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This is a joke right you mean to tell me you can't wear your old helmet,so your going to pout and act like a little child just unbelievable

 

Saturday's Action...

 

Officials ejected 49ers safety Adrian Colbert on Saturday night for a hit the NFL is attempting to eliminate.

Colbert lowered his head to initiate contact on Cowboys receiver Cedrick Wilson, who was injured on the play. The pass was incomplete, and Colbert blasted the defenseless receiver with 3:42 remaining in the third quarter.

The 49ers received a 15-yard penalty, the team’s 11th of the game, and team officials escorted Colbert to the locker room.

The NFL is emphasizing the “use of helmet” rule this season after adopting it in 2018, and owners voted in March to expand the authority of game officials to disqualify players for acts committed during a game.

 

Hard to believe that the Steelers may have actually won that trade.

 

This is how to tackle...

 

Raiders wide receiver Antonio Brown is not the only NFL star who’s being forced to change helmets this season. Just the only one who’s threatening to quit football over it.

Patriots quarterback Tom Brady has also been forced to change helmets this season as the NFL eliminates certain helmet models that haven’t passed the rigorous safety testing that the league requires. But while Brady, like Brown, feels that his old helmet was comfortable and effective, he’s not going to fight the league over it.

“I’ve been experimenting with a couple different ones and I don’t really love the one I’m in, but I don’t really have much of a choice so I’m doing the best I can to work with it,” Brady said on WEEI. “My last helmet, I wore in four Super Bowls, so it was a pretty great helmet for me, and I hated to put it on the shelf, but that was what they said to do, so I’m dealing with it and working with something else.”

Brady’s response is the only rational one: Players are free to have their preferences, but ultimately the NFL and the NFL Players Association got together and set a standard for helmet safety, and if a player’s preferred model doesn’t make the cut, then that player has to change helmets. Whether applied to Brady, Brown or anyone else, the rule makes sense, and players need to accept it if they’re going to keep playing in the NFL.

(PFT)

 

i will say Brown's case about the helmet and his peripheral version isn't a bad one. he has a point. he's just going about it the wrong way.

 

the new helmet cuts off his peripheral vision i thought ? that's why he doesn't want to wear it ?

 

This is bad reporting. Fuck whoever wrote this. Not only do you not get to make that judgement, but it's the wrong one.

We can all think Antonio Brown is being ridiculous. But there's no reason he shouldn't be able to fight for use of a specific helmet - provided that the league is able to remove themselves of liability, in response. If he were to sign a waiver covering the liabilities that the NFL is trying to address with these helmets, I think he should be able to use the helmet of his choice.

Does that entail an interesting legal battle for the league, with huge future implications? Absolutely. But that doesn't mean it's irrational.

 

Cowboys Rumors: Dak Prescott Turned Down New Contract Worth $30M Annually

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Not if the league and the players association have already set the standard and ruled on it.

 

Cowboys have a big problem. Prescott isn’t worth anywhere near 30 million let alone to reject it. What the fuck is wrong with these players? To turn down an offer that’s way more than fair.

 

Bar was set with Carson Wentz getting $32 mil. I'm sure that's the baseline he and his agent are looking at.

 

For his body of work he should have been more than glad to sign that contract. The cowboys have too many stupid players. They all want to hold out.

 

Why would he sign for less than what he can get? Or should get, if Wentz is getting $32M?

What you're saying makes no sense. People should be happy to make $1 million a year; why wouldn't THAT be the going rate for players?

Market value is market value.

Issue isn't that Cowboys players are stupid; it's that the team has drafted really well in recent years (Tyron Smith, Travis Frederick, Zack Martin, Zeke Elliott, Dak Prescott, Byron Jones, Jaylon Smith, LVE), and eventually those players are either going to be paid market value or the team will have to cut bait and find cheaper replacements. Can't fault the players for trying to get what the market is set at, nor the team for trying to keep their young core together.

 

The system as it stands seems to be trending towards a fast approaching scale that is not sustainable. Someone has to be the highest paid, but everybody is gunning to top the top rated player in expenses. It just seems to be out of control, if not now, very soon, in my opinion.

 

Just for kicks...

League spokesman Brian McCarthy just tweeted out what amounts to a policy statement, as it pertains to Antonio Brown’s grievance and bluster about wearing his old helmet which hasn’t been certified by the National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment.

“The player can’t practice or play in games with equipment that’s not approved,” McCarthy wrote. “If he doesn’t play or practice he is in breach of his contract and doesn’t get paid. NFL policy is that Helmets have to be certified by NOSCAE. They don’t certify equipment that’s old[er] than 10 years.”

 

I fairness, you have to believe a crazy person for that statement to be true. It's certainly possible that Brown loses peripheral vision in another helmet, but literally every other receiver in the league uses another helmet, and I've never heard one mention an issue.

 

The NFL gets repeatedly hammered by ex-players and advocates of "player safety". But then they get hammered also by current players and fans anytime they try to implement or enforce anything that falls under the banner of trying to make the game safer.

Tons of other players are using the same helmet Brown is throwing a bitch fit over.

The NFL is 100% in the right to enforce a rule that requires players to wear an approved piece of equipment...especially when that piece of equipment is vital to player safety.

 

ok-fair enough but why else bitch about it ? is he really that big of an asshole ? or or does the new helmet partially block his peripheral vision? maybe the other wrs don't want to cause any trouble or get in bad with goodell ?