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

In my mind, a clean hip-drop tackle happens you have to try and take down a ball carrier from behind. If you grab them and then drop to the ground (sit down) to pull them down without putting weight on their lower legs, then it’s clean. The best way to make that happen is to swing your weight to either side of the ballcarrier to prevent contact with their lower legs. … But I don’t have a problem with it being a penalty if a tackler actually sits on the ballcarrier’s lower legs or swinging their legs in front of the ballcarrier to trip him.