[alfus21]

Halftime of the Monday Night Game, they were talking about the new rules prohibiting players from rolling around right around quarterback's knees and rolling over their knees. They said what finally set it off was the hit on Carson Palmer.

Question: If the hit was clean (was legal at the time, but I'm saying clean) as so many of you argue, why would they make a rule that forbid exactly what happened??

I found what you're talking about, and it didn't mean accidental rolls, but more along forcibly hitting the QB below the knees and not trying to get out of the way..Here is the rule, I found on ESPN.com...

--A rushing defensive player won't be allowed to forcibly hit a quarterback below the knees. He has to make every effort to avoid such a low hit. Palmer, Griese and Roethlisberger suffered knee injuries on low hits but those three plays were considered legal by the committee because they involved defensive rushers coming off blocks. Several other plays such as the old Rodney Harrison hit on Trent Green when he was with the Rams along with a Jared Allen low hit on Kerry Collins would be subject to a 15-yard penalty. That proposal passed, 25-7.

As I've said before, the hit was clean as the player that rolled on Palmer was knocked into him by a Bengal lineman, and he had no awareness of the fact that he was rolling onto Palmer as he was clearly not even looking that way. The rule was changed to protect quarterbacks, and I'd be willing to bet they'll be another one put in next year because of what Geathers did to Green.