NFL RULES CHANGES -- PROTECTING QBs AND D-LINEMEN

After watching games this past week the following rules changes are in order. But first I have to say: Goodell, cut the crap and start protecting ALL players! Ready?

1. NO "chop" blocking of D-Lineman PERIOD! That could even go as far as no blocking below the waist at the line of scrimmage.

[No images of chop blocks available. I wonder why not?]

2. NO arms around the QBs head/neck when tackling him in the pocket. Vick took a good shot like this last night. Roethlisberger gets it all the time (probably the LEAST protected QB in the league just because he's "big" and can "take it."

3. Here's the big one--A "Match Penalty" (automatic ejection) for hitting the QB below the knees in the pocket. NO EXCEPTIONS; WITH a hefty fine starting at $100,000 if the QB isn't injured; plus SUSPENSION if he is. If the Steelers are being "forced" to play differently (well they WERE the poster children for head hits, weren't they?) then EVERYBODY ELSE needs to play differently as well and save the most vulnerable, and usually least replaceable, member of the team, the QB.

4. The "Offsetting Penalties" rule(s) need to be changed. If penalties are "differentiated" by "severity" with the amount of yardage penalized, then they should be also "differentiated" instead of "offset." E.g., with say a defensive offside penalty and an offensive holding penalty are committed on the same play the holding penalty should be enforced instead of "offset."  There are distinctions made but not across the board.  Change it. I'm tired of seeing plays that produce "no result."

I rest my case.