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Originally Posted by Megatron96
Um, how long you been watching football? Because it's always been a strategy, since about 100 years ago. Hell, it was a strategy in HS when I put on a uniform.
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The defense has A gigantic incentive to play dirty and knock players out of games for avoidable hits. Way more so now that players are bigger, faster and with concussion protocols being strictly enforced. It is easier than ever to decide if you can’t beat mahomes, take your worst player out as a goon and knock him into the blue tent. Or to accept a 15 yard penalty to blast Justin Jefferson knowing that there’s a decent probability you can take him off the field for the rest of the game. Concussion protocols are relatively new. The frequency of these hip drop tackles is something newer. These are new elements of the game everyone is dealing with.
The likelihood of avoidable injury is way worse for offense players. And that is not something you want to incentivize in a game where a single qb is so damn important that that injury alone can destroy a whole season.