NorthHawk wrote:There was a story that had examples of hip drop tackles provided by the NFL and DK's tackle wasn't anything close to that.
What seemed to be the theme they want taken out of the tackle is the defender swinging into the back of the legs/knees with their hip/butt, not tackling from behind.
The Wyman clip to me seemed like he was someone who didn't like the change and was purposely trying to confuse people by selecting an example and taking it to the extreme limits of what might be called.
On the other hand, they are calling Horse Collar tackles where the player isn't taken to the ground or even tackled, so maybe they will take it too far.
No call in the NFL is 100% clean or accurate when flagged. I can remember when Richard Sherman was called for a face mask on Julian Edelman, and Richard was protesting that he grabbed the jersey below the helmet and pulled Edelman around for a tackle, and replay proved that was the case, but yet he was still flagged for a face mask when he never grabbed the facemask.
I believe refs do their best to manage the game with the correct calls, but we see week after week bad no calls, or horrible calls that are clearly not the case. This new rule opens up another avenue of calls that will be close/should be called/ should not be called/ hmm iffy, and again will favor an offense at times and most likely alter the flow of the game. How many screen passes, or check downs we see on 3rd and longs and defenders will be chasing the running back/wide receiver from behind and tackle from behind that could inherently result in a rule violation and a 15 yard penalty and new set of downs.
I understand the rule is in place to protect players, but the real question is why have we not institute a more streamline process when it comes to calls vs no calls being reviewed via instant replay. How many times we have seen a play that is under review, and with all the TV angles and replays we can clearly determine the outcome with in let's say 45 secs of a couple of replays and yet it still takes the on field referee over 4 mins to make a decision. I don't disagree with the rules, but with all the high tech camera's and how fast we can process info these days why can't we get that correlated quicker on the field so we can't have messed up bad calls or no calls corrected?