(01-27-2018, 03:07 PM)DragonFury Wrote: Oh for god sake, you lot clearly have no idea what you're talking about. You're all talking about intention and crown of the helmet when neither of those things are at all relevant to the penalty or the fine. The rules are very clear: if you hit a defenseless receiver helmet to helmet you get flagged and you get fined. The CBA even stipulates the exact amount of the fine. It doesn't matter that Church didn't intent to hit Gronkowski helmet to helmet or that he didn't lead with the crown of the helmet, what matter is that Church's helmet hit Gronkowski's helmet while Gronkowski was clearly still a defenseless receiver.

With respect, rules or not.. everyone is still entitled to an opinion.

Regardless of how the rules are written, I personally think that intent (or lack of) SHOULD come in to it. No two incidents are the same unless there's malice involved. Sure, players can be reckless, but when all is said and done, the game is played at such a high pace that some things are unavoidable. That's where, I believe, that everything should be judged per incident and not a blanket rule across the board.

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