RSkinGM Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 Hip drop-kinda know it when I see it buy hard pressed to define it . Gonna be a debacle me thinks. Kickoffs really weird . Touchbacks penalized as the ball comes out to the 30 yard line . Joey Slye just became obsolete ! Kicks should land between the 20 and the end zone. O B kicks or shorter kicks come out to the 40 . The kicker kicks from his 35 and everyone else lines up at the other teams 40 . Nobody can move until the ball lands or is touched. No fair catches . 2 max returners . ( We need to find a dynamic return guy-gonna be a big deal now ! ) I'm sure I've missed something but that's a quick overview. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
e16bball Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 I really don’t even know what a “hip drop tackle” is. I guess I’d be in favor of less injuries, but…seems like it’s awfully hard to tackle guys as it is. I’m excited for any change to the kickoff situation. I’ve always been a huge fan of returns (and returners), and the constant touchbacks were extremely lame and boring. Getting more returns going would definitely bring back some excitement, for me at least. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaiphoon Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 This guy argues against it for the most part. But it's not hard to understand. We're not talking about tackling from behind. We're talking about grabbing the player and then lifting your body up so that you no longer contact the ground and then you let gravity pull him down. Usually with the defender having all his weight falling on the offensive player's legs and many times resulting in injury. Think of it as a horse collar type of tackle that starts down below the shoulder instead of the shoulder pads. Same thing in terms of player safety. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaiphoon Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 I'm a hater of a lot of penalties and how they've been called the last few years (some of the "roughing the passer" stuff is ludicrous), but I put this up with the horse collar as something that doesn't need to be in the defensive player's handbook on how to bring a player down. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
offbyone Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 The new kickoff rule is way to complicated. Too many changes. Why don't they just say if the ball goes straight into endzone then touchback on 30 to encourage teams to try to put it in play. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turtle28 Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 Jordan Travis got his leg broken on a hip drop tackle. I don't think it's needed but I hate to see more penalties called on the defense. I'm neutral on it tbh. I'm excited about the kick off change. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaiphoon Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 2 hours ago, turtle28 said: Jordan Travis got his leg broken on a hip drop tackle. I don't think it's needed but I hate to see more penalties called on the defense. I'm neutral on it tbh. I'm excited about the kick off change. The stat I saw said that it happens on average about 8 times a season (per team). IF (and I want to state that I did not vet that statistic) that is true, then it won't affect the games very much. But it will definitely improve player safety. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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