Player safety rules revision

The fairness of the personal foul penalties (especially the helmet-to-helmet hits and hit on defenseless receivers) is obviously one sided in the current officiating.

Firstly, the helmet-to-helmet personal foul penalty has not been enforced on every hit, which can be understandable to a point because the officials are going to miss some borderline calls, but the hits that are being called are not all illegal hits according to league rules but are being called anyways. The ultimate job of a defender is to hit the person with the ball to eventually knock them down to stop advancement of the ball. When the person with the ball bends down to try and shake off the hit or "run the defender over" and continue to advance the ball it is extremely difficult for a defender to make an adjustment along with the person carrying the ball because as a defender you have to go low for two reasons, the first is because you want to take the legs out to try and stop advancement or the ability to juke a defender.

Secondly, the player safety rules prohibit defenders from hitting players high with their helmet. It seems that the intention of the NFL was to have the players hit lower, and that is what Dashon Goldson did against the New Orleans Saints on 09-15-2013 on a hit on the Saints running back Darren Sproles and was called a penalty, but it is blatantly obvious that it is humanly impossible to try to hit a player low and dodge the helmet when the player with the ball is going low as well, leaving almost no room for the player to make a sure tackle or hit to stop progression.

The hit on a defenseless receiver is also another penalty that is unfair to a defensive player. Again, the job of a defender (especially in the secondary) is to tackle the player that is potentially going to catch the ball. The defender has to assume that the receiver is going to catch the ball and make a sure tackle to try and separate the receiver from the football or to simply get the player down. If the defender has to "play it safe" and wait until the player turns around and sets his footing to try and progressive the ball up the field, it puts the defender in a very poor position to make a tackle and to get "run over" (which also causes injuries when a receiver lowers his head to try and run through the defender) and therefore makes a very big upper hand to the receiver (which are more times than not bigger than the defender in size) and therefore, makes the plays in the passing game unfair to defenders. I can completely understand player safety, but it needs to be done in a manner that does not give an advantage to the offense.

It is also worth noting that it is almost impossible for a player to tackle another player without going low with the upper body to get leverage, and in doing so will also bring the helmet.

With all of this being said, it is unfair that a lot of the hits that are being called helmet-to-helmet are really "shoulder-to-helmet" hits and are not reviewable by the referees and are just assumed to be illegal hits because of the viciousness of the hit. Let's also not forget that this game requires helmets, pads, and other safety equipment to prevent injury and I feel that instead of making the game tougher to play for only certain players, let's make the helmets and other safety equipment safer instead of making it an unfair advantage to a specific defense or offense.