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Related: About this forumNFL could soon ban tackling technique it says creates '25 times' the injury risk
NEW YORK Momentum is building for the NFLs next on-field rule change.
The leagues competition committee, as well as its health and safety committee, are discussing how to respond to a tackling technique that their data says results in about a 25 times rate of injury as a typical tackle, executive vice president Jeff Miller said.
The league calls the tackle in question a hip-drop tackle. If that doesnt clarify the play to you, youre not alone. The league is trying to better define what does and doesnt constitute it.
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NFL competition committee chair Rich McKay called the tackle a cousin to the horse-collar tackle, which consists of grabbing the inside collar of the back or side of an opponents shoulder pads or jersey, or the jersey at the name plate or above, to pull a runner toward the ground. A hip-drop tackle similarly involves a tackler grabbing a ball carrier from behind and pulling him down in a manner that prevents self-defense.
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yankee87
(2,335 posts)Anything they can do to make it safer. I'm 6' 9", and over 300 pounds, so of course I played the line. I was blocked at my knees almost every play, and my knees are paying the price. Those types of blocks are now illegal.
LudwigPastorius
(10,751 posts)all they can grab is the ball carrier's waist to pull him down, that is going to be illegal?
Are you telling me that the only way to tackle from behind is now going to be above the waist (but not by the shoulder pads)?
That would fundamentally alter the game and give the offense a big advantage.
True Dough
(20,140 posts)Just a bunch of torn ACLs and MCLs that occur at far too high a rate? No problem there, eh NFL?
ProfessorGAC
(69,745 posts)...hamstring injuries may be facilitated by the excessive traction on the trailing leg.
I haven't seen an update, but there was talk of it a couple years ago. Synthetic tracks for sprinters were suspected as well.