feel.
Steelers Say the Hits Won’t Stop; They Don’t Care About Fines and Flags
November 22, 2010 By 12 Comments
How do the Steelers change their game so that they are abiding by the tougher rules and avoid big fines? Harrison and the Steelers say they won’t. Nor does Mike Tomlin or Dick LaBeau want them to change.
Mike Tomlin says “There was no such letting up!”
October 27, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Over the past week and a half Mike Tomlin hasn’t found a microphone or a reporter that he didn’t feel like talking to or into. If you remember from last week Tomlin was in the news because he didn’t like it one bit when the NFL criticized his players
A Possible Resolution for Illegal Hits to the Head in the NFL
October 21, 2010 By 5 Comments
From fans to current and former NFL players and sports talk radio hosts. People have expressed their displeasure with the Harrison and Robinson helmet to helmet fines and how the NFL is handling this issue by proposing that a player will be fined and suspended if he commits a flagrant helmet to helmet hit in the future.
NFL Big Hits: Are Suspensions Warranted?
October 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment
As we’re all probably aware by now, after the rash of vicious and concussion-inducing hits over the weekend, the NFL has made a rare in-season rule change to allow the league office to issue suspensions for “flagrant and illegal hits,” especially helmet to helmet blows.
James Harrison gets fined $75K. Tomlin in favor of tougher penalties for helmet to helmet hits
October 19, 2010 By 3 Comments
Despite the Pittsburgh Steelers long standing tradition of being one of the league’s most intimidating, hard hitting, physical teams, Mike Tomlin favors stricter enforcement of helmet to helmet hits and he supports whatever the NFL deems necessary to make the game safer. At the same time he insists that James Harrison’s violent hit on Mohamed [...]
