The Bengals’ Marvin Lewis has become one of those old school prophets in the hall of NFL head coaches. Take the new tackling rule that was clandestinely pushed this week by the NFL competition committee and passed unanimously by the owners even though no one knows how it is going to be called or what the penalties are going to be.
“Lowering the head to initiate contact with the helmet is a foul,” is what the new rule reads.
Lewis laughs. That’s what he’s been taught ever since he was in 10th grade at Fort Cherry High School in McDonald, Pa.