Twitter: Hip drop tackle banned

[nate dizzle]

Oh no.

This rule is going to make this place insufferable.

30 threads a week about: "But, but, THE REFS!!!!"

I can feel the victim mentality building already.

So what is changing here, exactly?

 

[acr731]

So if they start dragging you ...... let go?

No, just resist the impulse to swing your hips and legs around in an attempt to crush the ball runners legs like what happened to Pollard and Dak.

 

[LACowboysFan1]

So if they start dragging you ...... let go?

I'm sure teams will figure out a way, maybe just loosen your arms a bit and slid down to their legs, or something like that.

In any case, it's not like players were making hip drop tackles every other play.

Rules change, some aren't quick to catch on. Years ago, while one of my kids was in youth football and the coach was talking about tackling, one of the parents jumped and tried to tell the kids the way to tackle was like he did in school (which was probably 20 years before. Like putting your face directly into the runner's chest. Well of course these days kids are taught, rightly so, to hit with your shoulder pads, so as not to have sprained and broken necks on some skinny kid with a neck like a chicken bone.

Things change....

 

[acr731]

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.

It was? Starting when? This tackle technique didn't exist when I played in high school.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

So if you try to tackle a guy around the waist, and he starts dragging you ....... do you just let go?

And this is why I don’t like it. Guys don’t intentionally drop tackle at an alarming rate. It’s making the game even softer and weaker.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

Cheap tactics by cheats. Man up and play the game like a real sportsman.

Hip drop tackling was cheating?

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

It was? Starting when? This tackle technique didn't exist when I played in high school.

Coaches definitely taught it. In high school you did whatever you could to tackle your opponent. I must’ve missed the days where coach said don’t hip drop after he taught it to us. Did you play football in Texas?

 

[speedkilz88]

I'm sure teams will figure out a way, maybe just loosen your arms a bit and slid down to their legs, or something like that.

In any case, it's not like players were making hip drop tackles every other play.

Rules change, some aren't quick to catch on. Years ago, while one of my kids was in youth football and the coach was talking about tackling, one of the parents jumped and tried to tell the kids the way to tackle was like he did in school (which was probably 20 years before. Like putting your face directly into the runner's chest. Well of course these days kids are taught, rightly so, to hit with your shoulder pads, so as not to have sprained and broken necks on some skinny kid with a neck like a chicken bone.

Things change....

Yeah, they called that form tackling. I hated those drills.

 

[acr731]

In any case, it's not like players were making hip drop tackles every other play.

No, but in some cases the players used it with the intent to injure. Take Pollard, for example. He was destroying the 9ers defense and they resorted to the only effective way to stop him. Dallas had a good chance of winning until that game changing tackle.

 

[acr731]

Coaches definitely taught it. In high school you did whatever you could to tackle your opponent. I must’ve missed the days where coach said don’t hip drop after he taught it to us. Did you play football in Texas?

Yep, in the DFW area. It was a very long time ago, though. I don't remember that technique being taught back in the late 1970's, though. You have to forgive my memory since it's going on almost 50 years ago.

 

[BoysfanfromCanada]

So if you try to tackle a guy around the waist, and he starts dragging you ....... do you just let go?

You just can't drop your entire weight on his trailing legs, you can fall to the side or where ever. I've never seen a single cowboys player do it, so it's nothing you'll miss. But some in the nfl do it (Niners, Seahawks especially). We've seen the brunt of it on Pollard and Allen Hurns leg breaks.

 

[Pantone282C]

Hip drop tackling was cheating?

Technically, no. Just cheap.

 

[Sjoseph316]

This is the most ridiculous rule ever, at this point just put flags on.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

Yep, in the DFW area. It was a very long time ago, though. I don't remember that technique being taught back in the late 1970's, though. You have to forgive my memory since it's going on almost 50 years ago.

Understood. I don’t even remember my username and pass for this site lol….

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

Technically, no. Just cheap.

I mean I hate when a guy gets hurt from it. But I never felt guys did this to hurt people. Horse collar was far worse so I get.

 

[acr731]

We've seen the brunt of it on Pollard and Allen Hurns leg breaks.

The tackle on Dak was a poor attempt at a hip drop.... it ended up snapping Dak's ankle instead.

:20 second mark

 

[Brax]

Good! It's long overdue. That cattle wrangling type of "tackling" was breaking legs and tearing too many tendons. Ending careers as well. That's not how you're taught to tackle. The sport of football will be better and safer for it.

The NFLPA disagrees with you, it’s how players have tackled since football began. The players don’t want it changed, guess you never played defense. Just one more way to handicap the defense. The rule changes keep diluting the game to the point that why even have a D on the field it’s getting to the point where scores will be in the 40s every game.

 

[speedkilz88]

I mean I hate when a guy gets hurt from it. But I never felt guys did this to hurt people. Horse collar was far worse so I get.

You don't think there are players willing to knock an opponent out of a game to ensure they win?

 

[acr731]

But I never felt guys did this to hurt people.

What do you think would happen to your legs if a 250 pound man threw the entire weight of his body onto the back of them? I think the players who use this technique know exactly what they are trying to do. But that's just my opinion, and I admit I'm being biased because of what happened to Pollard and Dak.

 

[Pantone282C]

I mean I hate when a guy gets hurt from it. But I never felt guys did this to hurt people. Horse collar was far worse so I get.

Sure. The Clothesline Tackle as well. But, most players aren't trying to hurt other players. But, I have to say I think some are. That was a seriously questionable tackle of Romo by Avril in a preseason game.