[johnnyt]

playing devils advocate here, look up ronnie lott on you tube. he could lay the lumber on people but never led with his head. i am not saying there wasnt incidental helmet to helmet contact (which yes could lead to fines under new rules) but 90% of his tackles he leads with his chest. they talked about his style of hitting on the nfl network. i was skeptical myself and looked it up on you tube and they were correct. hard hits can still be made without helmet to helmet contact. the problem is, football is a collision sport and you cant always plan for those collisions.

of the 3 fined hits if you look at the robinson hit on jackson and the merriweather hit on heap you see at the last second the defender changing the position of their head/helmet to hit the other player first. on the harrison play i dont see that i see a hard hit but i dont see him trying to lead with his head i do with the other 2.