New NFL Rule Idea

[Bleeding Blue]

Does anyone else think that offsetting 15-yard personal foul penalties are completely worthless? It doesn't penalize either team at all. The only thing that might come from it is some extra laps in practice for the guy who committed the stupid penalty. What I am proposing is a new rule where if the same player gets two personal fouls in one game he is ejected for that game. (Similar to getting yellow and red cards in soccer.) Also, if that player accumulates enough personal fouls throughout the season he may receive additional penalties. To my knowledge nothing like this is around.....

[Mr Awesome]

Eh I really can't see ejecting anyone. It doesn't really fix the offsetting fouls problem any way. If a player keeps committing personal fouls, then his team will keep losing 15 yards.

I do think fines and suspensions for personal fouls would be a good idea though.

[Da Schwab]

To be honest, it sounded stupid at first, but I kinda like it.

Guys get suspended for helmet-to-helmet hits, and for committing more notable stupid acts, but guys that may continue to act up during football games with pushes and shoves should be acted upon, too.

[Dunthreevy]

It would be great if we didn't have to waste the time in a game just for the ref to basically say "yeah there were penalties on both sides so neither of them matter, and I'm really just wasting time telling you about the penalties." That's just from the perspective of a fan that likes to keep the game moving. As far as the suspensions or fines go, I would say depending on the severity of the foul there should definitely be some form of stricter discipline involved, and not just fines on the player but on the team as well. Look at basketball, if a player gets 2 flagrant fouls they're ejected and typically suspended a game or two (if memory serves me correctly), or in more serious cases the player is ejected if the first flagrant is deemed malicious. But if we had these sort of penalties in the league, we wouldn't have players like Rodney Harrison and John Lynch to hate because they would most likely always be suspended.