The Committee is exploring ways — including considering immediate ejections or suspensions — to take dangerous hits out of our game, Vincent’s note read in full as part of a series of tweets that laid out the NFL Competition Committee’s agenda for next week’s annual league meeting in Phoenix. We’ll communicate this to our coaches and players with video examples of flagrant hits that may result in ejection or suspension.
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Not that the NCAA was being proactive in 2008 (when it created the targeting penalty) and 2013 (when targeting began prompting ejections), but it’s ahead of the NFL on this one. And the college game already is having to amend its rule.
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As targeting ejections have doubled over three years, writes Jon Solomon of CBS Sports, the NCAA Football Rules Committee is looking at changing the replay standards so a targeting ejection only occurs if the penalty is confirmed. Currently, if replay doesn’t have enough evidence to confirm targeting but can’t rule it’s not targeting, the call on the field stands and the player gets ejected.
Instead, Cousins is apparently looking for an exit. A wave of key players is either looking with him, or already found it.
And after McCloughan’s name has been effectively smeared and his own exit path cleared, here Washington is again, embroiled in chaos at every level, fans in agony.
All of this come after they had not one, but two potential franchise quarterbacks on hand, in one way or another and at one time or another, ready to ride to the stars and take the franchise and its followers with them.
That was all in front of them five years ago. Now, it’s a smoldering wreck.