Now to start this article off, I want to emphasize the importance of safety for the players. It is a very important issue that must be addressed, but the way the league is doing it is wrong. There are many times a flag is called where the defender tackled someone with the perfect form. It is the basic way every middle schooler learns about the first day of football practice. Just lower the shoulder and put the head to the side to make sure not to spear the opposing player.

The way the NFL is trying to protect players is a good thing to do, but there is a line that needs to be put in. Like with any job there is always going to be some risk of injury. Now yes, football is a job that has a high risk of injury but that is known throughout. Every job can't take all the risk out and there are some jobs where risk is necessary. There is no way to prevent any injury from happening in any kind of work.

What the NFL has done was respond to the high media coverage asking to make football safer to play, but they took that too far where they have essentially changed how people can play the game. If a defender has to change the way he is tackling someone then there is going to be a higher risk of injury for that player because he has to change something that he has been perfecting since he was in middle school.

The NFL needs to take a look at the penalty issue because it is having a big effect on the outcome of games now. The refs are getting too eager to throw flags and at some point, there needs to be a mindset that they need to just let the best players and athletes in the sport play a little bit. Let them showcase the crazy athleticism that they contain within them.

I believe in the fact that the NFL is trying to help with CTE research because that is an important issue within the game today. With saying that, I do wish that NFL would please let football become football again because I think a lot of people would rejoice that they can sit down and watch a game without 20 flags being thrown.