New NFL Rule Has Ties to Brady

Franchise owners of the NFL have been meeting this week in Southern California to discuss a number of changes that will take place with the start of the 2009 season, and among all the items on this week’s to-do list was adaptations to the rulebook. An early report from the Washington Post concerning this week’s meetings discussed a list of four rule changes that were approved by the league regarding player safety issues, and at least one of these rules has NFL critics and bloggers in a frenzied state of array, as some of the proposed changes at hand have the outward appearance of being too safe for the almighty National Football League.

One of these rules especially has some of the football realm questioning this new list of changes, and it’s already starting to be known as the “Brady Rule.” Keeping in mind the way that Chiefs safety Bernard Polland wiped out Tom Brady in the 2008 season opener between Kansas City and New England, one of four new NFL rules states that defensive players who lunge to the ground after being knocked down by a blocker cannot then hand a blow to the quarterback if the play is still in motion. Of course, this newly-instated change has been hotly contested in the past couple days because of the knee-jerk reaction that has people muttering “but isn’t the defender supposed to try and sack the quarterback?,” but will the Brady Rule stick? We’re guessing so.

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