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

These kind of tackles commonly roll up players’ legs and ankles more than people think. It’s usually season ending injuries or automatic significant time missed. I can see why it’s banned. I saw it happen to Mark Andrews. It’s happens to RBs a lot. I think I remember seeing someone try to bring Olave down with a hip drop. A team’s best offensive skill player gets taken out the game when defenders become frustrated/lazy at tackling and resort to hip drops.

I understand the “how should they tackle” side. Defenders should also rely on actual sound tackling technique. Instead of pulling/twisting a player’s upper body and putting their weight on to ballcarriers’ lower body areas prone to injury. They’re very aware of what they’re doing. They get desperate to bring a player down in extreme ways when the ballcarrier’s gotten past them instead of actually tackling or grabbing the runner’s legs at that point.


I agree to a point but Tom Brady told us players aren't taught how to protect themselves anymore.



Because everything is being "regulated," fundamentals are no longer taught, now we have more injuries because offensive players don't know how to protect themselves.