Trevor Lawrence's Injury Is 100 Percent The NFL's Fault For Allowing Quarterbacks To Slide
Here we go again. Another edition of the NFL is incredibly dumb for allowing quarterbacks (or technically anyone I guess) to slide. The stupidest rule in all of sports that causes traumatic head injuries in the name of preventing traumatic head injuries.
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Imagine being the NFL and making a quarterback who's on the run and filled with adrenaline trying to avoid defenders from all angles have to do the math to decide when one of 11 such potential defenders (who's also running very fast right at him) can stop in his tracks to allow the QB to slide before he leans in to prepare a legal tackle with his shoulder. As if this isn't an insane proposition already, once the QB does this math he then instantly drops his head right into the zone where, IF perhaps the math wasn't done perfectly, is the only legal horizontal plane above the ground that defender could legally tackle the QB had he not slid. This is literally what the NFL is implying the QB to be able to do. It's the single stupidest idea in the history of sports and I'm the only mother fucker out here with any writing outlet that seems to know.
At this point, I pretty much have zero respect for every big time sports writer who fails to see how clear this all is. I don't think it's that they're dumb. The can absolutely connect the easy dots. It's probably just because everyone is scared to have a counter opinion that doesn't blindly imbue support for a player that got hurt. I can assure any such writers that this lack of gumption and cowardice is exactly why Trevor Lawrence got hurt on Sunday. Had any of you with actual followings any courage, you'd have pointed out years ago that defenders aren't the enemy when it comes to quarterbacks getting hurt while scrambling. It's the NFL.
Like I did way back in January, 2023
And a year later in January, 2024.
And a week after that…
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Literally every component of my argument was on display Sunday. Here's the clip in slow motion of course, so all the dolts can pretend they know anything about football or inertia.
At least Ryan Fitzpatrick is willing to be open and listen to DeMeco Ryans who was 100% correct in what he said. Guess it paid to go to Harvard back in his day after all.
This is all insane. I'm no lawyer, but at what point is this legally on the NFL? You can't expect a quarterback to know when the defender is still able to keep his inertia and you can't expect a defender to never lean in at all (thus no longer able to stop) when going for a legal tackle to the torso. Allowing sliding is exaclty why Trevor Lawrence got hurt and it's 100 percent on them. Not Azeez.
