Mike Mitchell is one of my favorite Bobcats. I like the article and quotes. Football is what it is. I find his comment on Shazier interesting. He thinks he got hurt by trying to hit a certain way. Very interesting. Something Inhad not considered.

There are been rules to make the games safer added for decades. Chop Blocks were outlawed a long time ago to protect D-lineman. Jack Lambert once thought that QBs were becoming so protected that they should "were dresses". I don't think the complaint that the game is "being sissified" is really a great reason to not make the game safer. People get used to the new rules and it really doesn't lessen it. Nobody argues for allowing chop blocks now.

Mitchell's argument is cut up into sound bits and it sound like is is just making the same old tired "the game is being sissified" argument which has never held back change. He really isn't. He is arguing that the NFL thinks that it can find a sweet spot allowing for a physical game that greatly reduces the number of concussions that probably does not exist. I'm guessing that he is correct in this regard. Hits like the one that knocked Dorian Brown out of the Akron game can be legislated out of it. Most hits that cause concussions probably can't without playing flag football. If it turns out that the game is proven to be dangerous enough as it is that may actually end up happening. I don't think that it is beyond the realm of possibility.

I remember Mark Shlareth talking live on ESPN few years about all that football had done for his family and that he was a "personal responsibility guy" who considered the risks and made his own decisions. Then he pulled out a video that was still for sale on the NFL website called "Moment of Impact" which was just a video of players getting blown up. His point was that the NFL was trying to have its cake and eat it too. It think this is pretty much the same point that Mike Mitchell is making.