Ban the hip drop tackle?

[FY56]

NFL considering it. 

Too many injuries.

Dov Kleiman@NFL_DovKleiman

The #NFL is planning to have an "active conversation" this offseason about possibly banning the “hip drop” tackles, according to NFL's CMO Allen Sills.

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This guy gets his leg busted.

NRL PHYSIO@nrlphysio

Another victim of the hip drop tackle? Daniel Saifiti suffered a fracture of his left tibial plateau in the trial game against the Bulldogs. His last involvement in the game was this run, with the mechanism of injury typical for that fracture type (knee collapses in with contact)

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[calfoxwc]

unlike the horse-collar tackle, this is one that won't be easy to ban, I think. Too many tackles around the waist can turn into that tackle shown above. Maybe more likely, a lightweight high-strength brace to protect the knee laterall, required for rb's, te's, wr's, qb. But that is serious stress on the knee for sure. Similar to how Joe Theisman's knee injury happened.

[syd]

@calfoxwc said:

Joe Theisman's knee injury happened.

kilmer and stabler hated that guy

[ballpeen]

Maybe it should simply be that you can't tackle a player from behind.

If we keep outlawing various tackle types, there won't be any left.  Plus, that gives Refs one more way to rig the game.

I say cut the number of refs on the field to 3.

[FY56]

What are you supposed to do when the guy is much bigger than you?  Jump on their back and wait for help?

 Put flags on them and call it a day.

[SdBacker80]

No we shouldn’t modify the rules for a play that causes a handful of injuries each year. 
 

Tackling is atrocious enough and football is an inherently rough game we don’t need a rule that the refs can misinterpret and just throw their nonsense into another area of the game. 

[FY56]

Leave the hip drop be.

Ban hip hop at SB halftime shows instead.