Its not the landing legs by itself its the pulling back on the upper body while throwing your lower body into thiers... Again if he drives forward and pollard goes face down on the tackle then the defender lands on his legs and there is no injury because everything is moving the same direction.
If you’ve ever tackled someone you’re trying to stop them as quickly as possible and that includes using your weight to bring someone down.
I think we can all agree that this post was ELITE and top 5.
Nothing the NFL has done latley hinders offenese so i dont think they will tell the RB's to give themselves up, if we are talking about avoiding this play because of injury the way they will do it is tell them to go forward with the tackle and do not try and bend the player backwards...has nothing to do with fair or unfair.
True. We want to have Doomsday III or IV or whatever it is, but there are so many rules in place that make it difficult to have that kind of defense.
I think you old timers just aren’t seeing things the way they’re trying to do it. They’re trying to keep the players on the field.
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I doubt it even gets considered, but this is an excellent point. The league could do several things to reduce this type of tackle without creating additional penalties for the defense....which is in my opinion more penalties + less defense is not a good recipe for the league in its current state. Even something like changing where officials spot the ball by making it have to do with where the runners feet are instead of the ball could work. This has a significant ripple effect that has a significant impact on how the game is played (not all in a good way), but it diminishes the need of a defender to do certain tackles that pull their weight back and makes it easier for defenders to naturally follow through with forward momentum to stop a runner.
Says the guy who pm'd me saying you hope the eagles win the Superbowl
I played and tackled more than you and never fell on people's legs.
While I'm sure that's effective, the NFL will struggle to keep its PG rating with this technique.
Are you Jason Witten? That is an elite level.
You cannot drive through a tackle if the person you are tackling is just as fast or faster than you and running away from you, the physics does not work. Pretty much if you can't get in front of the guy or come in from the side trailing would be tacklers will just let it go.
I am just repeating what the NFL is saying. They are looking at it...they will likely ban it.
