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[Tom]

When Hutchinson was on the St. Brown brothers podcast, they talked about it with him and he was like, and I’m paraphrasing, “I’m not consciously doing it, things are so fast and you’re just trying to take your opponent down…”

[froot loops]

This is what they were coaching players to do when they outlawed other type of tackles.

[jaadam4]

I get the leading with the head and the human missle shots but this one is a bit much especially at game speed.

[dpatnod]

Can they push someone downwards? In the gravitational sense, or course. Not like towards their own goal line or anything heinous like that......

[DanO]

This shows some "hip drop" tackles. I saw the video that the NFL sent out earlier but couldn't find it now. This may be it?

Regardless this is a terrible rule change.

If this is the case This is really absurd.

[ghandi]

The NFL has completely revamped kickoffs, using the XFL style....Pretty soon we wont even recognize the game anymore they are making so many changes.

[froot loops]

The NFL has been instituted changes every year as long as any of us has been watching and it has served them well. The sport that doesn't change with the times is doomed. The flip side to football is baseball, they rarely change things up. It took them 30 to 100 years to implement a pitch clock to put a stop to ever the ever increasing game length even though baseball fans complained about it for years

The kickoff in the NFL as you saw it in 2023 was neutered to the point of being nearly meaningless and had the effect of taking away onside kicks as an option. The XFL kickoff was an improvement over that.

[CGVT]

FWIW, I like the new kickoff rule.

[jaadam4]

FWIW, I like the new kickoff rule.

Yeah me too

[Cody_Russell]

Looks promising.
Are we actually going to see more kick returns with this? or more of the same when it comes to touchbacks… if so, perhaps moving the kicker back 5 yards like a decade ago would have been ideal.

Reminds me of the time when the Lions had Eddie Drummond on special teams. Rare fun from the Millen era.

[DanO]

FWIW, I like the new kickoff rule.

.................Me too.

[jaadam4]

That looks pretty awesome. Can’t wait to see it in action

[El Axe]

The kickoff rule looks like an improvement to the game, but I'll miss the spectacle of the traditional kickoff of everyone running down the field.

[Dan V]

No fair catches either now! I hated that on kickoffs

[ghandi]

No fair catches either now! I hated that on kickoffs

Agree that was a real dumb rule