Baltimore Raven's coach John Harbaugh says the hip-drop tackle, which was recently removed from the game, is a 'really a bad play, and it needed to be out.'
Jamison Hensley is a reporter covering the Baltimore Ravens for ESPN. Jamison joined ESPN in 2011, covering the AFC North before focusing exclusively on the Ravens beginning in 2013. Jamison won the National Sports Media Association Maryland Sportswriter of the Year award in 2018, and he authored a book titled: Flying High: Stories of the Baltimore Ravens. He was the Ravens beat writer for the Baltimore Sun from 2000-2011.
On March 25, NFL owners voted unanimously at the annual league meeting to remove the hip-drop tackle from the game. The violation will result in a 15-yard penalty if flagged in games, but Troy Vincent, the NFL's executive vice president of football operations, strongly implied last week that it is likely to be enforced similarly to the"use of helmet" rule, which typically leads to warning letters and fines in the week after a game rather than flags during play.
Last month, NFL executive Jeff Miller said the hip-drop tackle was used 230 times last season and resulted in 15 players missing time because of injuries. The NFL Players Association has "When did you ever hear about the hip-drop tackle until like two years ago, three years ago, right?" Harbaugh said."That's because it was discovered, probably, in rugby and started being executed as a standalone technique. It's a three-part movement, you've got to execute that play. You've got to be close enough to that ball carrier to actually get him around the hips, pull him close to yourself, swing your hips through and drop on the back of his legs.
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