Banker: Huskers to Look at Rugby-Style Tackling

[MichiganDad3]

Yeah, legs, nobody can go anywhere w/o their legs. Not rocket science. Have one guy lockdown the legs and another guy strip the ball. Anymore questions? Sheesh, I should be making $400K/yr for my football Nowledge.

Do you know anything about special teams? I hear that gig pays fairly well.

[Scratchtown]

 

 

I was just talking to our HC, and we just kind of shrugged our shoulders and said....well it's nothing different from what we teach. It's the athletes willingness to get low to make the tackle that is the difference.

 

I've always thought hitting high was super lazy.

 

Not having a helmet or pads is good motivation for clean hits.

 

When I was a kid we played a lot of tackle football without pads. There were very few injuries. I always thought pads made people too brave.

 

It taught us how to tackle properly because we didn't want to hurt our friends or ourselves. I don't recall any instance as a grade school kid playing tackle football without pads where a kid got hit and laid there in pain. Sure we were sore the next day or cut up.

 

The only hope I have is for my future kids to have enough friends that would be willing to play tackle football without pads. It helps build a kids pain tolerance.

[I AM FOOT FOOT]

yep and dirt bikes.

[Husker Psycho]

As a runner and receiver I've been leg tackled more than a few times.

 

I can tell you that when done right... it leaves the runner with the most helpless feeling they can experience as a runner. You're going down... and you know it.

 

It's like your legs become instantly mummified... wrapped together so tightly... actually pinned together with such force that they literally become immovable. It's a helpless feeling. The best tacklers I played against all seemed to add something else to the tackle... it's like they add a rolling motion to the tackle which causes the runner to not only have their legs pinned together but you are now also spinning towards a sideways trajectory as you go down which makes the tackle even more assured.

 

Any other type of tackle... you know you are still running... you still have a chance to gain more yards... you can still escape.

 

With a well executed leg tackle... the runner is done for that play.

[Bowfin]

I should be making $400K/yr for my football Nowledge.

 

We're only offering $375K and expenses...plus bonuses...plus endorsements.

[Mavric]

Gerry confirmed that the huskers are doing this. Big change in technique.

[Mavric]

 

[jaws]

Didn't we discuss this on this board before? Ohio State switched to this when they hired Coach Ash and the tackling was night and day between seasons. It also helped them win a national championship.

[Mavric]

I didn't really see anything different out there. Anyone else?

 

Didn't even think about it until listening to Riley talk about the targeting calls. I thought that was kind of the point about going to rugby style.

 

But perhaps I didn't know what to look for.

[It'sNotAFakeID]

I think the difference between how we "used" to tackle and what rugby-styling tackling is is very small. I thought they tackled better overall last night, but we'll see if that carries through the rest of the season.

[JJ Husker]

I don't really care how they tackle as long as they get the job done. If the surest and most effective way leads to a couple targeting and ejection calls per game, so be it. Sure they can teach them to try to avoid it but the last thing I want to see is guys overly concerned about how to avoid the penalty. I don't want to see them headhunting or spearing or anything like that but judging off the 2 calls yesterday, I think we're just going to have to accept it as part of the game now.

 

My personal opinion is the game is moving so fast and the players are so athletuc nowadays that all they can really be concerned about is getting the guy on the ground. The ones where they can pull up or alter their trajectory will be fairly obvious to the players. However, the other ones.....well, just tackle the sumbitch and hope it goes our way.

[ScottyIce]

Personally, I thought we tackled much better and to say that means it looked different also.

[JJ Husker]

nvm

[Dansker]

I saw the new tackling. All game long I saw our defenders were going low and towards the hip/thighs almost like wrestling takedowns. The idea is to get more than one guy on the ball carrier. I saw this happen several times. The tackling looked much more solid.

[Blackshirt316]

We had a third down play early in the frst half where going low hurt us. Kalu went low on their WR on a swing pass on like 3rd and 2 and the kid fell forward for the 1st down. Had Kalu hit him up top he probably stops him short.

 

That said,

 

I recall one blitz where MRI had their QB dead to rights up the middle and just flat ran right by him... but did we actually miss a single tackle where we made contact?