Merged Thread: NFL Bans Drop Hip Tackles

[Bill Cody]

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This opens the door for more BS calls by the refs. Imagine a game saving tackle wiped out by a call like this. People will lose their minds. I think this call is too much of a grey area to be interpreted. So now you have to tackle someone without falling on them to be safe?

not hip drop tackle AND fall on them. The new rule actually allows hip drop tackles as long as you don't land on the players legs. There will be a bit of a learning curve on this for both players and refs. It's exactly like when they outlawed, correctly, the horse collar tackle. Early in the season you saw a bunch of calls on this by the refs. But by mid season there were very few. Why? Because PLAYERS STOPPED USING THE HORSE COLLAR. As they will with the hip drop. Stop the whining.

[Bill Cody]

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You guys are going to pay $50K+ for a PSL to watch two-hand-touch football.

Eventually yes. Maybe I'll be dead 1st idk. But despite the fact that the league is a cash machine I see a day of reckoning when half the former players have CTE and the mother of all class action suits gets filed.

[Typ0]

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What's a defender supposed to do....let him go?

well yes this is the way our society seems to be going and it's being reflected in the NFL.

They might as well just start playing flag football. I would still watch. There would still be guys making amazing plays.

But cut the ****ing bull**** it is tackle football stop handicapping people from tackling.

I ultimately see this as was stated above...the NFL creating a situation where they are better positioned to decide the outcome of games than players on the field.

[Typ0]

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not hip drop tackle AND fall on them. The new rule actually allows hip drop tackles as long as you don't land on the players legs. There will be a bit of a learning curve on this for both players and refs. It's exactly like when they outlawed, correctly, the horse collar tackle. Early in the season you saw a bunch of calls on this by the refs. But by mid season there were very few. Why? Because PLAYERS STOPPED USING THE HORSE COLLAR. As they will with the hip drop. Stop the whining.

how can you tackle a guy and not land on his legs though? Situationally this is a nightmare.

[Historian]

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ludicrous hyperbole.

ZERO DOUBT undeniable. Of COURSE . Of course
VASTLY outweighed

Oye...

[notacon]

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Oye...

You don't agree with he facts???

Do you seriously believe that the idea that the hip drop tackle rule is a precursor "two handed touch football" and that is NOT ludicrous hyperbole.?!??!

Oy vey

[Typ0]

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I really think they should go to a flag football model and let ball handlers defend their flags. That's the problem with having a contact but touch league forms of contact should not end plays.

[Typ0]

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What they really should do is do away will all of the rules and just make one simple rule:

If you are involved with a guy getting hurt you get a penalty in the game, possible fine and suspension.

Do away with holding and forward progress rules and let them run around the field more like Rugby.

Play the game with scantily clad hot chicks.

Hey....wait a minute ....

[Bill Cody]

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how can you tackle a guy and not land on his legs though? Situationally this is a nightmare.

You do get that this is where guys are getting hurt right? If a player uses the hip drop he's going to get penalized if he lands on the opponents legs. Not a nightmare.

[Woodman]

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Bill Belichick: It’s good to get rid of the hip-drop tackle, there’s no place for it

Belichick said in a discussion with Roger Goodell for the Pat McAfee Show that he supports the ban on the hip-drop tackle, which occurs when a defender wraps up a ball carrier, swivels his hips and drops onto the ball carrier’s legs.

“It’s a good thing to get rid of. There’s really no place for it. It’s just good to continue to keep the game safe for the players,” Belichick said.

Goodell said the technique has been responsible for a disproportionate number of injuries, and particularly serious injuries.

“When you see a play that is greater than 20 times the injury rate, and most of those injuries are pretty severe, they’re career ending or season ending, you’ve got to make the change,” Goodell said.