Players can wear guardian caps in game now
Every DB in the league should be wearing this ROFL
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">To reduce player risk and continue driving innovations in equipment technology, Guardian Caps have been authorized for in-game use this season.<br><br>Hear more from <a href="https://twitter.com/NFL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NFL</a> Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Allen Sills: <a href="https://t.co/PpqOBxEiHl">https://t.co/PpqOBxEiHl</a> <a href="https://t.co/tXUlAaEDbR">pic.twitter.com/tXUlAaEDbR</a></p>— NFL Football Operations (@NFLFootballOps) <a href="https://twitter.com/NFLFootballOps/status/1783921382314877363?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 26, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> |
Old men will be really mad
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Tua’s career has been extended another season.
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This should be coupled with a repeal of all "blows to the head" penalties.
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The ****?
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Don Beebe and Mark Keso are set to come out of retirement
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I'm a fan. I wear one of those around the house and I've had no concussions in roughly a year.
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Related: players will also be required to wear Jimmy hats off the field. Tyreek, amirite?!
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Does the cup match the bowl
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I'm a proponent of avoiding sharp blows to head when in my house. |
Looks so dumb. At least put the team logo on them if they’re going to wear them in games.
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You can wear one if you want to be called a pussy all game
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Makes the player look reeruned.
Next the team will arrive on a short bus. |
How has no one come up with a jab at Rain Man involving a French bicyclist yet?
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It looks a little silly, but it doesn't bother me that they're making it an option. I'd guess this will primarily come into play for guys who have recently had concussions.
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It looks silly, and will probably take a while to get used to seeing, but it was really just a matter of time for us to go from cool looking helmets to something more protective. I'm going to hate watching them bobbing around the field for a while though.
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Can wait for some funny bounces when the football hits the helmet.
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I definitely want Mahomes wearing one.
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I don't know how I feel about this. I find myself to be relatively young at age 31, and this to me makes the look of the game feel like it will be odd/weird?? Then again, who am I to bitch about what I'm viewing on another players helmet, and I am probably more or less going to get used to this new change when watching games. I'm just imaging though a bunch of oversized heads out there hitting eachother.
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I assume they arent heavy and dont throw off your equilibrium? Either way I feel like QB may not be a position to utilize them on where precision of timing is at a premium
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This may be another result of the Damar Hamlin injury?
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I guess teams will save a few dollars not having to put logos on the helmets.
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I just can't see the logic in one player wearing a padded helmet calling another player wearing a larger padded helmet a pussy.
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I really feel like this is the NFL's way of avoiding lawsuits down the road. "Hey, we offered more protection, the player refused to wear it" kinda thing.
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Run through his helmet and ask him if it helped.
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Totally makes sense. I bet that is exactly what is going on. |
If I'm an established veteran playing anything but RB/WR, I can't imagine not wearing it. **** how it looks, you only get one brain. Want to enjoy the majority of your life which comes after retiring from the NFL? Wear the damn thing and give yourself the best chance.
WR/RB I could see not doing it, because it might be an issue for vision in the receiving game. |
I’d prefer sombreros.
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The best athletes in the world will now look like peewee football players.
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Sure. I guess. I mean they look silly but so does the stupid new kickoff formation. Just need players to be allowed to wear “He Hate Me” jerseys moving forward. Now get off my lawn!
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I'm curious if we start to see at other levels. How many parents out there would simply dictate it as a requirement of their son's participation in high school football? I probably would. (I basically did this for my son who plays rugby and has option to wear a scrum cap.)
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First guys to wear these were laughed at... NOT REAL MEN! |
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It was a joke. :facepalm: |
Travis said on the podcast that the players hate them.
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I miss that game |
Imagine an o-lineman wearing it and getting called for lining up offsides with his giant helmet cap over the nose of the ball.
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I am ok with the safety
Make them look like lemmings from the video game |
Nerf helmets!
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">This is the craziest thing ever. These caps make no difference <a href="https://t.co/y2gohDNZXd">https://t.co/y2gohDNZXd</a></p>— Chris Jones (@StoneColdJones) <a href="https://twitter.com/StoneColdJones/status/1783937492594409522?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 26, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">First of all, the caps have never been used in a game so there’s no study in game. Secondly when we do use the caps is never live. <br><br>With that conclusion of course no one will get hurt.</p>— Chris Jones (@StoneColdJones) <a href="https://twitter.com/StoneColdJones/status/1783949428094570701?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 26, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> |
They can at least put the teams logo on them.
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This game is getting harder to watch more and more every year. Bad enough, having women referees, let alone all of the rule changes and hamstringing defenses in those rule changes for the most part. The only rules I will agree with is helmet to helmet, o-linemen protection of engagement of only 1 person, negating chop blocks, sacking QBs below the waist and blindside hitting defensless players not involved in the play. However conversely, I have never liked the horse collar rule, regardless of how many knee injuries have occurred. Weird I know, but just never liked that particular rule. Too old school, I get it. |
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I'm sure they hated it when helmets and pads were introduced also. Now whether these helmets can make much of a difference, I guess isn't settled. But I'm at least open to the possibility that it could. |
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My give a damn on this nothing burger. It's just dumbasses bitching to be bitching.
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People are more concerned about being made fun of than doing something effectively. |
Despite the aesthetic, if it prevents our players from getting concussions and put into the protocol, I hope the players wear them. I hate to see players miss time due to their egg getting scrambled.
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And yeah the strike zone on QBs is ludicrous. As is the “can’t fall on the QB with your full weight.” I’m fairly sure that once Pat retires I’ll stop watching the NFL, same as I stopped watching the NBA after MJ left. And as I’m quickly losing interest in MLB now that Yadi is gone. The game is trending towards something that doesn’t really resemble the game I grew up watching and the version it’s becoming won’t be worth my attention once Mahomes hangs them up. Probably for the best; will mean a lot more time for fly-fishing.:thumb: |
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And nobody would call Pat anything bad. Maybe he and some other stars will make them catch on outside of practice and situations like Daface referenced |
put one on pacheco at least
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If mic'd up wasn't filtered we'd get to hear a DB tell a WR he looks like a reeruned dick the first time they lined up with one on.
Makes me miss Sneed. |
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