As a football lifer I could care less if the helmets look a little bigger and goofier. Just watching training camp highlights it still looks like football to me. What DOES frustrate me is losing a great player to concussion protocol.
They could definitely put more money into the design and the color schemes. You could definitely make them more aesthetically pleasing without much effort. Plus you could save money on the graphical design of the main helmet - one team has a white base helmet and the other has black, or the team's main color. Then the guardian cap on top would have all the fancy colors and logos.
The Guardian Cap looks funky because it's a retrofit over an existing helmet. The segmented design breaks up the smooth contour of the normal helmet shell, likely preventing the normal helmet logos from working well if they were printed on the outside of the cap. However, it might be possible to get some of the benefits of padding outside the shell by making it an integral part of the helmet and giving it a smooth exterior. Then it could look like a normal helmet that's just a bit larger. You'd just take a normal helmet and add a molded foam shell over the current hard shell, with a flexible smooth cover over the foam. Then the new helmet would take all the usual logos and such. Obviously the Guardian Cap helps because it provides shock absorption on the outside of the hard shell, reducing g-forces on the brain when a player's head slams into the turf or another player. There is probably some acceptable trade-off between protection vs. a helmet that starts looking too big and funky. You could make the foam a little thinner, thus trading some protection for a cleaner appearance but still providing more protection than a standard helmet.
So like..... A football helmet on top of a football helmet? At some point i feel like theres gonna be so much weight on these guys heads that they are gonna get rocked and snap their dang neck cause they are wearing 4 helmets and cant see a dude 12 inches to their left coming in to give them whip lash with a body hit.
@@andyshepard4309 - Those sound like the same fans that whined about all the rule changes and claimed they were swearing off football when Trump made a stink about players taking a knee. People complain about the NFL all the time but the NFL keeps making more money, suggesting that most of the complaining fans can't stay away. And no matter how "soft" the NFL gets, teams put players on Injured Reserve every week.
Fake fans is what I call them, I’m all for player safety and having some of my favorite players in the league have long and healthy careers not cursed with long term injuries.
@@nextbigthing2917How is that going to protect them from a torn ACL? If you are scared of getting injured don’t play the sport. WWE is becoming more of a contact sport than the NFL
I mentioned this last year, and people looked at me like I was crazy. Notice how the pro bowl game was mainly flag football, and how nfl players were playing it, not some college aged young adult. Tackle football will be banned in 20 years. It will all be flag. Mark my words.
There is no way that stat of 52% reduction is true or as obvious as it sounds. They aren't playing hard while they are wearing them. It isn't because of the padding.
I think they’ll put those caps on the inside of the helmets and the players look like bobble heads lmao or make them look exactly like the nfl helmets they’re covering. Like a logo over it and the stripes for example
i heard the some of the same chatter about seatbelts. if the technology has proven to work (and it had) and the nfl does not allow players to wear them in games, then the nfl opens itself up to lawsuit from players who suffer concussions and debilitating neurological injuries.
So your helmet needs a helmet???? Just go back to leather helmets and no pads haha the helmet/pads make more people a human rocket. And most concussions is not hit from hit it’s the head hitting the ground
Don't worry, even if they eliminate brain injuries they'll still have plenty of ACL tears and Achilles tears and broken bones and cart-offs and whatever else you want to watch. Guys will still go on the IR with turf toe. Football as we know it is unlikely ever to be safe.
It is pretty simple. You know how you have pillowcases? Make a fabric slip cover thing for the cap that makes it look like the helmet logo stuff. The looks of it is a problem that we can easily engineer a solution for.
"Leather helmets worked just fine! Fans won't watch these babies run around with hard hats on! They would have to do something crazy like paint 'em up! What's next? Metal bars to protect their faces?"
@@brettdavidson3866 There is actually a school of thought that the old leather helmets were better. Not because they offer better protection, but because people are less likely to be reckless. I hear rugby players talk about it. In rugby there are no helmets at all and this causes the players to be far more careful when it comes to the head.
They could easily make a new helmet fully padded with that material and still have the look of the helmet. The NFL is onto something and i think in the future theyll have exo suits so injuries would never happen
@@demeresmith7307 The first example that comes to me is mouth guards. They were used in kids football for quiet a while before they started to show up in the NFL. If I was a parent of kid playing today, I would make sure they were wearing one!
@@cjr1881 Lol. You may stop watching it but most people won't. The game will still be exciting with the Guardian Caps. Watching elite athletes play a sport will never end.
I am so over this "safety" issue. These gladiators know and accept the risks of this entertainment in order to achieve fame and fortune. Don't want to be concussed? Go to college, earn a degree in a field that will improve the human condition.
Friction. At NFL full speed, which I know you know doesn't happen in practice, they can cause friction which will lead to different kinds of contortion based injuries on the neck
You could probably minimize the friction problem by making the foam continuous rather than segmented and putting a smooth slippery cover layer over the foam. You already have the problem with the facemask that can possibly snag on the turf or against another player. Grabbing the facemask is of course a penalty because of the risk of neck injury that creates.
Damn, old grumpy man take from Simms here. No regard for safety, just cares about the integrity of the game he grew up playing. It’s proven to be effective, who cares how it looks?
Thats not a grumpy old man take he's being realistic. The players know the risk of what they do for a living, and most do not want to wear those. If you want a perfectly safe game, then it is no longer football
Those guardian caps are cool, they need to wear those all the times and sell them to the fans. It looks like the character from Dark Helmet in the movie Space Balls
You could easily put the team logos on the guardian caps and even change the color of the guardian cap for throw back games. I think it would allow for less helmet to helmet calls when they barely make contact. Almost bringing back the hard hitting days of the early 2000s. I say do it!
This might improve the Pro Bowl. No more AFC vs NFC. Next year: Mushrooms vs Great Gazoos Death Caps vs Toadstools Jiffy Pops vs Bouffants We can make this work!
Just go to flag football !! The National Flag League and then watch the Goose that lays the Golden eggs die! Is ANYONE looking into what ALL that on the head is doing to player's necks?!!
The NFL is NOT concerned about concussions. Those guardian caps are ridiculous and ineffective. Concussions happen then players are going top speed in one direction and suddenly stop because they've been hit. Adding a 17th game (soon to be 18th) and an extra playoff team is all the proof you need that the NFL doesn't give a f*ck about player safety. Just stop the nonsense.
latest NFL to allow players to wear protective soft-shell helmet covers during games . This is a good step in reducing concussions and permanent brain damage . However the shells should have a sheen or slippery surface . If the surface is like rubber or neoprene (like the soles of basketball shoes) it will stick to the field or opposing players, it would probably cause more neck injuries
Sounded like weak arguments. They have a lot of money in this sport and they can make the new helmet look better and put logos. I don’t think people would watch other things just because they don’t find the helmet looks.
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nfl starting to look like the saftey team at my job micro managing every little aspect. the players know what they signed up for 20 years from now the nfl will be flag football they are already phasing out the fullback the biggest meat head on the team the linemen will be next.
The reason it’s helping is because concussions are caused from helmets slapping on the ground more so than hitting eachother. This helps reduce those concussions
The extra padding might not work as well on the inside of the hard shell. Then you would have the entire helmet including the face mask moving relative to the player's head during an impact. Maybe that's bad for some reason.
If the NFL comes out and says these will not be used in games, we will all know the reason - greed and money. The same reason they don't pay officials full-time.
