BR: NFL Rumors: Competition Committee 'Aligned' on Changing Rule for Hip-Drop Tackles

[America's Cowboy]

NFL Rumors: Competition Committee 'Aligned' on Changing Rule for Hip-Drop Tackles​

ANDREW PETERSFEBRUARY 25, 2024

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The NFL Competition Committee is reportedly working to remove hip-drop tackles with a new rule, per NFL.com's Judy Battista.

According to Battista, the committee is "aligned" on getting rid of hip-drop tackles but is still working on figuring out the right language for the new rule.

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[plymkr]

That’s good. Anything that promotes player safety. Seeing TP get his leg broken and how it affected his play was rough. Injuries like that can alter careers, keep guys from getting contracts.

 

[America's Cowboy]

That’s good. Anything that promotes player safety. Seeing TP get his leg broken and how it affected his play was rough. Injuries like that can alter careers, keep guys from getting contracts.

Agreed. That's also how Dak had his leg broken at a 90° compound fracture. Almost cost him his career. Numerous other teams' players have suffered serious injuries due to such a dangerous way of tackling. It's worse than a horse collar.

 

[TequilaCowboy]

This is one rule i would agree with and makes a lot of sense. Not like some other rules on tackles. They've always looked dangerous to me. And most of the time, they were done intentionally to hurt a player.

 

[jwitten82]

NFL Rumors: Competition Committee 'Aligned' on Changing Rule for Hip-Drop Tackles​

ANDREW PETERSFEBRUARY 25, 2024

Ryan Kang/Getty Images

The NFL Competition Committee is reportedly working to remove hip-drop tackles with a new rule, per NFL.com's Judy Battista.

According to Battista, the committee is "aligned" on getting rid of hip-drop tackles but is still working on figuring out the right language for the new rule.

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So what's the alternative to a smaller player tackling a bigger player from behind? Just get dragged?.... You obviously never played, and you'll be one of the main ones complaining next season about too many flags

 

[BotchedLobotomy]

While I agree with idea of making it a penalty, I am pretty confident that NFL is going to struggle with implementing it. It's not nearly as cut and dried as the horse collar tackle.

 

[Vtwin]

This will be impossible to call consistently.

 

[thunderpimp91]

I'm all for removing the tackle, I'm just skeptical its going to happen effectively. Has to be tough to find the right wording on the rule and allow for a suitable replacement tackle. I would assume those tackles from behind are going to have to have some sort of rolling motion associated with it? I'll reserve judgement until I see what the committee actually comes up with.

 

[DallasEast]

So what's the alternative to a smaller player tackling a bigger player from behind? Just get dragged?.... You obviously never played, and you'll be one of the main ones complaining next season about too many flags

Instruction must have changed since I played, although I never played college ball. My coaches instructed to tackle either:

• go chest high, wrapped up upper body, facemask up (see what I'm hitting), drive through or
• go waist low, wrapped up thighs, facemask up (drilled that into us), drive through, pull the ball carrier down, using both your weight and strength. Never slide the hold pass the knees.

Perhaps we always had enough players who could execute tackling that way because players too light and could not execute did not see the field often until they could. That was late 70's and early 80's for me.

Nowadays, it is really common seeing tacklers sliding the hold down the legs or just straight out going for the runner's ankles. Not sure what my coaches would have said about the former but they always said going too low for a tackle would likely result in a missed tackle.

 

[acr731]

That’s good. Anything that promotes player safety. Seeing TP get his leg broken and how it affected his play was rough. Injuries like that can alter careers, keep guys from getting contracts.

It ended the playoff game. SF knew what they were doing and that was their intent.

 

[Point-of-the-Star]

Too late for Dak and TP:

 

[Vtwin]

Instruction must have changed since I played, although I never played college ball. My coaches instructed to tackle either:

• go chest high, wrapped up upper body, facemask up (see what I'm hitting), drive through or
• go waist low, wrapped up thighs, facemask up (drilled that into us), drive through, pull the ball carrier down, using both your weight and strength. Never slide the hold pass the knees.

Perhaps we always had enough players who could execute tackling that way because players too light and could not execute did not see the field often until they could. That was late 70's and early 80's for me.

Nowadays, it is really common seeing tacklers sliding the hold down the legs or just straight out going for the runner's ankles. Not sure what my coaches would have said about the former but they always said going too low for a tackle would likely result in a missed tackle.

I was that light CB chasing down bigger backs and WR's from behind. I always stayed away from the knees, but sometimes it came down to either being dragged down the field or using my body weight to get the guy on the ground. Back then it was just football. Nobody ever got hurt, or complained. Got tackled that way plenty of times, as scat back/WR.

I never got All State honorable mention though, so what do I know....

 

[calico]

Just put flags on them already and get it over with already. NFL football is a poor product as is and only getting worse.

 

[Bullflop]

H-m-m, this new info is apparently living proof that the NFL's version of pro football is getting more complicated than ever. In a real way, this new rule figures to be quite necessary, although, painfully likely to increase the length of games and their complexity. It's both good and bad, imho. I guess we'll see how this new idea works out in time. Here's hoping it works out in a reasonably helpful way. The players are definitely deserving of ensuring their safety, as much as humanly possible.

 

[Ranching]

So what's the alternative to a smaller player tackling a bigger player from behind? Just get dragged?.... You obviously never played, and you'll be one of the main ones complaining next season about too many flags

Lol! He was all state in Texas....it Monday morning and you're already in attack mode. Jeez!

 

[Aerolithe_Lion]

This will be impossible to call consistently.

How it’s worded will be very interesting. If it’s anything to do with leaving your feet and using your body weight to tackle a player then lots of non-hip drops will be affected

 

[Ranching]

H-m-m, this new info is apparently living proof that the NFL's version of pro football is getting more complicated than ever. In a real way, this new rule figures to be quite necessary, although, painfully likely to increase the length of games and their complexity. It's both good and bad, imho. I guess we'll see how this new idea works out in time. Here's hoping it works out in a reasonably helpful way. The players are definitely deserving of ensuring their safety, as much as humanly possible.

Players make huge money...owners need to protect their investments. Noy really a fan of some of these rules, but I can see why they do it.

 

[Bullflop]

Just put flags on them already and get it over with already. NFL football is a poor product as is and only getting worse.

That is being said on an ever-increasingly frequent basis within the last several years. There's no question but what flag football is destined to be a universal sport in the upcoming Olympics. Of course, whether it replaces pro football, as it now exists, is yet something to be proven. The pro games' purists, as they now exist, aren't likely to be dismissed without serious objections to be considered. That situation will prove interesting.

 

[The Natural]

This will be impossible to call consistently.

When it happens, it’s too obvious to miss.

 

[FanofJerry]

I'm all for removing the tackle, I'm just skeptical its going to happen effectively. Has to be tough to find the right wording on the rule and allow for a suitable replacement tackle. I would assume those tackles from behind are going to have to have some sort of rolling motion associated with it? I'll reserve judgement until I see what the committee actually comes up with.

Thats fine. There will be growing pains getting it right. Hopefully refs dont get so loose with it that it effects out comes of games.

My personal opinion on this safety stuff is...call the penalties even if its a gray area. Just call the damn things loosely but not so loosely its effecting outcomes of games.

After a year or two players will miraculously not do the tackle as much anymore for fear of penalty.

Growing pains will suck with the flags...but who wants their leg snapped when it could be avoidable.

In a couple of years refs and players will have it down and the game will be safer for it