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Dr. Allen Sills, the NFL’s chief medical officer, said today that the techniques used on those tackles, in which the defender grabs the ball carrier from behind and then pulls him down while dropping the tackler’s own body to the ground, could be eliminated. That type of tackle, known in rugby as a “hip-drop tackle,” was banned by the National Rugby League in Australia because of the injuries it caused. |
If we're not there already.
It's hard enough tackling at the speed they are going at.
If we're not there already.
Not just officiate. Players performing.
If we're not there already.
So, how exactly are you supposed to tackle a guy when you're running behind him? Certainly diving onto the back of their legs is more dangerous. I guess you have to grab their shirt, as long as it's not by the collar, and hope it's not a tear away version.
Just go to flag football now. Maybe that's why they are doing that game at the Pro Bowl, to see how fans react.
I do get why they'd consider banning it, it looks like a very dangerous play for the offensive players' legs. But at the same time, eliminating it would once again make offense easier.
They'll never do it but they really need to go back the defensive holding rules prior to Peyton and Polian whining about it.
You're gonna have the defensive player making snap decisions on how to tackle as huge running backs are lowering the shoulder
Damn I miss the 70s with Tatum, lambert, the mad stork etc
No tackling below the knees.
Just make ALL jerseys with a TACKLING ZONE.
Outside the ZONE, yellow flag.
Little people as RB and WR: a flag every time.
they do this in many sports, namely boxing.
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After the championship games I'm considering just walking away. At this point I pretty much just watch the Giants but the officiating is just terrible. And I don't understand it. College football officiating is fine.
Way too many rules in the NFL. No one watches to see 15 flags thrown. Especially in the playoffs.
You can pretend football isn't a violent sport but you would be wrong. Guys are still getting concussed and still suffering significant long term injuries. The only way you completely get rid of that is playing flag football.
By all means take reasonable measures to make play safer but the reality is at a certain point you take away from the quality of the game. And all of the illegal contact, defensive holding calls including on linemen and PI's aren't making the game safer. They're incentivizing points being scored and making the game harder to watch.
However I do no think this one makes sense. What is the tackler supposed to do it if he grabbed the waist and is being dragged let go? No you drop our hips to add weight into your grab..
It looked like he might have been actively avoiding being called for landing on the qb or something by dropping to the ground away from his body.
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If we're not there already.
Thanks for that link. Explains it clearly. That said, I share the concern over too many rules.
I agree that all the techniques to avoid injury makes football weird. Like, why tackle then at all???
As mentioned, it changed the course of OBJ's career. Also how Dave Tollefson broke DeMarco Murray's ankle in the first quarter of the famous "JPP blocked FG" game.
This season, Daniel Jones was knocked out of the Bears game with a hip drop on a bootleg and was lucky to escape serious injury.
Arden Key was definitely intending to injure Mahomes. That play possibly could have been penalized under existing roughing the passer rules if Mahomes was deemed in the pocket, but, under existing rules, there is no protection for other players or for QBs when out of the pocket.
I've indexed the Bears-Giants highlights to the Jones play, which is a clear example.
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As mentioned, it changed the course of OBJ's career. Also how Dave Tollefson broke DeMarco Murray's ankle in the first quarter of the famous "JPP blocked FG" game.
This season, Daniel Jones was knocked out of the Bears game with a hip drop on a bootleg and was lucky to escape serious injury.
Arden Key was definitely intending to injure Mahomes. That play possibly could have been penalized under existing roughing the passer rules if Mahomes was deemed in the pocket, but, under existing rules, there is no protection for other players or for QBs when out of the pocket.
I've indexed the Bears-Giants highlights to the Jones play, which is a clear example. link - ( New Window )
It will soon be easier to not tackle than make a tackle. Two hand touch is soon to appear.
they do this in many sports, namely boxing.
Yea and Pop Warner too. Is that where we are going?
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not here, necessarily. But the NFL needs to institute weigh-in numbers for positions. There needs to be a metric on how much you can weigh an any position, or otherwise be classified as a different position.
they do this in many sports, namely boxing.
Yea and Pop Warner too. Is that where we are going?
The actually stopped doing it in youth football.
that being said idk how they can do this
They need to protect the players, but they also need to maintain the allure of the game.
Which in a lot of ways is the inherent violence.
I don't know the answer, but they need to figure out a way to have these competing interests coexist.
There is no easy answer...