Football tackling technique

[brees fan]

If you place a rugby player on the gridiron, he ends up on his back with a concussion and cleat marks on his chest. If you place an AF player in a rugby match, he ends up sucking gas and eating dirt, and bleeding from somewhere.
So were are both right now lets move on... Baseball or cricket most violent sport? lol nah im really done for now ive gotta get back to work

 

[Houston]

If you place a rugby player on the gridiron, he ends up on his back with a concussion and cleat marks on his chest. If you place an AF player in a rugby match, he ends up sucking gas and eating dirt, and bleeding from somewhere.

Maybe but the fact of the matter is that NFL players are better athletes and


playing against better athletes who are coming to take your head off=a tougher sport

 

[brees fan]

Tennessee, US

 

[brees fan]

better athletes at their paticular sport

 

[Houston]

better athletes at their paticular sport

that means nothing in this argument.

In that case than Tiger Woods is probably the best athlete of all time.


Take the best 10 athletes from Football and then from Rugby, put them through different drills that test basic athleticism overall. Things like 40 time, bench press, reaction time, agility etc....
and the NFL players would come out with a higher grade.

 

[brees fan]

you might be right but rugby still more violent

 

[Houston]

you might be right but rugby still more violent

How can it be? It's the same basic concept, tackle the person with the ball.

But in the NFL you have bigger and stronger athletes who are coming and hitting you with hard shoulder pads and even harder helmets on.

Ok if we were to place you in a middle of a game and you got to choose.......

Would you choose to be in a Rugby game and have to try to get from point A to B with the ball in your hand?

or

Would you choose to be in a NFL game and get the ball on a hand off and then have to go try and score?


I haven't watched Rugby in a while but I know that if you choose the NFL Scenario.
First you would have to get past the 270lbs+ linemen(Rugy doesn't have any players as big as these). Rather it's getting through a big Casey Hampton through the middle or an agile Dwight Freeney around the outside either way you're going to have a HUGE problem.
Then if you somehow get past that you're going to have 3 or 4 LB's with Arms the size of a mini basketball trying to take your head off and there's a good chance that at least 1 of them if going to go unblocked and have a free shot on you.
Then if you get past that you're going to have the safety's flying down probably un-blocked to take your head off................

To each his own but I'll rather take my chances at Rugby, I'm a pretty fast and agile person so I'd have the chance of shaking a few rugby players and beating them with speed.
I can't however shake and bake my way through a NFL playing field where you have DE's running close to 4.7s..........

 

[Houston]

dude u keep saying their better athletes..u have no evidence. how bout u watch rugby before comparing it to the NFL?

I use to watch Rugby when we had the channel. If I haven't watched Rugby before than I wouldn't even be here comparing the 2.

 

[brees fan]

well knowing that if i get tackled in the nfl i get another chance id probably choose it considering when you get tackled in rugby you get ran over while someone else picks up the ball and the game keeps going no whistle no break no huddle just go

 

[brees fan]

lol

 

[CaribbeanJoseph]

lol eskimo you have got to be kidding yourself NFL is "tougher" then rugby league what a load of bullshit man. I know NFL is a very physical game with a lot of amazing athletes but mate we don't wear protection you take a hit like a man. lol I imagine any NFL player trying to play Rugby and going for the big shots or grass cuts they would let in trys every play.

never said tougher, said football was more painful

tbh i couldn't give a fuck which is tougher as it really means fuck all and i'm not gonna bother arguing it

 

[CaribbeanJoseph]

so because ive never played im not entitled to an opinion based on fact? So all those people bad mouthing bush arent entitled to an opinion either cause theyve never been president

you've not played both sports, so therefore you can't say which is more painful as you wouldn't know

 

[CaribbeanJoseph]

you might be right but rugby still more violent

definitely not, rugby is a highly physical game but football, football is violent

 

[CaribbeanJoseph]

its funny cause even though i dont totally agree with what i am sayin im gonna drag this one out as far as it will go

just discredits anything you have to add even more

smh

 

[BWEISS]

 

[brees fan]

definitely not, rugby is a highly physical game but football, football is violent

you do realize that people get their ears ripped off and eyes gouged out all the time in a rugby scrum

 

[CaribbeanJoseph]

you do realize that people get their ears ripped off and eyes gouged out all the time in a rugby scrum

exaggerate much?

i'm well aware this happens, however the contact in rugby is not violent

 

[brees fan]

i might have used a too strong of words but i didnt exaggerate (i know thats not how it spelt) all kinds of nonsense goes on in those piles (can we at least keep this going for four more post's im tryin to get my count up)

 

[CaribbeanJoseph]

i might have used a too strong of words but i didnt exaggerate (i know thats not how it spelt) all kinds of nonsense goes on in those piles (can we at least keep this going for four more post's im tryin to get my count up)

yes foul play goes on in the scrum but its nothing to write home about

no different than a dogpile for a fumble

 

[brees fan]

true except for it happens everytime they line up in rugby and just every so often in football (3 more)