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

by GoJags4218 on Mar 27, 2009 6:34 PM EDT

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."

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Gotta love our MoJo for standing out like that.

by GoJags4218 on Mar 27, 2009 6:36 PM EDT reply actions

one of the toughest players in the NFL....thats why I love him

Kyle

by kterr on Mar 27, 2009 6:44 PM EDT reply actions

Gotta love MJD

“I like when people are on the ground, you step on them.” AWESOME! We need some more Maurice Drew’s on our team. Epitomy of what fans want Jaguar football to be about. I love this guy.

by Blair72 on Mar 27, 2009 7:13 PM EDT reply actions

!!!!

hope goodell smarts up

surreal to be teal

by Surteal on Mar 27, 2009 7:23 PM EDT reply actions

Longer Games

I think with more rule changes on safety, the longer the games will become. With commercials and penalties already being ridiculous, the game will just be delayed more often. I think the players will still play the same way. Penalties will just go up. Heinz Ward will continue being Heinz Ward.

by Blair72 on Mar 27, 2009 8:01 PM EDT reply actions

that saying "when people are on the ground, you step on them"

should be painted in the locker room.

Everybody knows when he's coming to town
They're locking the doors
And they don't make a sound
People want him dead but he won't die yet
First he's got to live
With all the things that he did

by thatdamnLovett on Mar 27, 2009 8:45 PM EDT reply actions