called the "herky-jerky" rule, as that is how the players are soon going to be required to play. Pretty soon, they're gonna need to stop before all tackles, do a quick analysis, and decide, using their on-field "force meter," just how hard to hit the opposing player to assure no injury - too soft (like about 33 out of 100), and the guy breaks tackles, and too hard / rough (like 67 out of 100 - next year it'll be 71/100 based on new analytics), and your team get's penalized (and it's your fault). Just a lot of decisions to make before contemplating bringing an offensive player down to the turf! Just who has that much body control, when flying around full tilt.

Joking aside, I'm all for doing what we can to avoid injuries, especially season or career ending ones, but players get those by just jogging on to the field without contact - just ask Aaron Rodgers. Football is violent for sure, and needs some penalizing for obvious attempt to injure, but it's not like boxing or MMA, where the express purpose of the sport is to give your opponent a brain injury.

But this new rule starts to strike at the very heart of the game, IMO, which requires split second reactions, not long contemplations and calculations before making the hit. In reality, if there's a play that is "20x more likely" to cause injuries, then it's likely the blind side QB sack - but we're not banning that. Or, are we going to eventually make it a rule that rushing the QB can only come from the non-blind side.

I just think it's getting out of hand - players have to be free to react, (knowing the potential consequences like we do with boxing and MMA), and without the constant fear of letting their team down with a key penalty, based on an inconsistent judgement call of a ref.