Targeting is a terrible rule that never should have been implemented. It is there to appease people that don't even watch the sport. The fact that a player can be tossed because he broke down for a tackle ahead of a ball carrier lowering themselves or making any kind of football move that changes where the defender makes contact with them is absurd and incongruous with how the sport is actually played. It is a very bad rule and blemishes the sport.
Also it blows my mind that anyone from the South could think CTE, or anything, is an existential threat to football. Football is the most popular sport in the US and its only getting more popular. NFL ratings are up. CFB ratings are up. In the South, in the Fall, its what we do on Friday Saturday and Sunday. This isn't changing. Science and technology will eventually solve for CTE, in the meantime we're still going to be playing and watching football.