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New rules to come in the upcoming 2024-2025 NFL season to help regulate player's safety · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Chris Landry every Monday right here four to four thirty. We appreciate him jumping
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  in. Go to Landry football dot com and of course on X at Landry
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  Football. Chris, welcome in. How are you? Oh? Thanks?
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  Apologize for Van Tardi. It's been been a hectic day for a number of
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  reasons. It's it's good to be with you as always. No, I
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  appreciate you jumping in here with us. Let's get right to it. In
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  the NFL, I want to go to this rule change in tackling and get
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  your thoughts on this first. You know, when I watched some of the
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  you know, Tom Pelsero put this out on X You probably saw it.
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  You know, the kind of the video that they showed in these meetings,
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  banning the swivel hip drop tackle. Boy, this is gonna I understand where
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  their mind is, but I could see where this is going to get dicey
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  for you know, I'm just about everybody in the league. Here's the thing
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  that people understand. Why is it happening? Wasn't that many plays that it
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  was involved in? Dune the year. I say this all the time,
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  but you know, you got to say it every time because you got to
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  hammer it into people's head anything to do with player safety. And I know
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  we laugh at that because we say, oh yeah, but we're gonna play
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  Thursday night games after Sunday and that doesn't affect safety. Of course it does,
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  but that's that's money involved. So we're not gonna do anything about that.
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  But it's fine, and I'm not complaining. That's just the way it
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  is. Any rule that is justifiable by hey, players are getting injured because
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  of it, they're gonna make it. And why is that not? Because
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  I mean, yeah, they care about player safety, But what they care
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  about is any litigation in which the NFL has been a part of many.
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  If they don't do everything every possible rule that comes up that involves player safety,
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  it's gonna be rushed through. Why because if they get sued, they
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  can go back and say, look in court, it's a violent game.
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  We have done everything we can to make it safe as possible, including Look,
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  we had twenty two new rules that have come across our desk through the
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  Competition Committee, all with players. They think we have ratified them all we
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  look, we are trying to do players. But that's what it's for.
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  Understand that now to the to your point. Sure, it's gonna have an
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  effect. Look, this is this is part of a technique that's changed in
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  tackling because you can't go high anymore. And so and why can't you go
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  high anymore? You know, hit hit the hit the replay button of what
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  I just said. They think, you know, you can't go along anymore
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  what they thine, So it becomes an issue and it just makes it difficult.
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  Yeah, it's Look, it's gonna cause a problem. It's called Hawk
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  tackle. Is initiated by Rocky Cito, who's a former SEOKS assistant coach,
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  and Pete Carroll. They they developed a new way to tackle that could let's
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  defenders, Dick have got to get these guys on the ground, can't get
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  them high, can't get them locate, you know, and and it this
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  but this is another one that has cost some injuries. So boom. So
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  look, I'm on board with everybody says, oh my god, this is
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  ridiculous, unfair, it's too much. I get it. I just spent
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  probably way too much time explaining why it's happened. And it's going to continue
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  to happen. And that's it.