Defensive players may not be happy about the NFL's ban of the swivel hip-drop tackle, but Baltimore Ravens coach John Harbaugh came out as a major proponent of the change.
"When you drop down on the back of his legs, it's a mass ... and it's 25 times more likely to have a serious injury," Harbaugh told reporters Tuesday. "So, it's really a bad play, and it needed to be out. And guys are going to tackle just fine without the quote-unquote hip-drop tackle, because they tackled just fine without it for 100 years of football before that, when you never saw it, really.