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Carl Cheffers called on Tyrone Crawford on Sunday. The Cowboys defensive lineman didn’t like it either.“It’s the way the rules are now Seattle Seahawks T-Shirt , and if we’ve got to figure it out, then we’ve got to figure it out,” Crawford said Tuesday. “I do feel like they should have some long, hard discussions about that and maybe try and change it up so it’s not only in the quarterback’s favor, so we can still play football out there.”Crawford’s hit on Russell Wilson led to a third-down incompletion. It also led to a 15-yard penalty that extended the Seahawks’ first drive.Cheffers ruled Crawford landed with his body weight on Wilson, one of 13 roughing the passer penalties in the NFL in Week Three, according to Kevin Seifert of ESPN.“It’s hard for me to say I can do anything different in that situation,” Crawford said. “You know Russ is not an easy guy to get down to the ground. When you tackle him, you’ve got to tackle him. You’ve got to wrap hard. You’ve got to get him to the ground. If you play any more timid than that, you’re going to miss a lot of tackles. I’ve been there before where I was thinking about the fines. I can’t let that happen with my football play now. I can’t think about the fines I may get for hitting the quarterback or what not.”Crawford said the NFL is asking defensive linemen to go against their instincts, against what coaches have taught them for a lifetime, against the laws of physics.“You grow up hitting and hitting like going full speed. You know one way to do it,” said Crawford, who is in his seventh season. “When you’re doing something your whole life, yeah, it’s really hard to change, especially now at this point in your career and at that time. When you see a sack Seattle Seahawks Hats , you go usually even harder. When you see quarterback, you go even harder to get to him, to try and get there before the ball is thrown. To try and pull off at like literally the last millisecond is kind of hard.“I do understand some of the rules that they have going for the protection of players, but I can’t lie to myself and say that I agree with that one because it’s just really hard to do. We’ve been learning something our whole life. Yeah, it’s definitely against our instincts to pull off. I can’t really explain it any better than that. I don’t want to talk bad about the league and what they’re trying to do, because they’re definitely trying to protect us, and I understand. I used to hit with my head, and that’s all I would hit with, and I considered myself a pretty good tackler. But every since they brought in the rule about not hitting with your head, which I completely understand, my tackling hasn’t been as good. There’s just different things that, if it affects you, you can’t let it affect you, and I guess you’re going to have to do it the right way if they make one way the right way. Again, I think they should look over this rule and definitely consider everybody and think about how they would go about, because it’s definitely a hard rule to follow.”The competition committee has the rule on its agenda for a regularly scheduled conference call next week, and the league鈥檚 former head of officials Seattle Seahawks Hoodie , Mike Pereira, expects a change in how roughing the passer is officiated.“I don’t see it being good,” Crawford said of the rule. “That’s why I think if they take a look and they picture themselves in some of the same situations, and they take in everything that can possibly happen, I think they come to change the rule. We’ll have to see.”And if nothing changes? “If they do decide to stay with the rule, then we need to figure out a way to . . . I guess push the quarterback down on the ground or something,” Crawford said. Don't expect the NFL to institute a national anthem policy this season, if at all.NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell emphasized on Wednesday the work teams and players are doing in the community and didn't say whether the league and the NFLPA are moving closer toward any agreement on the contentious issue."The focus of the players' association, the NFL and all of our clubs and our players is to focus on the efforts our players have continually brought (forth) as their issues in their communities and how can we make our communities better," Goodell said after the fall meetings concluded."They're incredibly passionate about that. They have brought these issues greater awareness and they are working in their communities to try to make their communities better and they are working on the issues, on criminal justice reform. I've been on listen-and-learn tours with our players. Owners have been on listen-and-learn tours. Our players are obviously out there and you see a tremendous amount of work being done."Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones indicated a policy isn't forthcoming."I think right now we are going forward just as we entered the season," Jones said.He added: "One of the owners stood up and said: 'We have really gotten in a place that's positive and not that we weren't, but we benefited from this.' And, I agree, in relationships and sorting through where we want to go, and I'm so impressed with the social programs that the clubs and the players have engaged in."In May, the NFL passed a rule that forbids players from sitting or taking a knee if they are on the field or sidelines during "The Star-Spangled Banner Cheap Customized Seattle Seahawks Jerseys ," but allowed them to stay in the locker room if they wish. The league left it up to teams on how to punish players. The union challenged the rule in a grievance.The league halted the policy in July.The NFL and a coalition of players have been working in tandem to support player initiatives for a variety of social issues. Last month, coalition members including Malcolm Jenkins, Benjamin Watson, Demario Davis and Chris Long conducted work in the areas of bail reform and criminalization of poverty. Seattle's Doug Baldwin attended bail hearings and met with grass-roots organizations and the public defender's office regarding the need to end cash bail in King County on Sept. 25.Coalition members have focused on voting this month as well as voter restoration rights, plus their ongoing work on bail reform."The focus has been on listening, learning, understanding what the players want to accomplish in their community, the impact they want to have and supporting them," Goodell said. "Our clubs have done that at historic levels and we've gone over that the last couple of days. I'm proud of what our clubs are doing. I'm proud of what our players are doing. We're all working together to try to address those issues, and from my standpoint that always helps make relationships more productive when there's respect and understanding and agreement to work together to try to make things better."When you have people working together and listening to one another and that level of respect, I think everyone feels better and I think that's important, but the key thing is there's a lot of work to be done."In 2016, then-49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick began protesting police brutality, social injustice and racial inequality by kneeling during the national anthem, and the demonstration spread to other players and teams.Critics led by President Donald Trump called the players unpatriotic and Trump even said NFL owners should fire any player who refused to stand during the anthem. Many players countered that their actions were being misconstrued and that they are seeking social change rather than protesting the anthem itself.