Reacting to NFL owners approving a ban on the swivel hip-drop tackle | First Take
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Published 2024-03-25
On First Take, Robert Griffin III, Andrew Hawkins and Shannon Sharpe discuss the news of NFL team owners approving a rule proposal to ban the swivel hip-drop tackle.
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All Comments (21)
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The defense should boycott leaguewide week 1 and just let teams score on every play
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Getting paid millions to play flag football is crazy
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Hip dropped, Molly wapped and spun on my top😂😂😂😂
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Hawkins last comment is key. The owners will ban things the players do, fine the players for doing things, but they don't want to do anything that would require them to open their pocket books up and spend money to remove astroturf and make the fields safe to play on, something that would actually safeguard the players.
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'Hip drop, Molly Wop, spun on my top" RG3 when's the album dropping?
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AJ Hawk said it best: “They can’t even clearly define what a hip drop tackle is but they somehow have stats on it?!?”.
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Pretending they care about player safety when it’s obviously just another control tactic.
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I have been watching football on Sundays, my entire life. I had never heard the term, 'Hip-drop tackle' until this rule was passed. I had to look it up. It looks like a harmless tackle from the fan perspective. That was a good question, "who asked for this?"
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the fact that there are comments here supporting the ban is embarrassing
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Derrick Henry is about to shatter whatever the rushing record is for a 30 year old running back now
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The problem is that this has nothing to do with safety. Guys pop achilles on non contact plays but they won’t eliminate turf because turf is cost efficient. It’s always about money. That Mark Andrews play happened on TNF so everybody saw it and it was spotlighted. Stars getting injured ultimately hurts income potential. Brazil, Mexico, London, Germany is all to increase revenue and they need stars healthy to play in those games and for games to be 35-31 vs 7-3
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refreshing to see offensive guys backing defenders. I will never understand how the NFL expects defensive players to both protect offensive players and stop offensive players at the same time. They're not asking offensive players to stop fighting for extra yards or get down when a hit is inevitable which would solve almost all the hip drop tackles overnight. No they want the defenders to protect their opponents. Nonsense
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So we ban hip drop tackles due to injury stats... But we ignore the turf non contact stats.... got it
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Rumor has it, getting hit by a moving 230 pound human-being, increases chances of injury by 100%
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The worst part about this ban, is how the refs will use this new rule to rig games
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Haven’t seen hip drop tackles for real until they basically banned formed tackling
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Aren’t people only tackling this way because they’re making other ways of tackling more difficult ? Idk
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Greatest lower extremity injury isn't the hip drop tackle...it's this synthetic grass/turf they play on. Just ask Dre Greenlaw...
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Shannon goes from a 25% increased injury rate to 25x injury rate?? So 25% vs 2,500%??
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If the NFL is gonna be serious about safety they need to stop turning a blind eye to players complaining about the turf.
