NFL Approves Ban of the Hip Drop Tackle

[bamainatlanta]

NFL owners approve ban of swivel hip-drop tackle

NFL owners have approved a rule proposal to ban the swivel hip-drop tackle, the league announced Monday.

www.espn.com

 

[BNB]

My prediction is that this will be called very inconsistently. Bold, I know.

 

[SugabearMVP]

Get ready for flag football in 10 years.

 

[sevvy]

I'd hate to play defense. It's been getting harder and harder to play defense in the NFL. This doesn't help.

I understand that by their metrics, this tackle is like 20x more likely to result in an injury, but damn.

 

[Chicagofam]

Two hand touch time

 

[Yogi]

I saw the statement that there were 230 identified infractions of this new rule last season alone.

If those were enforced it would've been the 4th-most called penalty of last year, behind only False Starts, Offensive Holding, and DPI.

And it would have been more 15-yard penalties than Unnecessary Roughness (126) and Roughing the Passer (93) combined.

Yuck...

 

[HearshotKDS]

My prediction is that this will be called very inconsistently. Bold, I know.

And one of the most questionable calls is going to decide a game on prime time this season.

 

[94SupraTT]

I'd hate to play defense. It's been getting harder and harder to play defense in the NFL. This doesn't help.

I understand that by their metrics, this tackle is like 20x more likely to result in an injury, but damn.

This is crazy. I've 100% done versions of the hip drop many many years ago when I played. I don't think all variations are equal. I've done something similar to this.

I've also done that but instead of leaving my feet whipped them to the ground by planting my feet, grabbing by the hips and whipping them to the ground. Grab hips, plant feet, and whip/spin to the ground via their hips with my hands/arms. Also, if I'm running at someone at a bad angle I might be able to get a hold of their far hip and then the near hip and whip them down. This is crazy.

 

[ZOMBIE@CTESPN]

Get ready for flag football in 10 years.

3 and a halve hours of commercials halve hour of flag football

 

[Chicoman]

I wonder if they will differentiate as they did in rugby.

if it save our rbs, wrs and qbs from lower body injuries, so be it.

 

[inchibearfan]

The defender cannot land on the QB and now cannot hip drop one, how are they supposed to tackle now?

 

[nc0gnet0]

 

[Toast88]

All the more reason to focus on building a modern offense.

 

[JesusHalasChrist]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1772292176904437981

 

[Chicoman]

median team tackles per game is 61.5 x 2 x 16 games per week x 17 weeks = 33456 tackles per season


230 infractions last year/33456 tackles per season =
0.7% of all tackles
less than 1 tackle per game.

Think it will be ok, but would like for Bears to win one before flags

 

[Nelly]

Get ready for flag football in 10 years.

It's not in anyone's interest to have guys getting hurt, let alone seriously injured. It'll always be a risk of the game, or any physical game for that matter, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't try to remove preventable injuries from the game.

Or to put it another way, I wonder what some people said when gladiator combat went away. "Oh those pussies not wanting to die for our entertainment!"

 

[zabavka]

Get ready for flag football in 10 years.

Pro Bowl is already flag football.

They have planted the seed.

 

[NCChiFan]

My prediction is that this will be called very inconsistently. Bold, I know.

This is crazy. I've 100% done versions of the hip drop many many years ago when I played. I don't think all variations are equal. I've done something similar to this.

I've also done that but instead of leaving my feet whipped them to the ground by planting my feet, grabbing by the hips and whipping them to the ground. Grab hips, plant feet, and whip/spin to the ground via their hips with my hands/arms. Also, if I'm running at someone at a bad angle I might be able to get a hold of their far hip and then the near hip and whip them down. This is crazy.

I wonder if they will differentiate as they did in rugby.

if it save our rbs, wrs and qbs from lower body injuries, so be it.

So, don't touch the hips, dive for the back of the legs only? That right? That going to help?

 

[clenbuterol_clint]

id probably go ahead and draft bowers after this lol

 

[Rustysurf83]

Teams are seriously about to start scoring 80 pts a game. I get that it is a dangerous technique but this makes it far more difficult for defenders to tackle from behind. I wonder if this is going to increase the value of running backs. A guy like Derrick Henry, he’s basically gone once he breaks the second level.