As the “hip-drop” tackle becomes more and more prominent within the game of football, the NFL is looking to take aggressive steps to rid the game of it at the highest level.
Two months after NFL Executive Vice President Jeff Miller stated to reporters during league meetings in New York in October that the league was working on defining the play and then remove it from the game, Commissioner Roger Goodell doubled down on that Wednesday during the December league meeting in Irving, Texas, stating that the league needs to work “very hard” to get the tackle removed from the game this spring.