NFL meeting to ban hip drop tackles.. (Update: Now banned)

Troll Hunter said

There's nothing hard hitting about a hip drop tackle. It's what you do when you can't tackle someone straight up, you hold on and drop your weight on their lower leg/ankles. It's going to be easy to enforce b/c it's pretty evident when someone does it.

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I disagree to a degree … I’m good with the hip drop … hooking your legs around front to trip a runner IS a penalty in my mind. … But grabbing them from behind and using your weight to drag them down with sitting on their ankles is good with me … takes some arm strength to pull them down without low leg contact