Strength and conditioning experts say that reducing the speed of the hits will lessen the injuries. What, you don't trust them?
...rather than just on kickoffs..?
Improve the helmets ability to absorb the impact to the head ON EVERY PLAY should be the NFLs goal rather than attacking one particular play (the kickoff) believing that the new kickoff rules will solve the concussion problem the NFL still hasn't addressed in a meaningful way.
Changing the NFL's kickoff rules is nothing more than "another bandaid effort" meant to kick the NFL's concussion problem down the road a bit further.
FIX THE HELMETS...and leave the game of Pro Football alone..! The problem with the fix the helmet approach is that a helmet can't change the underlying physiology that it is meant to protect. Internally, there is always going to be a squishy brain surrounded by a hard skull. Even if you put everyone in those giant inflatable bubbles, there would still be concussions due to internal inertia. People (and thus their brains) will still be changing direction rapidly even if the things hitting each other are softer.
