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Josh Jacobs fined for a regular play – is the NFL pushing the button too hard on fines?
In more recent years, the league has shifted some of its rules to protect quarterbacks even more, which has made the job of defensive players even harder. Even though a pass rusher’s job is to get to the quarterback, the NFL now places a different set of rules on how to hit – imagine thinking about this in real time.
But there’s also a recent point of emphasis about ball carriers not lowering their helmets before meeting a defender. The league wants to diminish the number of head-against-head contacts due to the number of concussions that can arise from these kinds of plays, which is why the Las Vegas Raiders’ star was fined twice.
Former NFL superstar J. J. Watt was vocal on his Twitter a couple of weeks ago about how he hates the new policy on fines. From his point of view, the league should absolutely keep fining players for malicious hits and real unnecessary roughness plays, but they shouldn’t discount a player’s salary for a regular football play, even if they deem that sometimes a block was a little exaggerated or the head was too low:
The NFL needs to sort this mess out and stop fining players for being players. The league sometimes steps a bit too far with its rules, and the players are unhappy with it.
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