JJ Watt GETS HEATED At People Calling For NFL To Ban "Hip Drop Tackles" | Pat McAfee Show 

It’s funny how the NFL is hellbent over banning all these tackles that not one NFL player is complaining about but won’t touch the issue on banning turf when almost every player complains about it.

It's crazy that we get to watch football destroy itself in real time.

The NFL thinks they can stop injuries and the funny thing is with all their precautions we're on the 60th QB starting this year.

Let's ban certain tackles because they're dangerous, but continue to have dangerous surfaces that our players break their ligaments and bones on almost every single week. It makes no sense to me. Not to mention, just having to play on a short week (sometimes two or three timers per year) is also contributing to a lot of injuries, but they won't do anything about that either.

I swear these guys are going to turn JJ into the incredible hulk pushing his buttons 😂

JJs segment has quickly become such a highlight of the show every week

NFL will be national Flagfootball league soon enough

Glad he called out the NFL's hypocrisy of playing on Thursdays. It's all such bs.

I remember watching Pros vs Joes . The guy (s) they had trying to tackle former Falcon Jamal Anderson didn't stand a chance and even as a 50 yr old man Herschel Walker was still running guys over so just imagine how hard it is to tackle a NFL player in their prime

Don’t go low, don’t go high, don’t lead with helmet, don’t hit their helmet, no horse collar, no hip drop. Good luck to defense.

The NFLs best days are long gone

Defense: "THEYTOOKOURJOBS!"

One of my favorite sports shows to watch. Living for Toxicity and violence they choose. The Lou Holtz interveing Lou Holtz may absolute favorite

Derrick Henry is officially untackleable if they "outlaw" that lol

For those who don’t know, what they are calling a “hip drop tackle” is when a player wraps up a player and then sits down essentially. SOMETIMES it can catch feet which SOMETIMES leads to injury. Completely braindead to even consider banning it, especially when the only alternative is perfect form wrestling takedown tackles. Everyone is so soft, this is such a joke

So you can't "horse collar" and now they want to ban "hip dropping" (otherwise known as "tackling")...so how exactly are you supposed to tackle someone from behind without giving up 15 extra yards on every play? I guess they have to start putting flags on the offensive players...

NFL becoming the NBA- All Offense No Defense

It already feels like watching a fixed boxing match

It’s a tackle. Defenses are already hamstringed with all the rules. They would be dumb to ban the hip drop

Tell em JJ!!! MUCH RESPECT!!!❤❤❤

Most rules changes lately are specifically aimed at weakening the defense. Hate it. But love JJ's shirt!

Welcome to the average man’s workforce JJ. Decisions being made by people that have never dont the job.

Hip Drop tackles are something that got banned in rugby league a few years back. from then to now the same conversation you guys had over this are had here in australia about the rugby league Hipdrops, there is still alot of confusion... there is proof that it causes injuries, but there's also others that aren't dangerous that get called. Importantly in both sports the tackle wasn't an issue until other types of tackles were banned and that happened because of court cases against various leagues for not protecting players enough. It sucks but so does having your leg broken so its an unsolvable problem

The referees should focus on: if the swivel hip-drop tackle was necessary to bring the player down or not. If it wasn't necessary, then it should be a penalty.

Butkus,Deacon Jones,Nitschke,Night Train Lane,and Jack Tatum are all spinning in their graves right now.........

These guys are the awesome 👏 just got turned on to your show. Top notch talent 👊

the players assoc. sued the NFL over concussions and are now confused about these rule changes, wild.

JJ's face when Pat is explaining the tackle :D

2 hands tag!! Hell yeah

Love JJ!! So real always have been

This is more proof that the nfl doesn’t care and is not going to fix the officiating issues. If they really wanted to fix it, they wouldn’t be adding more rules that will make the refs job harder.

Love JJ's flabbergasted response. That seems appropriate.

The problem is not the form of the tackle; the problem is the ground. Earth and grass minimize injuries, across the board. If the league *truly* cared about player safety, in any small way, they would eliminate artificial surfaces.

Warren Sharp didn't make up the term, it comes from the NRL - the Rugby League competition in Australia/New Zealand. What people advocating for hip drop rules won't tell you is that when the NRL made rules about it, they fucked it up so badly that they had to change their interpretations mid-season. Simple tackles where the ball carrier made a half break but couldn't get completely free of the tackler ended up getting called 'hip drops' because the ball carrier's momentum fighting through contact swung the tackler into the ball carriers legs. Also worth noting that it was only necessary to bring those rules into Rugby League because of other stupid rules encouraging players to be held up and then brought to ground with precision timing to benefit the defense (giving more time for them to get set for the next play). The NFL does not have this situation as there is a definitive stop to play after a tackle is made (and the defense doesn't have to drop back 10 metres after every play), so there is no inherent incentive to perform a hip drop, unlike in Rugby League. It's just a totally different situation. It's just not worth opening a can of worms for a play that isn't actually a systemic problem in the NFL. If it does happen, the way they define hip drops has to be very narrow criteria (completely stopped momentum, initial contact above the waist, drops weight directly and forcefully onto the ball carriers lower body after momentum has stopped - ALL OF THOSE THINGS NEED TO BE PRESENT) with a very high bar, basically only for plays that the defender could reasonably only be trying to hurt the ball carrier.

They need to narrow the field to give the defense some advantage

When these topics come up, my first thought is the South Park "Sarcastaball" episode.

AJ looks so pleased someone besides him is saying this out loud.

I am more worried about the turf. I had to give up all my rec sports in my 40s because running around on that concrete with the shredded up tire bits, my knee felt like it was going to blow out from the inside

The NFL needs to be very careful to not entirely ruin the sport, because some would argue it’s already there… but if you can’t grab somebody and try to fall down with them… what are we allowed to do

Watching this I only have 1 thought.. We will have to endure Roger's dumb rule changes, but after the Goodell era I'm hoping we get an actual former NFL player as a commish

I didn't know what a hip drop tackle was till this video and had to Google it. My take is this and quoting from Denzel in Remember The Titans.... "Let the boys play! "

Its gonna move to practice rules, two hands on a QB in the pocket is a sack, and basically any tackling is going to be flagged 🤷‍♂This is America. its about the money, not the game, or the players, or the fans.

AJ over there laughing in complete agreement

“Player safety” is ruining the NFL and it’s disgusting. The NFL is already unrecognizable from what it was 10 years ago

Watt said don't piss on me and tell me it's raining son

Sorry i played ball for ages and never employed a hip drop tackle. Didn’t really ever experience one either. It’s the same argument of the horse collar. Slippery slope fallacy.

1:55 JJ Watt saying the Quiet Part out loud

It's a variation of the "turd-drop tackle" just a little less nasty..People have been known to slip and get hurt on those things.

We’re on the road to having puppy bowls every week.

Main rule that needs to be removed is the slide rules. If a qb runs he gets the same treatment a rb, wr, or anyone else gets. Once they end that bs then we'll see how many of these mobile qbs really turn out.

Sounds like something arbitrary that the Referees will call whenever the wrong team is doing well. Football without violence is boring

If you don't want to get hit or hurt playing football then you always have the option to slide and give yourself up. The NFL won't turn into flag football, it's going to turn into the NBA. Casual viewers don't care about sports, they just want to see scoring.

At this rate, the NFL will help the fans move away from watching it.

Doesn’t “turf” cause more injuries than tackling?

They’ve been a thing in rugby league in Australia for the last two years. Only difference is NRLs definition is weight onto the back of the legs. NFL I think is worried about weight on the side of the legs. By the way the enforcement of hip drop tackles in the NRL hasn’t gone particularly well

I came here to see a demo of a 'hip drop tackle' ... I didn't see one, c'mon!! :p

I love how pissed jj is he didn’t give af about being political with the league

These alligator rolls are trending, busting ankles all over.

That's the tackle that has caused everything gruesome leg break. That's how Jordan Travis broke his leg, and I saw a close call today.

Anyone else hear Freddie Prinze Jr's voice when JJ talks?? Lol I just noticed it

More than 40 years of legislating the FOOTBALL out of football. No wonder so many of us only rarely tune in anymore.

This is like a few years ago when then NFL didn't know what a catch was. It's going to be a highly debatable rule that can't be called consistently because it's too vague.

It is funny when you see rich folks have to deal with bureaucratic/managerial shlt that we have to deal with on a daily basis.

NFL need to listen to this

JJ was seeing Red lol

If that doesn't justify excessive pay raises, then what does?🙄

Apparently a hip drop tackle is the defensive player approaches from behind or the side, wraps his arms around the offensive player and becomes dead weight while dropping to the ground. Often, the defensive player's body lands on the offensive player's legs. But I agree with JJ like no one really knows this was a thing and at some point you're just nit-picking

they tracked injures and 1 in 10 hip tackles results in the offensive player getting injured

I don’t know if you can do that but it is nasty when you see someone get immediately yanked down from behind and the knees get ripped apart. Same reason horse collar got banned. But I mean.. how do you bring someone down from behind without dropping your weight down?

How do get a player down if they ban most forms of stopping the offense.

It’s gonna be very soon NFFL National Flag Football League.

need to have practices and training camp to be allowed to actually get guys ready for the contact of football

It's easy, go look up the tackle that knocked out Riley Leonard's season (Duke QB playing Notre Dame). That's a hip drop tackle.

Yeah J.J. is right. "This former player that we've paid says its a problem"

Crazy that the NFL doesn’t realize they have tons and tons of problems that need to be addressed ASAP (refs, gambling, and this for example) but since they are making so much money and “smash ratings” every year they don’t see there is a problem at all until it’s too late like Disney with Star Wars and Marvel

sooner or later ur gonna have to let them walk in the endzone😂

Spot on take!

everyone was glad JJ was on the other side of the camera, he was getting riled up.

Let's just ban all tackling. That'll work.

Kinda the reason why I think miami is doing so well. feels like their offense is geared towards taking advantage of the "safer" rules. It used to be if you lived in the middle of the field you were running the risk of not having humans left to play wide receiver by the end of the season. I also think last week was like the lower leg injury bowl or something. People were dropping like flies. And I'm sure someones gonna get paid to say tackle technique is the reason and not blame the turf on the field.

I know what he wants to say about the former players that allow this crap. "Smells like corruption, man."

Might as well give the defenders pomps so that they can cheer for the other side.

Countdown to when defenses just become holograms that simulate a defense.

They should just ban all tackles and Qb sneaks

The only hip tackle I can point out after 20+ years of watching and living football is the injury to Dak Prescott in his MVP year against the giants and pollard against San Fran in playoffs last season with Fred Warner…. I’m a cowboys fan and I’m saying don’t ban anything, its what happens when the player refuses to go down when you tackle him. Don’t punish the defense anymore than you already have NFL

They’re just looking for more ways to selectively choose the winners of each game with penalties that could be called on every play

What they need to do is ban turf but they don’t want to address that…

As soon as one thing is banned there’s upsurge’s with other injuries , Splain that .

The tackle starts high but the ball carrier keeps moving, and you get stuck on the “love handles”! The NFL wants to ban LOVE JJ

if u Google Hip Drop Tackle....a bunch of rugby plays come up. Most looked dangerous and illegal but ive not seen those tackles in the NFL. Most were used in conjunction with a horsecollar grab which is already illegal. Don't think it needs to be emphasized but should be clearly defined because in rugby it is a dangerous technique.

Them banning the hip drop tackle is literally just to save the guys ankle from getting absolutely chicken winged. Coaches teach you to put your head to the side but to also alligator roll to ensure he gets to the ground

It’s like that episode from South Park

Lets just ban defense all together.

It probably comes from Aus and the NRL it’s a massive issue over here at the moment and was banned this year.

One of, if not the, best DBs in history.

Quarterbacks back in the day used to take pride in sucking it up and pushing through relatively rough injuries. They wanted to show they were one of the boys just like everyone else but now it’s a glamorize position as is every other offensive spot besides the line now in days, if you make football physical again, you force the players to improve, get smarter, and be more aware!

Yo pat, is espn making you wears shirts now?

Ok that was great.

love how the nfl has done all this stuff to protect players yet this year BY FAR has the most injuries especially to QB’s

All this does is promote tackling legs and causing more injuries surrounding the lower half of the body, ACL/MCL/achiles. This is why we're seeing more extended injuries on everyone. It's oddly safer to take a helmet to the chest then the legs but modern rules favor defenders tackling lower and lower. Defenders are trying to make sure they don't get a helmet to helmet fine from an offensive player lowering their helmet by bracing for an impact. Also the "hip drop" tackle is also a way to prevent unnecessary roughness and all the other things defenders have to tip toe around.