NFL owners voted to ban the hip-drop tackle on Monday during the league's Annual League Meeting in Orlando, Fla., NFL Network Insiders Ian Rapoport and Tom Pelissero reported.
It’s dirty, intended to hurt people, and not effective really on any level as a football play. I’m all for the ban.
I think they should have the booth weigh in on personal fouls when they throw the flag, personally. You’re already stopping it. The commentary from former officials with horse collar is still pretty bad, with them justifying calls that aren’t that close, so I’m not sure the booth will help, but you should have the layer anyways.
I’m also on the Bill Belichick “allow anything to be reviewed” train. Have a ref with camera access who can assist the team to make corrections in real time without stopping anything, and allow the challenge flag to be applied to anything at any time. If they want to use it on an automatically reviewed play because they think you missed something, who cares? They only get two or three.
I agree with you on all of the above. Also I think any successful challenge should be refunded. Silly that you can successfully challenge one play, but then not get it on the second challenge, and then not be allowed to challenge again the rest of the game. When if the order was reversed you would still have a challenge.
It’s dirty, intended to hurt people, and not effective really on any level as a football play. I’m all for the ban.
I think they should have the booth weigh in on personal fouls when they throw the flag, personally. You’re already stopping it. The commentary from former officials with horse collar is still pretty bad, with them justifying calls that aren’t that close, so I’m not sure the booth will help, but you should have the layer anyways.
I’m also on the Bill Belichick “allow anything to be reviewed” train. Have a ref with camera access who can assist the team to make corrections in real time without stopping anything, and allow the challenge flag to be applied to anything at any time. If they want to use it on an automatically reviewed play because they think you missed something, who cares? They only get two or three.
I agree with you on all of the above. Also I think any successful challenge should be refunded. Silly that you can successfully challenge one play, but then not get it on the second challenge, and then not be allowed to challenge again the rest of the game. When if the order was reversed you would still have a challenge.