‘Hip-drop tackle’ injured Baltimore’s Mark Andrews

NBC play-by-play broadcaster Mike Tirico mentioned the accidents Baltimore Ravens tight finish Mark Andrews suffered final season towards the Cincinnati Bengals, and referred to the deal with Bengals linebacker Logan Wilson fabricated from Andrews on that play as a “hip-drop deal with.”

“(Andrews’) damage got here as the results of a type of hip-drop tackles that the league has labored to attempt to get out of the sport, and it is now a penalty,” Tirico mentioned through the broadcast of Thursday’s season-opening sport between the Ravens and Chiefs in Kansas Metropolis.

When Andrews performed within the Ravens-Chiefs AFC title sport in January for the primary time since his Week 11 damage towards the Bengals, CBS play-by-play announcer Jim Nantz additionally referred to the tackle Wilson fabricated from Andrews with the controversial “hip-drop” label hooked up.

Ravens head coach John Harbaugh criticized Wilson’s deal with. ESPN’s Bart Scott referred to as it a “soiled type of tackling.” Bengals head coach Zac Taylor defended Wilson, and referred to as the criticism Wilson’s tackling “utterly reckless.”