Anyone else happy they didn't enforce hip-drop tackle as penalty?

[BrassCowboy]

I also am glad they didn't. Tired of the NFL watering down the game with new rules every year. Need to remove rules at this point and let these players play the game.

 

[CowboyRoy]

I for one am glad, they chose not to do it. I cant imagine seeing 60 flags a game. Since its such ambiguous form of tackling.

Dont think the defensive player plans it out. Is happens spontaneously, in milliseconds. Your job is to bring defender down. Long
as you dont involve the facemask.

I understand the tackle on Pollard was hip-drop tackle. I was so bummed and angry about it. Took Dallas momentum out of the game.
Nonetheless, I saw SF tackler just doing what he could to bring TP down. TP fighting further might of worsen the situation leading to hip tackle. Not sure, though.

You guys feel the same?

NO, I was hoping they would do it. I have been hating that type of tackle for years. Thats how lots of guys get hurt. Its a dirty play.

 

[CowboyRoy]

I do. The last thing the NFL needs is another subjective penalty.

Simple physics/momentum can result in a "hip drop" tackle that wasn't otherwise intentional.

Its very simple. Its when you have a hold of the guy with your hands on his upper body and then you swing your legs down using all your weight and momentum to cut his legs out.

 

[CowboyRoy]

I saw it too ,It appeared SFs game plan was to take him out of the game .

Yep, all they had to do was get Zeke in the game in it was over.

 

[88sAndHeartbreak]

Proper drop hip tackling can be coached, and dropping your body weight on the back of a players legs has always been dangerous (torn ligaments in knees, ankles, broken legs, etc.). So I can see why the Pollard tackle is looking like the last straw for not enforcing it.

I get it though, enforcing a new rule will take some getting use to for everyone... but at the end of the day these players are human beings, with families and a have future after football.

Football isn't life for these people. Sorry not sorry.

 

[Captain-Crash]

It's part of the game, it doesn't bother me.

 

[Fmart322]

It's a dirty style of tackling if you ask me. The hit on pollard looked real bad. If the Cowboys adopted that style of tackling there's no doubt it would be banned.

 

[TwoDeep3]

The hip drop and the horse collar have a similar component which allows the tackler to swing his body into the back of the legs of the ball carrier. This tackle was outlawed by the league when Roy Williams was doing it.

Funny how when a Dallas running back is tackled in a fashion which broke something in Pollard's leg, the machinations to outlaw this blatant tackle which has a greater potential to injure goes to the wayside without a whimper.

I do not agree with the people in this thread who argue for this because the game is tough. Will it take a career ending injury for folks to see this as what it is?

 

[TwoDeep3]

..it would probably be more circumstantial if followed. But I agree to what your saying. SF lowered their kilts on TP, knowing he was gashing them late in game.

One word, *******s.

It was the second quarter. Has late in the game changed it's meaning?

 

[dogberry]

Are we teaching our defenders the 49er technique?