NFL Bans the "Hip Drop Tackle"
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Still think that "Hip Drop Tackle" sounds like a Country Western dance song.
Nope. The heads-up rule changes were during AJ's time. And once again, it doesn't even matter since JJ Watt and his little brother are saying the same exact thing. Can't ignore that. LOL!
Just a made up term by an NFL staffer looking to prevent future lawsuits. It's not about real football.
The horsecollar tackle ban is basically the same thing.. that is pulling over backwards largely meant coming down on the back of the legs. So this rule cuts to the chase and makes using your weight on the back of the legs.. horsecollar or waist hold.. illegal.
Guaranteed that when it comes to college Rutgers will be called for grabbing someone by the waist and NOT landing on his legs.
Guaranteed that when it comes to college Rutgers will be called for grabbing someone by the waist and NOT landing on his legs.
Most of the tackles shown in the video were not hip drop tackles. In order for it to be a hip drop tackle, you have to land on the legs below the knees. Most of those tackles the tackler fell on the ground next to the runner.
Estimated 230 hip drop tackles last year in NFL, and injury rate on them something like 25 times higher than in other tackles. Not hard to avoid. You just have to not drop on the legs. Lots of folked whined about spearing, about horse collar, about crown of the helmet. But they are all accepted now. Hip drop tackles can end a career in an instant. Good to get rid of them.
Invented as a technique by the Melbourne Storm NRL rugby team in 2002. It's a nasty piece of work and deserves to be banned. All you have to do to avoid is not bring your body down on the legs.
Is there a famous example of a serious injury causes by this now-illegal tackle so it can clearly be shown to those of us who don't quite get it? The video from the McAfee show looks crazy in that if the defender gets to the ball carrier at the point where he's turning upfield, this sort of tackle looks extremely likely. The runner will lean back in towards the defense in that situation naturally, and a grasping defender will pull him towards the defender. Just a question of whether or not it will end up flagged, from what I see.
On the new kickoff rule, what happens if the ball doesn't go past the line of scrimmage? I could see this happening on a wet or windy day.
Go to about the 1:35 mark on the link and you'll see what the league is talking about. Later in this video the guy doing it lists data that says that there were 230 instances of this in 2023, up 60% from the previous year, and that 15% resulted in injury. The one on Drew Sample in this video ended his season with a knee injury. Not sure why one wouldn't want this banned.
Thanks for the link, yeah that looks like something that could be banned without affecting what I was talking about.
