Rule May Have a Trickle Down Effect The NFL added a new element to its’ roughing the passer rule
this past offseason. The new rule
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a player will be penalized 15 yards if he applies all or most of his body weight
onto a quarterback and drives him to the ground.The rule was most likely added
as a knee jerk reaction to Aaron Rodger’s broken collarbone last year while
taking a sack from Chicago Bears pass rusher Shea McClellin. Tony Romo must be
feeling like a keg of O’Doul’s; worthless.Romo first broke his collarbone
against the Giants way back in 2010. He missed the final 10 games of that
season. Then in 2015 Romo missed seven games due to another collarbone fracture
in a loss to the Eagles. He returned for less than two games before re-injuring
it against the Panthers.The Cowboys finished 2015 with a 4-12 record. But the
league didn’t seem to care. They were the same types of hits Rodgers took in
2017, but no rule changes were made.Ironically, it’s Rodgers’ very own teammate,
Clay Matthews, who has been burned the most by the new rule. For three weeks in
a row, he has earned spirit-crushing roughing the passer penalties. The first
penalty definitely was a penalty, but the second and third penalties left most
scratching their heads. Even Aaron Rodgers, whom this rule was most likely
created to protect doesn’t agree with it.NFL fans have been incensed with the
extreme increase in roughing the passer penalties, which are on pace to be the
most since 2001. Sack artists like J.J. Watt feel the very same way.Pass rushers
are some of the most athletic players on the field. But what they are being
asked to do is simply impossible when taking the laws of physics into
account.Just this past weekend, an 11 year veteran and leader of the Dolphins
locker room, William Hayes, tore his right ACL while trying to avoid landing on
Derek Carr in the act of sacking him during a crucial third down stop.NFL
veterans like Richard Sherman and the Saints’ own Cam Jordan chimed in when they
heard the news of Hayes’ unfortunate injury.Dolphins’ head coach Adam Gase was
despondent following the game. “He will be out for the season,” Gase said. “He
tore his ACL on that sack. He was trying to not put body weight on the
quarterback. His foot got caught in the ground.” Hayes accounted for a third of
the Dolphins’ sacks this season and was a crucial run stop element during their
first 3-0 start in five years.Add Derek Carr to the growing list of quarterbacks
who don’t like this new rule even though it’s designed to protect them.Hayes’
teammate, Akeem Spence verbalized players’ frustrations perfectly. ”It sucks
because he was trying to protect the quarterback while still trying to make the
play, and it’s a double-edged sword,” Spence said. “What do you expect us to do?
We know the rule
Cheap Alex Anzalone Jersey , but we don’t know the ins and outs.”“And then I saw Clay Matthews, he had another one yesterday. What do you want the guy
to do? You gotta put the guy down. How much is too much weight? What technique
do you use? How do you go about it? We are still asking questions just like
y’all are. Let’s be honest, that’s a difficult rule to gauge.”Fans are
frustrated with the high number of penalties killing the momentum of games with
too many breaks in the action already. Defenders are frustrated at the
impossibility of the task they are being asked to perform. Hell, even a couple
of the highest paid quarterbacks have stated they don’t care for the rule
either.It seems Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott is the only player who is ready
to embrace the new rule. “I need to sit in the pocket and let them hit me more.
Simple as that.” I sincerely doubt the competition committee wanted quarterbacks
taking more hits in exchange for more valuable penalties, but that is exactly
what Prescott has proposed. Another play that stood out last week against the
Falcons was when multiple Saints defenders were in hot pursuit of quarterback
Matt Ryan. Ryan appeared to give himself up close to the sideline after
scrambling out of the pocket. The defenders immediately halted their pursuit.
Then Ryan underhand tossed the ball up field and the play resulted in an
incomplete pass instead of a four yard loss like it would have been if the
Saints defenders didn’t appear to lay off Ryan. If quarterbacks around the
league start pulling this trick, we may never see another sack.If a sack becomes
more rare because of this rule, could pass rushers and sack artists become
devalued? Aaron Donald and Khalil Mack just signed extensions worth more than
$20 million per year to do little else than attack quarterbacks. Cam Jordan is
the 18th highest paid edge rusher in the league and he makes a cool $11 million
per year. It’s a valuable position that is paid for harassing quarterbacks. If
they can’t do their job without costing their teams countless first downs, I
wonder if teams will still want to pay them top dollar. Clay Matthews is paid
$13.2 million per year to sack the quarterback, and two of the prettiest sacks
he’s ever registered have instead cost the Packers 30 yards in
penalties.Matthews had this to say following his latest penalty against
Washington quarterback Alex Smith. ”Of course, like I said last week, NFL’s
gonna come back, say I put my body on him, but that’s a football play. I hit him
from the front, got my head across, wrapped up. I’ve never heard of anybody
tackling somebody without any hands.”“When he gives himself up as soon as you
hit him, your body weight’s going to go on him. I think we’re looking for the
hits that took Aaron [Rodgers] out last year, that little extra. If I wanted to
hurt him, I could have. I could’ve put some extra on him. That’s football.”The
spirit of this rule has clearly been lost on the fans, players
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they established the rule. Usually the league doesn’t roll back rules after
making them, but in the case of touchdown celebrations, they did exactly that by
loosening the previously draconian laws of having fun after scoring.The league
has released a statement revealing that it will not change the rule mid
season.Let’s hope the league does take a second look at this rule this offseason
and roll it back to when the players were just playing hard nosed football.
Because if they don’t, Tony Romo just might come out of retirement. The New
Orleans Saints have placed tight end Michael Hoomanawanui and veteran running
back Shane Vereen on injured reserve, and cut veteran reserve quarterback Tom
Savage while trimming their roster down to the regular-season maximum.The
Saints, who announced the moves Saturday, also traded defensive tackle Devaroe
Lawrence to Cleveland for "future considerations" and waived four draft choices
from the past two years.The 2018 draft choices waived were: offensive tackle
Rick Leonard, a fourth rounder out of Florida State; defensive back Natrell
Jamerson, a fifth-rounder out of Wisconsin; and defensive back Kamrin Moore, a
sixth-rounder out of Boston College. Defensive end Al-Quaddin Muhammad, a 2017
sixth-rounder out of Miami, also was waived.Younger players who remain on the
53-player roster for now include second-year tight end Dan Arnold, second-year
offensive lineman Cameron Tom, and running back Boston Scott, a 2018 sixth-round
pick out of Louisiana Tech.Arnold, a 6-foot-6 converted receiver out of
Wisconsin-Platteville, is entering his second pro season after spending last
year on injured reserve.The 5-foot-6, 203-pound Scott, who grew up in the New
Orleans area
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team at a time when it needs running back depth due to Mark Ingram's four-game
suspension to start the season because of the Pro Bowler's positive test for a
banned substance. One of Scott's chief competitors for a role in the return game
was veteran receiver Brandon Tate, who was among the Saints' final cuts.Another
veteran receiver let go was Michael Floyd, who was brought in near the beginning
of training camp as he tries to bounce back from a series of off-the-field
setbacks that derailed his once-promising career with Arizona.New Orleans is
back to having just one defensive back named Marcus Williams on the roster after
cutting the veteran cornerback by that name only weeks after signing him as a
free agent. The former New York Jet and Houston Texan intercepted a pass for a
touchdown during the Saints' preseason victory over the Chargers in Los Angeles,
but that wasn't enough to keep him around.The younger Marcus Williams, a 2017
second-round draft choice out of Utah, is projected to start at free safety as
he seeks to bury bad memories of his missed tackle of Vikings receiver Stefon
Diggs on the last play of last season's playoff loss in Minnesota.The Saints
also parted ways with their 2015 second-round pick, Hau'oli Kikaha, an edge pass
rusher who showed promise as a rookie but who missed the 2016 season after
tearing his left anterior cruciate ligament for the third time. He came back
from that injury to make the team last season but struggled to work his way into
the regular playing rotation and was a healthy scratch several times.Other
players cut by the Saints were: linebackers Jayrone Elliott, KeShun Freeman and
Colton Jumper; defensive tackles Jay Bromley, Woodrow Hamilton and Henry
Mondeaux; defensive ends Alex Jenkins and George Johnson; defensive backs
Sharrod Neasman, Linden Stephens and Robert Nelson; receivers Tanner McAvoy and
Keith Kirkwood; offensive linemen Josh LeRibeus, Nate Wozniak, Michael Ola,
Andrew Tiller, Landon Turner and Don Barclay; tight ends Garrett Griffin, John
Phillips and Deon Yelder; quarterback J.T. Barrett; and running back Jonathan
Williams.Players cut by New Orleans could potentially wind up on the club's
10-player practice squad.
