Seattle Seahawks linebacker Bobby Wagner understands the need for safety in the National Football League, but he doesn't want the league to continue to make it harder for defensive players to play the sport.

When the idea of a targeting rule that is implemented in college being used in the NFL was brought up, Bobby Wagner reacted as if someone stole his Teddy Ruxpin.

“It’s terrible,” Wagner said, via PFT. “You can just see it now, you watch the college games and they kicking players out for clean hits because they can’t tell what is a clean hit from certain angles. I would rather that rule stay in the colleges then come up here and start messing up our game.”

“I just think there is a better way than bringing that rule into (the league),” Wagner said. “I would just hate to see rule come into the pros because it makes me not want to watch the college game because I know at any second, a guy could be kicked out for a hit and I don’t know how it is, but they possibly be suspended for half of the game or something like that. Nobody wants to see that.”

This might — at least at first — seem like a meathead making a gladiator like comment, but Wagner did add some really solid points.

“I mean you can be conscious all you want of how you hit a player and what shoulder you are going to hit with the player or anything like that,” Wagner said. “But as soon as the offensive player lowers his shoulder or lowers his head or puts his head into it, I can come with my shoulder and he can lower his head and his head hit my shoulder, but they still say it’s my fault. It’s hard to be conscious of that. You can (be) conscious of it but I don’t think it’s all on the defense even though I feel like we are trying to do a better job of making sure we’re not using our head.”

What do you guys think?