NFL Mulls Penalizing Injurious 'Hip-Drop' Tackle

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The NFL's competition committee, as well as its health and safety committee, are mulling penalizing the hip-drop tackle, which the league says results in an injury rate 25 times that of a typical tackle. 

While the league calls the tackle, a hip-drop tackle, there still some ambiguity as to what that actually means. 

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