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PFT Live with Mike Florio

Competition Committee proposed making hip-drop tackles a 15-yard penalty + Should Marvin Harrison Jr. have participated in Pro Day? (3/21 Hour 2)

PFT Live with Mike Florio

Mike Florio

Sports

4.31.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Hour 2: Mike Florio (@ProFootballTalk) and Chris Simms (@CSimmsQB) discuss latest news in NFL including Competition Committee proposed a revamped kickoff, Competition Committee proposed making hip-drop tackles a 15-yard penalty and NFLPA release statement opposing hip-drop tackle proposal.

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0:00.0

kickoff. Where are we going to go with the kickoff in 2024?

0:05.0

Well, we've met with the special team coaches this past Sunday.

0:09.0

That is we being the competition committee.

0:11.0

They briefed the committee on what they've researched from

0:16.0

the CFL, the USFL, the XFL, what has worked in other professional leads

0:20.8

around the world or what has it worked. And it seems as though

0:25.2

there's a combination of a little bit of a little bit of XFL, a little bit of

0:30.1

U.S.F.S.F.S.F. Yeah. That they could bring into the play that can make an issue.

0:37.0

Oh, they're going to make it interesting all right. You know, I've been looking at

0:43.5

NFL rules proposals for years. They sent out all of the competition committee

0:47.3

proposals yesterday and the proposal to revolutionize the kickoff is so long and so involved it's got so many

0:55.5

tentacles it changes so many things and I still think it's a work in progress yeah

0:59.1

is ultimately until the owners vote on a final version and they can make tweaks and they can make changes and it takes 24 to make it happen.

1:06.7

But the momentum is there and before the meetings that happened in Indianapolis there was a belief they could not get to 24 votes

1:16.3

to change the kickoff to this mainly XFL style, which the UFL is not going to use. That's what's weird about it. The

1:24.2

XFL used it, the UFL, which is the merged XFL and U.SFL is not using it, but

1:29.9

this is where the kicker is well behind the action.

1:33.9

You've got the kicking team and the receiving team packed together.

1:38.2

They're taking the high speed collisions between one player and another player out of the game where they get top speed and they go right at each other,

1:45.6

they dip their heads before impact and you get maximum force and pressure on the C4C5 area and you can have a serious neck injury or worse.

1:56.4

That's the idea to get that out of the game but they've got this this mechanism that

2:00.9

looks like electric football because you got all the guys

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