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Post by wingtol on Aug 17, 2010 13:11:27 GMT -6
We seem to have a growing trend with our OL wearing those cowboy collars and I will be honest that I am not real sure what they are even for. I assume they are like the old neck rolls but it seems to me that the guys wearing them can't get their heads up far enough when they are in a stance. Maybe I am over analyzing. Just wondering if anyone has pro's/con's of the OL wearing those.
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Post by leighty on Aug 17, 2010 13:14:32 GMT -6
I hate those damn things.
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Post by cc on Aug 17, 2010 13:41:44 GMT -6
I always laugh when I see guys wearing them without the plastic reinforcer on it. = all show.
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Post by buckeye7525 on Aug 17, 2010 18:32:41 GMT -6
Yea I'm not a huge fan of them either. Our TE can't get his head up at all in his stance, my right guard got his butt ripped so much for missing blitzes that he finally decided to take it off.
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Post by coachks on Aug 17, 2010 20:17:15 GMT -6
Noticed a serious drop in play when one of our guards adopted the neckroll about halfway through the season. Suddenly he starts missing the flowing LB on pulls
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Post by Chris Clement on Aug 17, 2010 21:13:42 GMT -6
Pretty much a fashion accessory.
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Post by julien on Aug 17, 2010 23:55:00 GMT -6
Pretty much a fashion accessory. I agree. I only let the player wear one if they are still able to get their head up. |
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Post by gdn56 on Aug 18, 2010 9:27:15 GMT -6
I truly hate these as well. Zero visibility.
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Post by coachriley on Aug 18, 2010 18:56:04 GMT -6
Yeah I wore one of these for only one game during my senior year. I couldnt keep my butt up in my stance or keep my eyes up, I dont like them at all.
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Post by coachbags on Aug 18, 2010 22:26:51 GMT -6
After enough stingers, our trainers put a neck roll on my shoulder pads in college. Fortunately, in our offense, I played about 50% of our snaps in a 2 point stance.
I would have never been able to wear one of those in HS. I wouldn't have been able to see the defense from my stance.
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Post by schenk11 on Aug 20, 2010 6:27:39 GMT -6
We do not allow our players to wear one unless by doctors note, obtw, we haven't gotten a doctors note yet.
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Post by goldenbear76 on Aug 21, 2010 23:41:37 GMT -6
Count me in the "I $#@%$# hate those things" crowd.
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Post by sneakyben on Aug 23, 2010 12:22:00 GMT -6
What injuries (and how) are they supposed to help prevent?
Surely anything that forces the head forward is more likely to cause the player to hit with the top of their head (and thus injure them and others)?
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Post by dubber on Aug 23, 2010 18:48:44 GMT -6
No one wears them on our team...........we hate em'
Anyone like them?
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Post by mariner42 on Aug 23, 2010 20:59:19 GMT -6
Not for the OL, no. I'm kinda partial to butterfly restrictors for LBs because they always felt the best to me (I don't like the shock boards or w/e they're called, collars never felt right, rolls were too big). |
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Post by cathog on Aug 31, 2010 12:00:39 GMT -6
We have used both the Cowboy Collars and the Butterfly pad at the back of the shoulder pads and neother have let the lineman wearing it get their eyes up. We use them for stingers but dont like them for linemen
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