Jones-Drew Joins Chorus Of Players Who Don’t Want Rules Changes

BasX · Mar 27, 2009

There’s an odd dynamic currently unfolding in the NFL. As owners prepare for an effort to raid the players’ pocketbooks at the bargaining table, the owners also are trying to protect the players. From themselves.

And plenty of players don’t like it.

Steelers safety Troy Polamalu said the NFL is becoming a “pansy” game during the 2008 season, before the league adopted a new wave of rules changes aimed at protecting player safety.

Earlier this week, free-agent safety Rodney Harrison complained about new rules aimed at, among other things, protecting quarterbacks from low hits and all players from helmet-to-helmet crackback blocks.

On Friday, Jaguars running back Maurice Jones-Drew echoed the criticism.

“It’s football, if you don’t want to get hurt, don’t play it,” Jones-Drew told Dan Patrick.

He also called the so-called “Hines Ward” rule “ridiculous.”

“We should get back to the way people played in the ’70s,” Jones-Drew said. “I like when people are on the ground, you step on them.”

We addressed the new rules for SportingNews.com earlier today. You can read our take right here.
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