Looking at the attacking team and tackles I believe a stratigic miscaculation is being made by all teams.
Upon contact and loss of foward momentum by the ball carrier he has 2 options. Obviously most ball carriers try to promote their position. The other option is to immediatly surrender, how I would acheive this i dont know.
By trying to promote your position and wrestling the attacking team is trading time, giving the defense the opportunity to (1) reset their defensive line (2) monentarily catch their breath. Once momentum in the tackle is almost arrested then surrendering i beleive would be smarter than getting carried to the ground.
Strategically it will be smarter to immediatly surrender on contact after all loss of momentum and take the quick play the ball to stop the defense from resetting their defensive line and not allowing that momentary rest.
I guess in essence I am saying that there is still room for the big boppers because they take so many players to stop their momentum but becaus they are resisting the tackle a lot of the tactical advantages of that hit up are lost. Obviously players train hard out to have fast play balls but are they losing by wrestling with the defense
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I think you maybe lost in space Don, if you surrender In a tackle the referee calls surrender and the defence are allowed a lot more time before peeling off. Anytype of surrender tackle actually allows the defuse to reset with plenty of time.
The big boppers are now hitting the advantage line and turning their backs to get an offload, that way they are taking 2/3 defenders out of play and getting the offload away. Further they take the 3 players out and attempt to play quick the ref can see that and if the have the momentum the ref may call 6 again. Same with wrestle, the ref will call the held and if wrestling continues - 6 again is given. Love the 6 again rule, it limits the wrestling your talking about. Once on a roll the defence get tired, lactic acid builds up and fatigue sets in, gaps open.
Brian Smith introduced this tactic in the late 90's early 2000's, players were surrendering as soon as the defence touched them by diving on their belly's. The game started turning into touch footy that's why the DOMINANT tackle interpretation was introduced.
Sorry but back to the drawing board.