I dislike any low hits and not really trying to defend Minkah here but this happens on goal line runs hundreds of times a year. High/ low. Sadly, in this case, Chubb's leg was firmly planted and couldn't whip back out of the contact. Brutal hit? Yes. But intent to injure or dirty hit? A little bit of grey area. Only Fitzpatrick can know what the intent was. I do agree that torpedoing yourself into a guys leg shouldn't be allowed though. The same as launching at a guys head. I just don't think social media fans should be calling Fitz a dirty player and all that.
I disagree. The league has handcuffed the defense enough. It’s a priority for them to legislate out of the game guys going high in order to try to limit concussions and CTE. That means that guys are being conditioned to go lower to finish tackles. When Fitzpatrick commits to contact he’s just trying to secure a tackle.
It’s not about him going low, that’s what people aren’t getting. It’s about him going low at that specific area. They don’t teach that. That is extremely dangerous and now it will cost a great player his career.
What if Chubb breaks the tackle? He’s one of the better runners after contact in the league. It’s not a dirty play; it’s just bad luck.
They absolutely teach that. You drive through a leg to take a runner out.
Why do they a chop block rule? Same thing implies imo. I get the NFL did everything they could to make players to tackle low but when a RB is engaged and you go to the side of his knee that is extremely dangerous.
While a player is engaged? That would be penalty on a defensive player to an offensive player. I get concussions are a huge issue but the NFL did this to themselves. I will say this is still extremely unlucky for Chubb.
DTs and DEs don’t break tackles. Chubb can go down when engaged and protect himself. We’ve done too much already to legislate defense out of the game. At game speed, it’s almost impossible to pull up when you’re committed to making a tackle.
This is immaterial. The game is too fast and there’s the threat of a missed tackle. If my safety pulls up there I’m questioning why that guy is even on the field.
No threat of a broken tackle from a DL or LB
Concussions are the nature of contact sports.
Agreed. There is high risk at his position and even greater risk when a player breaks tackles the way Chubb does.
The overreaction is the suspension. Shit happens but it’s a bad form tackle. Not 101. If you think that is 101, you don’t know football. Simple as that
He didn’t. He drives his head and shoulder in front of the body to chop down the tree. He doesn’t aim for the knee as you’re claiming.
He’s stopping his forward momentum. He’s coming from the side. Push Chubb back? From the side? You’re demanding he defy the physics of his momentum vs Chubb’s.
He’s coming from the side not downhill head on with the player. What video did you watch?
Form tackling rarely if ever takes place in the heat of a moment of a football game. This is tantamount to a rugby tackle which everyone has been teaching since Pete Carroll brought rugby tacking to the league during the Legion of Boom days. Here’s the teaching video I and many other coaches and former coaches have used to teach rugby style tackling. The only thing Minkah lacked here was the wrap. His attack angle and landmark is on the money and consistent with this approach.
You wrote all those words to say that you don’t know what a form tackle is…thank you lol.
