15:40 Yes Daz. Some QBs were/are notorious for "getting their receivers killed" by throwing the ball and leading them into a potential big hit. Used to be a time in the NFL that receivers' toughness was judged by their willingness to go across the middle, in heavy traffic, to catch a pass.
Hitting high is fine, it's about helmet to helmet and if they're hit too hard from a blind side, among other things. Rules have changed based on injury statistics for different types of collisions.
It's not about "helmet to helmet". Defenders cannot hit defenseless receivers in the head, regardless of which part of the defenders body does the hitting. Once the receiver is no longer defenseless, helmet to helmet is legal so long as neither player lowers their head and initiates contact with the crown of their helmet. If they do initiate contact with the crown of their helmet, it doesn't matter what part of the opponent they hit, it's a penalty. "Helmet to helmet" is a term made up by commentators who don't know the actual rules -- looking at you Cris Collinsworth.
@@IEVISCERATEU Man I'm old. We.use to show off the opposing team's helmet colors that we had on ours. We honestly were taught to kill one another (late 90s.)- not literally, but this was the day of huge neckrolls before all of this.
@@Christian-vq8rd I agree...my brother was playing tackle football since he was 6 (90s) in TX..when he started high-school in NC..no matter what tackle he made, they would tell him he couldn't do that. He was like "how am I supposed to tackle? By hugging him or giving him a handshake?" Boy has the times changed 🙄
@@Christian-vq8rd I still have the sticker decals off my helmets and can point out what color team the streaks came from haha The old glory days of a now 40 year old lol
If a receiver doesn't extend his arms far enough to catch the ball because he's afraid of the hit that's coming, they used to say he has alligator arms. Haven't heard that in a while though.
Played for 3 years growing up. It's always the one you don't see that will knock you flying through the air. One time a dude from the opposite side of the field caught me slipping after a double reverse. As I pointed at the runner and yelled "reverse!" a blocker I hadn't seen just tore through me from my left shoulder blind spot. He was shorter than me and running full speed, and when I slowed down to change direction, he caught me with my feet off the ground as I made a shuffle step. The result was me, a defensive end, getting elevated and cartwheeled in the air with my feet in the night sky. If you're lucky, you get to hear and comprehend the hoots and hollers from the sidelines. If you're not lucky, you don't hear anything for a couple minutes. It's a tough game, we start playing it full-contact at 10, and the helmet gives you a false sense of durability that encourages more confident aggression. By the time we get to high school, we've already had 3-4 years of competitive full-tilt combat football training and experience...and then it gets REAL serious. It's no wonder why so many of us end up with wrecked bodies by the time we enter the job market. Football culture in America, particularly in Texas, the South, and the East, is so pervasive and immersive that any tall, strong young boy is often casually or overtly groomed for the game. Whole families play for generations at the same schools sometimes.
The idea of a hospital pass is very well known and receivers and running backs will definitely let a QB know if they’re putting their passes in really dangerous spots.
When I was in England to watch the Philadelphia Eagles play, the taxi cab driver told me that “American Football is rubbish”. Hopefully he watches this and realize that just because we use pads, the hits are absolutely brutal.
@1FORREST1 It's more like fighting than anything. The pads make it worse in the long run, since you don't get injured enough to stop until its too late.
also for them to know, right now there pre season games going on but those usually dont have their first line players on the field as they aren't important games.
Most of these were followed up with a penalty flag. The players now can be ejected and to top that off, they get a call the next day informing them they just donated thousands of dollars to their favorite charity.
I have never agreed more strongly with an internet stranger. The Cowboys are trash, even though they currently employ the Golden God that is Kellen Moore.
@@HookedonChronics i don't think it says anything about me, I don't live n the area so I'm not loyal to teams from that area so the name meant a lot! Once u get rid of the name u lose the 80+ yrs of history and u start over a completely new team, I'm not a WFT fan, not a redwings fan or red wolves or whatever else they come up with, I'm a Redskins fan! Thanks to overly sensitive ppl like u that get ur poor little feelings hurt over a name (that majority of native Americans had no problem with btw) that history is gone and I have no team to cheer for so I don't watch
On many of these hits, the guy was KOd. One sure-tell sign someone is KO'd is when they are laying stiff on their back and have their hands up by their chest like a boxer with his gloves up. It's a common phenomenon when someone gets KOd.
For your question about who is the most “look out for that guy” person on the defense, office bloke Daz is right, it’s mostly everyone and that’s why coaches always say to “keep your head on a swivel” because anyone can come from anywhere.
You can often tell if they're knocked out by the "fencing pose." Its some kind of vital response when people get knocked out but its where both arms go rigid, usually one or both arms up to cover the torso. Other one will sometimes go straight out
I like the videos with the original sound better than the ones with music. I think when you hear the crash of the pads and the 'ooohhh!' of the crowds, it gives you a better sense of just how hard these hits are.
Strange thing about hits, those who played can confirm, often times the ones that seem so brutal on film don't really hurt that bad. And, somehow the ones that don't look like much on film are the ones that wreck you.
Facts. I've been completely blind sided, and left out to hang from my qb throwing hospital passes. That shit didn't hurt nearly as much as some hits taken that looked weak. Football logic
Receivers will sometimes get edgy with a QB who lays them out with a pass, especially over the middle. A really good QB can sometimes throw it where it will lead the receiver away from a big hit, or throw it low where the receiver has to go down for it and avoid getting cut in half.
↑ Agreed. A good QB should KNOW where to throw so that you don't get destroyed like that. If a QB has a habit of putting their receivers in bad positions, it will get talked about in the locker room (I'm sure loudly, and in front of everyone).
12:20 responding to Dave, more often than not its bcuz 1 has braced for the impact while the other is trying to catch the ball or trying to avoid the hit, offensively most the time u aren't looking to deliver a hit when defensively u r always looking to deliver a hit, so the defender looking to run through u when the offensive player often looking to avoid it or at the very least isn't looking to deliver a big hit
We have the same concept of hospital passes in American football. Usually a throw across the middle of the field where the linebackers and strong safeties are (the hardest hitters normally)
I saw a college player who been ejected twice for "targeting" (helmet to helmet) and the other teams always stayed away from him. You get a reputation for being brutal and extra rough and people don't mess with you as much.
As qn American that played this sport from the time I was 4 until 20 years old. You really don't think about getting hurt or being careful or any of that,you just play and you hit as hard as you can and make sure you're not the one backing down
5:35 it looked high because it was high. Based on the footage I’m guessing that was from the 90’s when a lot of these rules about hitting people weren’t used yet. Brutal.
The first time I got a double hit, one second apart from different angles...I knew I had no future in the sport. I had no air in my lungs and your bones and muscles are pulled in different directions with unimaginable force. The last thing on your mind at that point is the ball.
One time I was on the return team for an onside kick. The kicker kicked a perfect ball, it literally couldn't have had a better bounce. It bounced like 10 feet in the air and I had to jump to catch the ball. The thing was there was like 4 guys coming full speed so my reaction was to catch the ball and turn around mid-air. I got smashed but I held on to the ball and we won the game :)
That hit at 9:35 messed him up for his career. He came in as one of the best in the league. He never played another complete season and retired after a few years from constant migraines.
The general rule of tackling as any contact above the head or neck area of a "defenseless" player is an automatic penalty. Or if you lunge toward another player with the crown (top) of your own helmet it is also considered a penalty. Furthermore you cannot tackle low while another defender is tackling the same player high. All of which are penalties.
QB’s are usually leading receivers on a planned route so they throw where they should be in that route. So sometimes there’s no avoiding it but other times yeah they throw to you when there’s obvious threats to the receiver and hope for the best. Which can be a bad day for him when he’s just focused on bringing the ball in
Ya back when I played and to this day when a QB puts it in a bad spot where he's leading the receiver in to a hit we always called it "hanging him out to dry", just leaving him vunerable to get blasted.
(American) Football is about to be on us friends. I would LOVE it if the lads tuned into the season and made content around that. Convert all three of these guys to being Packers fans!
There's a thing called "alligator arms" in football. When a receiver runs down the field and the quarterback floats the ball out to him and the receiver hears the footsteps coming, his arms suddenly get really short as he anticipates the hit.
You guys should definitely watch "The Rules of the NFL" it a 6 min video on Nihn Ly TH-cam channel. Does a great job with making the basics easy to digest. Edit: And he's a brit to boot lol.
One of the biggest newer rule is hits on defenseless receivers. Receiver going up for a ball and can't protect himself and you can't blast him. Many of these hits are on defenseless receivers
I played WR in high school !! Getting hit SUCKS !!! Also a receiver has to touch the ball before the defensive player hits them or it's pass interference
The Buffalo Bills have the only English player in the NFL on their team (Christian Wade). Plus, they've never won a Super Bowl, and are suppose to be pretty good this year. One of you guys should become a Bills fan and join the Bills "Mafia". They have some of the craziest, passionate, loyal fans in all of sports.
I had a homie who played Football his whole life until he went to prison for murder and he told me that when they played, (at least in high school) there goal was to get an ambulance to come and take someone out of the stadium and be like 'That was me, I did that'.
Your teams shouldn’t be picked at random, watch the season and/or come visit the USA then choose. I ended up getting drunk with a Welshman in Japan while a Swans match was on… it was probably the worst sports investment of my life but 15 years later and I’m still in the Jack Army.
I’m a 49ers fan purely because as a kid, all my bullies were Raiders fans and absolutely hated the 49ers. I’ll also root for the Ravens and the Greenbay Packers since they were playing the first game I ever watched. All terrible ways to pick teams. 😂
I see some footage with my hometown team, the Indianapolis Colts! I actually live really close to their training center. I can drive there from my apartment in 2-3 minutes. I’ve seen some of the players at nearby stores when go shopping but I don’t bother them to get autographs because I respect their privacy. Go Colts!
Before the development of better padding and rule changes. There were 15 players killed in just one season of college football during the early 1900s. One of them was Teddy Roosevelt’s nephew. Just a random fact for you on how forceful the game is. His son also lost his front teeth playing as well.
It's much worse than that. Straight off wiki: "Between 1890 and 1905, 330 college athletes died as a direct result of injuries sustained on the football field. These deaths could be attributed to the mass formations and gang tackling that characterized the sport in its early years." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_football#Violence,_formation_of_NCAA
Have you heard of “ alligator arms? “ it’s a receiver going across the middle full speed, see’s a defensive back. Decides discretion is the better part of valor, pulls up, covers up to not die.
That was Nate Clements giving him an attitude adjustment. I will never forget that hit. I hated Michigan my entire life (LSU fan) and being a Bills fan I hated Brady the second he stepped on the field. That hit made me jump through my ceiling but I am pretty sure that hit also gave us 20 years of bad karma against him. lol
When the quarterback throws the ball to middle or a little hight and the receiver gets destroyed , they call it hanging the reciever out to dry , and they hate it
What you said about receivers getting snippy with their quarterbacks for throwing the suicidal passes over the middle is true. There have been a few QBs that have gotten a reputation for it over the years. I can hardly blame them for getting mad. Some of those hits in the middle are absolutely brutal.
On top of that, the mental affects after getting hit so much, sometimes receivers would pull up to avoid hits, or “alligator arms “ was nickname, even if he wasn’t going to be hit, and costs the team & ultimately himself if he became known as unreliable receiver, causing him to be cut from a team & other teams not willing to take him or if they do it would be at very low salary. This is worse case scenario but has lead some players out of the game/ early retirement.
@@JKM395 Your Welcome. I was just trying to add on to what you said, & how it can ruin a career, other then the possibility of getting seriously injured. And then thought of a WR from Philadelphia Eagles in 2000’s this actually happened to. Forget his name, but after a few hits, you could see his fear anytime going down field, not even through middle of field & he thought a Safety was coming, it was just embarrassing for him, and think it was 2 years later he was completely out of NFL. 2-3 times it was against Washington when Sean Taylor, my favorite player (RIP Sean Taylor) was there; he had that affect on many receivers.
@@JKM395 Yes it’s normal human behavior, even among the strongest & toughest guys to ever play this sport. I just watched “ Dark Side of Football” on Vice Network (probably clips or whole show on here?) and QB Tim Couch when drafted for Cleveland’s new team in 1999 had this happen as well. No one will ever mistake him for the best QB, but the team was not built right, and the guy just got beat up so much, it ruined his career. Just wanted to give example how this can happen to guys in all key offensive positions (anyone who carry’s or even touches football)
NFL has changed the rules: No helmet to helmet, No grabbing the back of the jersey to pull the player sown, and the QB runs and when he starts his slide you can't hit him. Besides to avoid injuries then men make MILLIONS today. Running back avg 3.5 years playing, remember they run/catch the ball aprox 25 times a game. When I was young all that stuff and more was allowed. But players were 20-30 lbs lighter.
its not even just the hits, its the way they land as well...extra whiplash to the already given whiplash. oof, thats why football is the one of the few sports where I don't complain about players getting whatever contracts they can. their career can be over in a hit
You guys are awesome. Many, many rules have been changed for the safety of the game. Wonder if you ever saw a hockey game and can figure out why the rule book in hockey when from 72 pages to over 200. Small hint it has something to do with the Broad Street Bullies, as they were named. GL
Back n the day they had a segment called JACKED UP, highlights of all the biggest hits of the week, this was b4 they told everyone that banging ur heads together for years could have serious consequences on ur mental health later on n life... but it was a fun segment to watch
Hey guys try and find some compilation videos of the steel curtain Pittsburgh Steelers, the purple people eater Minnesota Vikings, the 85 Chicago Bears, the 2000 Baltimore ravens, the 2002 Tampa Bay buccaneers, and the legion of boom Seattle Seahawks, these defenses were the most feared and brutal defensive units in the history of professional football. you won’t be disappointed.
A lot of these hits are illegal now when they would have been ok a decade or so ago. After it became common knowledge that a lot of retired NFL players were suffering severe neurological problems, the NFL decided it had to try and at least make it look like they cared about the health of its players. I'd be interested to see what the research says in 10-20 years about whether these rule changes are doing anything to reduce instances of CTE.
It's all about being planted to the ground and the runner has his legs in the air on his toes. To set up and be planted you have 10 times the leverage as somebody running
As someone who has played football for 15+ years there are a couple of these a game i am lucky enough to play the safest position on the field but it still can happen to anyone
And the biggest thing you learn playing football growing up is "bring the hammer". If you shy from contact you're gonna get hurt. If you initiate contact you will win 90% of the time even if they are bigger.
Hitting someone up high is an illegal hit but some defenders will do it anyway to dissuade opponents from trying to come across the middle of the field later in the game
Would be cool to see you guys react to biggest truck hits in the nfl or stiff arms. Maybe even Just derick henry hes a beast! You get to see people with the ball hit back lol
You'll have the players that are conscious of the the big hit, those are the ones that get "alligator arms" and miss the ball to protect themselves. From "pee-wee"(6-10yrs) football to college you're coached to ignore it or else your manhood is called into question. It looks great when you can catch it and bounce right back up, but it takes its toll. 15 confirmed concussions and countless others ignored for the "Team". Great sport, loved every bit about it, just wished we had the protocols(and science) that they have now. Because right now, feeling 50 when you're 35 isn't fun.
On defense, the farther from the line of scrimmage you go, the lighter and quicker the players are, generally speaking. And the farther back in time you go, the bigger the shoulder pads (till you get to around 1960).
OK guys, here are the teams each of you should pick. Dave: Cleveland Browns, they are ginger in color, and should be in the playoffs this year if not super bowl. Mike: i agree with Daz the Pittsburg Steelers is your team to follow, and they play the browns twice because same division, so only one can go all the way to the big game. and Daz you should be following Green Bay, they play both teams once, and is in the other league, so if any of the teams make it, could have one of you on each side of the big game. but I make this choice because I am huge Browns fan, been waiting for the year for them, and if they continue what they did last year, they will go very far if not all the way. Dave push for this, and you will be proud to have them as your team to follow.
Hits to the head are not expressly illegal. The rule is that a defender cannot hit a *"defenseless receiver"* in the head. A receiver is defenseless until they have caught the ball and made a "football move" -- they take a step, juke, change direction, etc. After a catch and football move, the receiver is now a ball carrier, and ball carriers *can* be hit up high. It's worth noting that in addition to the rule protecting defenseless receivers, defenders can never initiate contact by lowering and leading with their own helmet, and officials can call an unnecessary roughness penalty at their own discretion. Usually, unnecessary roughness is called when something truly unnecessary occurs, i.e. a hit after the play is over, or a big hit on someone not actively involved in the play, but it's sometimes used if an officials deems excessive force was used by a defender. A lot of the plays here were illegal, hence all the flags, but plenty of them were legal too. Some of them were even incorrectly flagged in game, for example: 3:50 and 11:23. They were very hard hits, but the defenders led with their shoulders and hit the receivers in the chest after the ball had arrived. They were textbook legal hits, but the officials are humans and when they see very hard contact they sometimes reactively throw a flag.
The only thing that gets me is when guys get called for targeting when all they did was run in to make the tackle and the ball carrier is the one who lowers the head and ends up getting hit in his head cause he lowered his head and then somehow the defensive guy is the one who gets penalized.
You guys should do Bo Jacksons highlights. Dude was leading the league in rushing yards for the NFL the same time he was leading the MLB in home runs. Herschel walker is another y’all should check out. Sometimes it would take 6 people to tackle him.
Its called the exact same thing in american football. "Hospital pass" is where the QB throws a bad pass for the receiver and puts him in danger of getting hit defenselessly if thats a word.
Ok my suggestion react to John Randle undrafted defensive tackle fir the MN Vikings who made it into the Hall of Fame. He knew how to get in your head, and was so good. Only time a QB has been ejected (that I'm aware of) because he got in his head and he reacted without thinking.
Depends on the scenario. If the QB was taking a shot to the ribs as they were throwing - putting the ball off path in return - the receiver can't really blame the QB and they both got shat on because the OL didn't do its job.
I have a feeling you guys would love Troy Polamalu highlights. He just got inducted into the Hall Of Fame and is one of the most likeable football players ever
If you guys watch football this year you should be Seahawks fans. They're pretty much the only team in the northwest part of the country. They're kind of the team for states and people that don't have a team. They have a big following in Australia and Europe.
15:40 Yes Daz. Some QBs were/are notorious for "getting their receivers killed" by throwing the ball and leading them into a potential big hit. Used to be a time in the NFL that receivers' toughness was judged by their willingness to go across the middle, in heavy traffic, to catch a pass.
One catch in the middle could be your last game ever.
The Kam Chancellor hit at 06:45 was completely legal and a GREAT hit.
Hitting high is fine, it's about helmet to helmet and if they're hit too hard from a blind side, among other things. Rules have changed based on injury statistics for different types of collisions.
Yeah. That use to be when you'd tee off and kill them.
It's not about "helmet to helmet". Defenders cannot hit defenseless receivers in the head, regardless of which part of the defenders body does the hitting. Once the receiver is no longer defenseless, helmet to helmet is legal so long as neither player lowers their head and initiates contact with the crown of their helmet. If they do initiate contact with the crown of their helmet, it doesn't matter what part of the opponent they hit, it's a penalty. "Helmet to helmet" is a term made up by commentators who don't know the actual rules -- looking at you Cris Collinsworth.
@@IEVISCERATEU Man I'm old. We.use to show off the opposing team's helmet colors that we had on ours. We honestly were taught to kill one another (late 90s.)- not literally, but this was the day of huge neckrolls before all of this.
@@Christian-vq8rd I agree...my brother was playing tackle football since he was 6 (90s) in TX..when he started high-school in NC..no matter what tackle he made, they would tell him he couldn't do that. He was like "how am I supposed to tackle? By hugging him or giving him a handshake?" Boy has the times changed 🙄
@@Christian-vq8rd I still have the sticker decals off my helmets and can point out what color team the streaks came from haha The old glory days of a now 40 year old lol
If a receiver doesn't extend his arms far enough to catch the ball because he's afraid of the hit that's coming, they used to say he has alligator arms. Haven't heard that in a while though.
Played for 3 years growing up. It's always the one you don't see that will knock you flying through the air. One time a dude from the opposite side of the field caught me slipping after a double reverse. As I pointed at the runner and yelled "reverse!" a blocker I hadn't seen just tore through me from my left shoulder blind spot. He was shorter than me and running full speed, and when I slowed down to change direction, he caught me with my feet off the ground as I made a shuffle step. The result was me, a defensive end, getting elevated and cartwheeled in the air with my feet in the night sky.
If you're lucky, you get to hear and comprehend the hoots and hollers from the sidelines. If you're not lucky, you don't hear anything for a couple minutes. It's a tough game, we start playing it full-contact at 10, and the helmet gives you a false sense of durability that encourages more confident aggression. By the time we get to high school, we've already had 3-4 years of competitive full-tilt combat football training and experience...and then it gets REAL serious. It's no wonder why so many of us end up with wrecked bodies by the time we enter the job market. Football culture in America, particularly in Texas, the South, and the East, is so pervasive and immersive that any tall, strong young boy is often casually or overtly groomed for the game. Whole families play for generations at the same schools sometimes.
The idea of a hospital pass is very well known and receivers and running backs will definitely let a QB know if they’re putting their passes in really dangerous spots.
When I was in England to watch the Philadelphia Eagles play, the taxi cab driver told me that “American Football is rubbish”. Hopefully he watches this and realize that just because we use pads, the hits are absolutely brutal.
Hopefully no tip for him.
@1FORREST1 It's more like fighting than anything. The pads make it worse in the long run, since you don't get injured enough to stop until its too late.
That's what makes these hits so high impact is that you have to go 100% all the time. If you're not going all out, you're gonna get hurt
In hockey we call it a suicide pass but it's when you lead your player into a monster hit
In American football it's called a hospital pass.
@@reecewood155 Same for rugby.
If Dave and Mike r going to watch football just let them watch this season then they can pick which team they like
Yeah, I think they should do that too. I hope they don't pick a bandwagon team like the Chiefs or Buccaneers.
I doubt they will lol
@@jahnj2523 maybe not, but if not then what point is there n picking a team
also for them to know, right now there pre season games going on but those usually dont have their first line players on the field as they aren't important games.
Just not the Steelers, Eagles, Football Team or Giants lol I'm cool with everyone else
At 10:40 when the receivers arms are locked at 90 degrees that usually indicates they’ve been knocked out.
Most of these were followed up with a penalty flag. The players now can be ejected and to top that off, they get a call the next day informing them they just donated thousands of dollars to their favorite charity.
Mike should not b a cowboys fan, NOBODY should b a cowboys fan!
I have never agreed more strongly with an internet stranger. The Cowboys are trash, even though they currently employ the Golden God that is Kellen Moore.
@@brandonhall5615 I was a Redskins fan so naturally I hate Dallas... don't watch football anymore since they changed the name but still hate Dallas
@@e-reptiledysfunction2243 says a lot about you that you no longer watch football because they changed their shitty name.
I'm a Cowboy's fan who hates Dallas.
@@HookedonChronics i don't think it says anything about me, I don't live n the area so I'm not loyal to teams from that area so the name meant a lot! Once u get rid of the name u lose the 80+ yrs of history and u start over a completely new team, I'm not a WFT fan, not a redwings fan or red wolves or whatever else they come up with, I'm a Redskins fan! Thanks to overly sensitive ppl like u that get ur poor little feelings hurt over a name (that majority of native Americans had no problem with btw) that history is gone and I have no team to cheer for so I don't watch
Glad to have made it back on ur channel! Luv the nfl and sport reactions
On many of these hits, the guy was KOd. One sure-tell sign someone is KO'd is when they are laying stiff on their back and have their hands up by their chest like a boxer with his gloves up. It's a common phenomenon when someone gets KOd.
I think people know what a knockout looks like mate, don’t think that needed explaining 😂😂😂
For your question about who is the most “look out for that guy” person on the defense, office bloke Daz is right, it’s mostly everyone and that’s why coaches always say to “keep your head on a swivel” because anyone can come from anywhere.
You can often tell if they're knocked out by the "fencing pose." Its some kind of vital response when people get knocked out but its where both arms go rigid, usually one or both arms up to cover the torso. Other one will sometimes go straight out
I like the videos with the original sound better than the ones with music. I think when you hear the crash of the pads and the 'ooohhh!' of the crowds, it gives you a better sense of just how hard these hits are.
Strange thing about hits, those who played can confirm, often times the ones that seem so brutal on film don't really hurt that bad. And, somehow the ones that don't look like much on film are the ones that wreck you.
Facts. I've been completely blind sided, and left out to hang from my qb throwing hospital passes. That shit didn't hurt nearly as much as some hits taken that looked weak. Football logic
I always found the hit didn't hurt until you hit the ground. Ground can be the real cause of pain.
If you go with the momentum it takes you and lessen the wreaking. Meeting the momentum and fighting against it will only wreck you.
NFL Brutal hits...Joe Theismann , "hold my beer."
I was told "you can be the hammer or you can be the nail." And that's the mentality.
Receivers will sometimes get edgy with a QB who lays them out with a pass, especially over the middle. A really good QB can sometimes throw it where it will lead the receiver away from a big hit, or throw it low where the receiver has to go down for it and avoid getting cut in half.
↑ Agreed. A good QB should KNOW where to throw so that you don't get destroyed like that.
If a QB has a habit of putting their receivers in bad positions, it will get talked about in the locker room (I'm sure loudly, and in front of everyone).
12:20 responding to Dave, more often than not its bcuz 1 has braced for the impact while the other is trying to catch the ball or trying to avoid the hit, offensively most the time u aren't looking to deliver a hit when defensively u r always looking to deliver a hit, so the defender looking to run through u when the offensive player often looking to avoid it or at the very least isn't looking to deliver a big hit
Omfg I missed the nfl reactions from y’all
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We have the same concept of hospital passes in American football. Usually a throw across the middle of the field where the linebackers and strong safeties are (the hardest hitters normally)
Few of these were also in the "Here Comes the Boom!" vid.
I saw a college player who been ejected twice for "targeting" (helmet to helmet) and the other teams always stayed away from him. You get a reputation for being brutal and extra rough and people don't mess with you as much.
As qn American that played this sport from the time I was 4 until 20 years old. You really don't think about getting hurt or being careful or any of that,you just play and you hit as hard as you can and make sure you're not the one backing down
I thought Dave already had a team. He's been wearing a Browns helmet every day on the channel since the beginning.
It’s all about them Broncos 🔥🔥
Chiefs always welcome new fans. You won't regret following them.
Remember when Kansas City booed a “moment of unity”?
5:35 it looked high because it was high. Based on the footage I’m guessing that was from the 90’s when a lot of these rules about hitting people weren’t used yet. Brutal.
The first time I got a double hit, one second apart from different angles...I knew I had no future in the sport. I had no air in my lungs and your bones and muscles are pulled in different directions with unimaginable force. The last thing on your mind at that point is the ball.
I love the content! Greatest Interceptions would be a good reaction as well.
One time I was on the return team for an onside kick. The kicker kicked a perfect ball, it literally couldn't have had a better bounce. It bounced like 10 feet in the air and I had to jump to catch the ball. The thing was there was like 4 guys coming full speed so my reaction was to catch the ball and turn around mid-air. I got smashed but I held on to the ball and we won the game :)
That hit at 9:35 messed him up for his career. He came in as one of the best in the league. He never played another complete season and retired after a few years from constant migraines.
well done on a quality vid, guys!
NFL Pre-season started this weekend. Proper games start Sep 9th.
The general rule of tackling as any contact above the head or neck area of a "defenseless" player is an automatic penalty. Or if you lunge toward another player with the crown (top) of your own helmet it is also considered a penalty. Furthermore you cannot tackle low while another defender is tackling the same player high. All of which are penalties.
QB’s are usually leading receivers on a planned route so they throw where they should be in that route. So sometimes there’s no avoiding it but other times yeah they throw to you when there’s obvious threats to the receiver and hope for the best. Which can be a bad day for him when he’s just focused on bringing the ball in
Ya back when I played and to this day when a QB puts it in a bad spot where he's leading the receiver in to a hit we always called it "hanging him out to dry", just leaving him vunerable to get blasted.
As a former player the physics is important, the player going faster is the hitter the player going slower is the hittee
(American) Football is about to be on us friends. I would LOVE it if the lads tuned into the season and made content around that. Convert all three of these guys to being Packers fans!
So you know in boxing they say “protect yourself at all times.” On the football field first rule is “keep your head on a swivel.”
6:53 was the last time Brady ever tried to run the ball 😂😂
They gotta keep doing more NFL
There's a thing called "alligator arms" in football. When a receiver runs down the field and the quarterback floats the ball out to him and the receiver hears the footsteps coming, his arms suddenly get really short as he anticipates the hit.
Thank god it’s football season!!!! Y’all gotta react to the best “this is sports center” commercials
You guys should definitely watch "The Rules of the NFL" it a 6 min video on Nihn Ly TH-cam channel. Does a great job with making the basics easy to digest.
Edit: And he's a brit to boot lol.
One of the biggest newer rule is hits on defenseless receivers. Receiver going up for a ball and can't protect himself and you can't blast him.
Many of these hits are on defenseless receivers
I played WR in high school !! Getting hit SUCKS !!! Also a receiver has to touch the ball before the defensive player hits them or it's pass interference
The Buffalo Bills have the only English player in the NFL on their team (Christian Wade). Plus, they've never won a Super Bowl, and are suppose to be pretty good this year. One of you guys should become a Bills fan and join the Bills "Mafia". They have some of the craziest, passionate, loyal fans in all of sports.
I love football season even the preseason games 👊🏼
If you stood next to some of these dudes being ragdolled, they'd be some of the biggest dudes you've ever seen. Let that sink in real quick.
I had a homie who played Football his whole life until he went to prison for murder and he told me that when they played, (at least in high school) there goal was to get an ambulance to come and take someone out of the stadium and be like 'That was me, I did that'.
It is so much different when you go to a game in person and see how fast a 300+ pound guy can actually be film does not do it justice.
Your teams shouldn’t be picked at random, watch the season and/or come visit the USA then choose. I ended up getting drunk with a Welshman in Japan while a Swans match was on… it was probably the worst sports investment of my life but 15 years later and I’m still in the Jack Army.
I’m a 49ers fan purely because as a kid, all my bullies were Raiders fans and absolutely hated the 49ers. I’ll also root for the Ravens and the Greenbay Packers since they were playing the first game I ever watched. All terrible ways to pick teams. 😂
@@HyperWolf bang bang niner gang, no matter how you got here.
The guy in the middle can be a 49'er fan! Helmets are vastly improved!
Mike would be a perfect Steelers fan
I see some footage with my hometown team, the Indianapolis Colts! I actually live really close to their training center. I can drive there from my apartment in 2-3 minutes. I’ve seen some of the players at nearby stores when go shopping but I don’t bother them to get autographs because I respect their privacy. Go Colts!
Before the development of better padding and rule changes. There were 15 players killed in just one season of college football during the early 1900s. One of them was Teddy Roosevelt’s nephew. Just a random fact for you on how forceful the game is. His son also lost his front teeth playing as well.
It's much worse than that. Straight off wiki: "Between 1890 and 1905, 330 college athletes died as a direct result of injuries sustained on the football field. These deaths could be attributed to the mass formations and gang tackling that characterized the sport in its early years."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_football#Violence,_formation_of_NCAA
You guys should watch James Vincent’s video on George Kittle, ya’ll will LOVE his play and personality
Have you heard of “ alligator arms? “ it’s a receiver going across the middle full speed, see’s a defensive back. Decides discretion is the better part of valor, pulls up, covers up to not die.
That one single hit on Brady is why you rarely ever see him leave the pocket.
That was Nate Clements giving him an attitude adjustment. I will never forget that hit. I hated Michigan my entire life (LSU fan) and being a Bills fan I hated Brady the second he stepped on the field. That hit made me jump through my ceiling but I am pretty sure that hit also gave us 20 years of bad karma against him. lol
When the quarterback throws the ball to middle or a little hight and the receiver gets destroyed , they call it hanging the reciever out to dry , and they hate it
The wide receivers know it's coming, they just got balls of steel.
What you said about receivers getting snippy with their quarterbacks for throwing the suicidal passes over the middle is true. There have been a few QBs that have gotten a reputation for it over the years. I can hardly blame them for getting mad. Some of those hits in the middle are absolutely brutal.
On top of that, the mental affects after getting hit so much, sometimes receivers would pull up to avoid hits, or “alligator arms “ was nickname, even if he wasn’t going to be hit, and costs the team & ultimately himself if he became known as unreliable receiver, causing him to be cut from a team & other teams not willing to take him or if they do it would be at very low salary. This is worse case scenario but has lead some players out of the game/ early retirement.
@@chrisfrank2664 I never considered it from that aspect. Thank you.
@@JKM395 Your Welcome. I was just trying to add on to what you said, & how it can ruin a career, other then the possibility of getting seriously injured. And then thought of a WR from Philadelphia Eagles in 2000’s this actually happened to. Forget his name, but after a few hits, you could see his fear anytime going down field, not even through middle of field & he thought a Safety was coming, it was just embarrassing for him, and think it was 2 years later he was completely out of NFL.
2-3 times it was against Washington when Sean Taylor, my favorite player (RIP Sean Taylor) was there; he had that affect on many receivers.
@@chrisfrank2664 You're completely correct. If you're used to getting blown up in the middle, you're going to start fearing it. It's just natural.
@@JKM395 Yes it’s normal human behavior, even among the strongest & toughest guys to ever play this sport. I just watched “ Dark Side of Football” on Vice Network (probably clips or whole show on here?) and QB Tim Couch when drafted for Cleveland’s new team in 1999 had this happen as well. No one will ever mistake him for the best QB, but the team was not built right, and the guy just got beat up so much, it ruined his career. Just wanted to give example how this can happen to guys in all key offensive positions (anyone who carry’s or even touches football)
NFL has changed the rules: No helmet to helmet, No grabbing the back of the jersey to pull
the player sown, and the QB runs and when he starts his slide you can't hit him. Besides to
avoid injuries then men make MILLIONS today. Running back avg 3.5 years playing, remember
they run/catch the ball aprox 25 times a game. When I was young all that stuff and more was allowed.
But players were 20-30 lbs lighter.
its not even just the hits, its the way they land as well...extra whiplash to the already given whiplash. oof, thats why football is the one of the few sports where I don't complain about players getting whatever contracts they can. their career can be over in a hit
You guys are awesome. Many, many rules have been changed for the safety of the game. Wonder if you ever saw a hockey game and can figure out why the rule book in hockey when from 72 pages to over 200. Small hint it has something to do with the Broad Street Bullies, as they were named. GL
Back n the day they had a segment called JACKED UP, highlights of all the biggest hits of the week, this was b4 they told everyone that banging ur heads together for years could have serious consequences on ur mental health later on n life... but it was a fun segment to watch
Hey guys try and find some compilation videos of the steel curtain Pittsburgh Steelers, the purple people eater Minnesota Vikings, the 85 Chicago Bears, the 2000 Baltimore ravens, the 2002 Tampa Bay buccaneers, and the legion of boom Seattle Seahawks, these defenses were the most feared and brutal defensive units in the history of professional football. you won’t be disappointed.
A lot of these hits are illegal now when they would have been ok a decade or so ago. After it became common knowledge that a lot of retired NFL players were suffering severe neurological problems, the NFL decided it had to try and at least make it look like they cared about the health of its players. I'd be interested to see what the research says in 10-20 years about whether these rule changes are doing anything to reduce instances of CTE.
It's been said Rugby is a contact sport and American style football is a collision sport.
It's all about being planted to the ground and the runner has his legs in the air on his toes. To set up and be planted you have 10 times the leverage as somebody running
As someone who has played football for 15+ years
there are a couple of these a game
i am lucky enough to play the safest position on the field but it still can happen to anyone
Great video
And the biggest thing you learn playing football growing up is "bring the hammer".
If you shy from contact you're gonna get hurt. If you initiate contact you will win 90% of the time even if they are bigger.
I played football and it was the next day when you woke up that you found out where all your injuries, bumps, and bruises are.
Hitting someone up high is an illegal hit but some defenders will do it anyway to dissuade opponents from trying to come across the middle of the field later in the game
Would be cool to see you guys react to biggest truck hits in the nfl or stiff arms. Maybe even Just derick henry hes a beast! You get to see people with the ball hit back lol
Derick will not really have the moves to me he's mostly an north bound ball carrier! Mike Alstott he's my man! He was called the A TRAIN!
@OfficeBlokeDaz There are plenty of "hospital passes" thrown in American football. Cheers mate
You'll have the players that are conscious of the the big hit, those are the ones that get "alligator arms" and miss the ball to protect themselves. From "pee-wee"(6-10yrs) football to college you're coached to ignore it or else your manhood is called into question. It looks great when you can catch it and bounce right back up, but it takes its toll. 15 confirmed concussions and countless others ignored for the "Team". Great sport, loved every bit about it, just wished we had the protocols(and science) that they have now. Because right now, feeling 50 when you're 35 isn't fun.
@ 4:11 where his arms are stiff straight up that is TRAUMA big time
On defense, the farther from the line of scrimmage you go, the lighter and quicker the players are, generally speaking. And the farther back in time you go, the bigger the shoulder pads (till you get to around 1960).
OK guys, here are the teams each of you should pick.
Dave: Cleveland Browns, they are ginger in color, and should be in the playoffs this year if not super bowl. Mike: i agree with Daz the Pittsburg Steelers is your team to follow, and they play the browns twice because same division, so only one can go all the way to the big game. and Daz you should be following Green Bay, they play both teams once, and is in the other league, so if any of the teams make it, could have one of you on each side of the big game. but I make this choice because I am huge Browns fan, been waiting for the year for them, and if they continue what they did last year, they will go very far if not all the way. Dave push for this, and you will be proud to have them as your team to follow.
Love it! You guys gotta checkout some more player highlights. Marshawn lynches highlight tape is always a good place to start up again 💪🏽👌🏽
I’m gonna start a campaign to make you a panthers fan. Cmon blokes! Dave I know you said you like the North Carolina accent in one of your videos 🤣
Hits to the head are not expressly illegal. The rule is that a defender cannot hit a *"defenseless receiver"* in the head. A receiver is defenseless until they have caught the ball and made a "football move" -- they take a step, juke, change direction, etc. After a catch and football move, the receiver is now a ball carrier, and ball carriers *can* be hit up high. It's worth noting that in addition to the rule protecting defenseless receivers, defenders can never initiate contact by lowering and leading with their own helmet, and officials can call an unnecessary roughness penalty at their own discretion. Usually, unnecessary roughness is called when something truly unnecessary occurs, i.e. a hit after the play is over, or a big hit on someone not actively involved in the play, but it's sometimes used if an officials deems excessive force was used by a defender.
A lot of the plays here were illegal, hence all the flags, but plenty of them were legal too. Some of them were even incorrectly flagged in game, for example: 3:50 and 11:23. They were very hard hits, but the defenders led with their shoulders and hit the receivers in the chest after the ball had arrived. They were textbook legal hits, but the officials are humans and when they see very hard contact they sometimes reactively throw a flag.
Look up the different uniforms, logos, and histories of the teams and pick what appeals to you. Picking a team can be really fun
The only thing that gets me is when guys get called for targeting when all they did was run in to make the tackle and the ball carrier is the one who lowers the head and ends up getting hit in his head cause he lowered his head and then somehow the defensive guy is the one who gets penalized.
Getting blind side hit in football is like getting into a car crash.
You guys should do Bo Jacksons highlights. Dude was leading the league in rushing yards for the NFL the same time he was leading the MLB in home runs. Herschel walker is another y’all should check out. Sometimes it would take 6 people to tackle him.
Its called the exact same thing in american football. "Hospital pass" is where the QB throws a bad pass for the receiver and puts him in danger of getting hit defenselessly if thats a word.
Ok my suggestion react to John Randle undrafted defensive tackle fir the MN Vikings who made it into the Hall of Fame. He knew how to get in your head, and was so good. Only time a QB has been ejected (that I'm aware of) because he got in his head and he reacted without thinking.
@7:30 you mention size of the guy. Darrell Reid was 6’2”, 270lbs.
to answer daz's question, that's called hanging your receiver out to dry lol. a QB mostly does it unintentionally but words will probably be exchanged
Depends on the scenario. If the QB was taking a shot to the ribs as they were throwing - putting the ball off path in return - the receiver can't really blame the QB and they both got shat on because the OL didn't do its job.
I have a feeling you guys would love Troy Polamalu highlights. He just got inducted into the Hall Of Fame and is one of the most likeable football players ever
If you guys watch football this year you should be Seahawks fans. They're pretty much the only team in the northwest part of the country. They're kind of the team for states and people that don't have a team. They have a big following in Australia and Europe.
Don't know if yall have... but you should check out Kam Chancellor highlights