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The NFL's Stupid Emphasis On Protecting the damn QB has cost a player his season


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Hayes tore ACL while avoiding putting weight on QB
 
 
By Kevin Patra
Around the NFL Writer
Published: Sept. 24, 2018 at 12:04 p.m. Updated: Sept. 24, 2018 at 07:00 p.m.
 
The Miami Dolphins' impressive defense suffered an injury blow in Sunday's win over the Oakland Raiders.
 
Defensive end William Hayes suffered a torn ACL, coach Adam Gase said Monday, relaying that the pass rusher was injured while trying to avoid putting his body weight on the quarterback during a second-quarter sack.
 
 
"It's going to be a tough one for us to swallow," the coach said, per Adam Beasley of the Miami Herald.
 
Hayes played well for the upstart Miami defense through three weeks, compiling two sacks and four tackles for the 3-0 Dolphins. Gase's defense owns depth at the edge-rusher position but will miss Hayes in the rotation. 2017 first-round pick Charles Harris should see an uptick in snaps following Hayes' injury.
 
With the NFL focusing on defenders not landing with their body weight on the quarterback this year, it's brutal that Hayes' season ends on a play in which he succeeded to do just that.
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This has been ongoing for quite some time (we talked about it in another thread).

 

The oligarch owners got tired of their highest-paid players (invariably QBs) being injured, so they demanded that the league office put rules and punishments in place to deter this. Well, it's making the game that they make money providing WORSE.

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