This will only lead to more frustration and on-field incompetence, so the league will probably go through with it.
late in the second quarter of Sunday's divisional round game. Pollard suffered a fractured fibula and a high ankle sprain on the play; he'll need serious surgery., is when Ward drops his hips to help him pull down Pollard and lands on the running back’s ankle. The league will look at the"mechanics of the tackle in Pollard's case," according to the Post.
Defenders' jobs in the NFL are already hard enough. Roughing the passer is called so aggressively thatof Dak Prescott rather than risking a penalty. Players who have been coached"low man wins" their whole lives would now have to work around a significant asterisk on"low." This isn’t to say that a player dropping their full weight on an opponent’s leg should be encouraged, but dropping one’s hips during a tackle from behind is how you get an opponent to the ground when upper body strength isn’t enough. Meanwhile, offensive players would still have nearly a full license to wriggle their way out of tackles.
Banning the hip drop would just add yet another ambiguous play to the already thick tome of NFL rules, once again turning football games into law school classrooms.
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