[sportscurmudgeon]

I am 100% confident that if a cheap shot layed Patrick Ramsey out for ten games or Clinton Portis for a month or Sean Taylor for seven games, the tone here would be very different. The perpitrator would be a sniveling punk and a coward who would not dare have done such a thing "face-to-face: or man-to-man". And it would certainly be the fault of the league and/or the referees who are clearly out to "get" the Redskins...

Folks, it is worth thinking about ways to minimize injuries to players because injuries are going to happen in the normal course of football games no matter what the rules. So if the rules can prevent a few extra injuries every year, it is worth considering.

Now, can the Competition Committee come up with bad rules? Of course they can. That's why they often "test" proposed NFL rules in NFL Europe for a while to see if they make sense.