{"id":480742,"date":"2024-03-22T01:17:06","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T05:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=480742"},"modified":"2024-03-22T01:17:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T05:17:06","slug":"nfl-referees-support-proposed-hip-drop-tackle-rule-change","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/nfl-referees-support-proposed-hip-drop-tackle-rule-change\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL referees support proposed hip-drop tackle rule change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National Football League referees answered today to protests over a proposal to outlaw a version of the &#8220;hip-drop tackle,&#8221; a technique the NFL claims has resulted in an injury rate that is up to 25 times higher than on tackles when it is not performed.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">On a conference call before the NFL Annual Meeting, Competition Committee chairman Rich McKay says of the attempts to ban the Hip-Drop tackle: &quot;We tried to draft it very specifically and we were quick to say, it&#39;s hard to see all the elements. So No. 1 thing is to get the\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapSheet\/status\/1770890494958072246?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 21, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As gatekeepers of football, this is something that must be forbidden in the NFL,&#8221; claimed Troy Vincent, the National Football League\u2019s executive vice president of football operations, during a conference call with the media.<\/p>\n<p>The league player association joined many current and ex-footballers in objecting to the proposal a few days ago, which needs approval from 24 chiefs to become fact. They shared that he rule would cause confusion among footballers, managers, referees and supporters.<\/p>\n<p>McKay added that top priority is get a rule on the books that can be enforced at the beginning of the next week and to ban the technique in NFL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Football League referees answered today to protests over a proposal to outlaw a version of the &#8220;hip-drop tackle,&#8221; a technique the NFL [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":480743,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17324],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[17873],"acf":{"announce":"The officials in the league backed the rule change after protests.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/480742"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480742"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/480742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":480745,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/480742\/revisions\/480745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480742"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=480742"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=480742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}