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Just saw the cowardly sleazeball hit by Derek Barnett.  The NFL is still a dishonest joke when it comes to player safety.  It needs several reforms, including:

1. Allow replay officials to call targeting/personal foul penalties from the booth, say up to 15 minutes after the play (and can carry over into the next game if not called before the game is over.)  That would allow them to catch those fouls that on the field refs missed, and properly review it without stopping the game.  Yes, a penalty enforced 15 minutes later could really screw up the game for the dirty team.  Want to avoid that?  Don't commit dirty cheap shots.

2. Institute a minimum 3-game suspension (that can carry over to the next season when applicable) without pay.  Teams and players would have a much higher incentive to cut the thuggery out.

3.  You injure a player as a result of committing a targeting/personal foul, you sit out for as many games as they are out.  With an 80% pay cut.  But teams have to pay the other 80% into some sort of players injury fund.  If the victim has to retire, your career is over.  More incentive for both players and teams to cut the dirty crap out.  Use independent league physicians to monitor the victim's actual medical condition, so team's can't try to take advantage of the system (such as extended sitting out of a healed player to keep another team's star off the field, etc.)

 

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