You don't know what you are talking about. Hip drop technique was the most commonly coached and taught before this made up nonsense. 99.9999999999% of hip drop tackles are safe and never injured anyone.
Stop exaggerating. This technique has been around as long as football has. It has been used literally millions of times at all levels and the vast majority of the time it is safe and there are no injuries as a result.
I would disagree with you there. I think we see hip drops multiple times every single game, but we only really notice the ones where players aren't getting up. If the refs want they could absolutely call it several times a game no problem.
Horse collar.
The problem is that NFL practices are so regulated now, they spend little time on actually tackling.
They had to go back three years to show a Cowboy make that tackle. Former Cowboy Keanu Neal.
Lawyers have ruined football for good now
Oh yeah that's it
We can agree to disagree. I'm pretty sure the competition committee isn't just making rules to make rules. Most of the tackles you are seeing probably aren't true hip drop tackles. The tackler has to intentionally spin themselves around and drop his hip into the area below the knees. It is the process of doing it below the knees and allowing their weight to crash down in that area. Most of the tackles I see the player drops the hip into the thigh area (above the knee) which will still be legal.
Just to be clear. To be labeled a hip drop tackle by the NFL definition there has to be 2 things happen. 1) The defender has to spin or swing so his hips are going in to the back of the legs of the offensive guy, 2) The hip has to make contact with the offensive player below the knees.
For the most part I think this is right. Most likely there is a major emphasis to call it early on and as the season goes it's less and less until it's maybe called once a week among all games in the league.
Yeah and as I read back over my initial post I worded it kinda poorly from what I was actually trying to say. I see tons of hip drop style tackles throughout the year, but not all of those will fall under what this rule is trying to prevent. I agree that very few will be called overall, what I think will happen is defenders will adjust the technique to avoid falling on the legs of the ball carrier. I think if anything fans will be upset about the number of non calls on this rule when they feel their player was tackled with a hip drop.
Yeah the horse collar and the hip drop are both bad techniques. I could see why a player like Roy Williams would use the horse collar because he was so damn strong he could break a ballcarrier in half with one hand. Much as I hated what it did to Roy I recognize and accept that it's better gone from the game. The hip drop is the opposite. It allows a smaller (weaker) player to use his body weight on the legs of the ballcarrier to bring him down. If this rule had been in place in 2020 we might not have lost Dak and in 2022 we might have had Pollard for the whole playoff game. So this is that rare case where a rule change might BENEFIT the Cowboys. Expect it to be repealed within two weeks if it ever helps us win a game.
Cheap tactics by cheats. Man up and play the game like a real sportsman.
