Surprise, surprise: Lawrence Taylor isn’t a fan of the new NFL rules protecting offensive players.
“It used to be a game where it wasn’t for the weak at heart, it wasn’t for the weak at mind, it was something you’d go into, you have to dedicate yourself, you have to want to be out there when it’s hot outside, you have to want to hit. … The problem with it now is that it’s making it a game where everybody can play,” Taylor said Tuesday on a conference call promoting Showtime’s documentary “LT: The Life And Times.”
“That’s why they don’t have football during gym class, because it’s not a game that everybody can play.
“With the rules and things, and the way you have to play soft, the way you no longer … simple rules … they don’t know how much of a difference it makes when a wide receiver’s coming across the middle, and he don’t have to worry about an intimidation where they can’t target him, or they have to go for the ball.
“Everybody can be a Jerry Rice if they’re going to do it that way, if you can’t get hit or you can’t get targeted coming across the middle. That just don’t make no sense. If Jerry Rice worked hard to do what he did and become the player he became, they’re trying to make it for everybody could be a Jerry Rice.”