New NFL rules

So the ownersvoted on and passed 4 new "safety" rules:

DANA POINT, Calif. (AP) -NFL owners have passed four player safety rules for next season. One of them is the elimination of blindside helmet-to-helmet blocks.

The changes came Tuesday at the NFL meetings in California.

The new rules state that the initial force of a blindside block can't be delivered by a helmet, forearm or shoulder to an opponent's head or neck. An illegal blindside block will bring a 15-yard penalty.

Initial contact to the head of a defenseless receiver also will draw a 15-yard penalty.

On kickoffs, no blocking wedge of more than two players will be allowed. Also, the kicking team can't have more than five players bunched together pursuing an onside kick. 

I have a problem with the last two....How in the world can two players be considered a blocking wedge? This is football not basketball. A team should be able to form a blocking wedge and  break open a hole for the kick returner.

 As for the onside kick rule...you have 5 guys on one side of the kicker and 5 lined up on the other...on an osides kickyou shift extra players over to the side you are kicking to...now this is not allowed.

Under the new ruleeveryone must stay on their side but the side you are kicking to can "bunch" up.

Why not just have the kicker pick up the ball, walk it ten yards and hand it to the other team and accept defeat?

 What is next? Dressing the players up in foam sumo wrestler costumes and letting them bump into each other?