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...go ahead and ditch the three-point stance for linemen, except perhaps for very-short-yardage situations. "You wouldn't be firing out, I guess," says New York Jets guard Alan Faneca, initially skeptical when asked his thoughts about this change. "I'd buy that." Starting linemen upright in a "two-point" stance - two feet, no hands on the ground - would result in more blocking with the arms and hands...
...country's premier concussion experts and a co-founder of Sports Legacy Institute. That goes for running backs as well. Too often, they make a conscious decision to lower their head into a defender, hoping the forward lean will give them an extra yard. That defender's natural reaction? Go head-on as well. What if running backs weren't allowed to intentionally lead headfirst? The NFL is at least considering such a rule. "What concerns me is the runners," says McKay. "A lot of those hits are voluntary, where a player ducks his head and is in a position...
...written a book, Head Games: Football's Concussion Crisis. To illustrate his points, he pulls up a YouTube clip titled "Big Football Hit - Helmet to Helmet." In a drill supervised by the coaches, two 8-year-olds charge toward each other, heads down, as a woman yells, "Go! Go!" The tiny helmets collide - pop! After one kid gets knocked back to the ground, you can hear his whimpers. "Who the hell is teaching this?" asks Nowinski...
Bravery. Bravado. Machismo. These qualities create superior football players. But they can be poisonous. "You've got to change the culture, change the mentality," says Turley. "This whole archaic notion that football is everything, all these stupid things coaches go around saying, comparing football to the military...
...urged Silda Spitzer and Elin Nordegren, other wives of big shots who were caught coloring outside the lines, to walk away. But when People confirmed on Wednesday that Elizabeth and John Edwards had separated and that it was at Elizabeth's behest, there was much less of that "You go girl!" whooping from the grandstand. John's political foes may be happy with his misfortunes, but for Elizabeth's fans - and she used to have many - the news is more dismaying...