Look, I am still holding out hope. The eternal optimist in me somehow still has a heartbeat, and he wants nothing more than to believe that the NFL is sacrificing what little watchability their preseason had in the first place as a desperate ploy to penalize players into magically changing the way they've been taught to play the sport since they first put on a helmet. The decision makers have given me very little reason to believe they know what the fuck they are doing, so this positivity might be wildly misplaced, but I'm just going to assume they are being sticklers for an objectively stupid rule now in a fruitless attempt to save both fans and players some literal and figurative headaches in the future.
That being said, it's with each passing day that I'm forced to question my glorified belief that the NFL is actually going to listen to its players and lighten up on this tone deaf attempt at trying to undue all the irreversible head injuries that they actively ignored for decades, and today is no different. Unless it was just the result of someone in the NFL offices getting an itchy trigger finger, which would make sense as their absolute favorite thing to do is take money out of their players' pockets, I simply can't stand for that tackle drawing a fine in professional football. Common bleepin' sense says that penalty itself was already 15 yards too costly, so putting a price tag on it is like charging someone backlogged rent as they get out of prison. There's really nothing Antwione Williams can do but laugh at how ridiculous this all is, but there will be no smiles if this level of stupidity continues into September.
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