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