Yeah, I hear that a lot. He doesn't try to make the highlight reels with huge shoulder blocks that send players flying. What he does instead is use fundamentals to wrap up opposing players and bring them down. It doesn't matter to me how he does it, as long as he does it. And we'll likely never see him criticized on tape for not making a tackle. Know what I mean? How sometimes you see a player try to make a huge hit, and just flat-out miss? Laurinaitis is always trying to get two arms around someone, and that's cool with me.BigRamFan said:I'm a BIG fan of JL and totally appreciate the fact that he is both a student of the game and a technician but I would love to see him really blow up an opposing player from time to time. It seems (to me at least) we have had few of any of those big hits that make people think about coming across the middle in recent years.
X said:Yeah, I hear that a lot. He doesn't try to make the highlight reels with huge shoulder blocks that send players flying. What he does instead is use fundamentals to wrap up opposing players and bring them down. It doesn't matter to me how he does it, as long as he does it. And we'll likely never see him criticized on tape for not making a tackle. Know what I mean? How sometimes you see a player try to make a huge hit, and just flat-out miss? Laurinaitis is always trying to get two arms around someone, and that's cool with me.BigRamFan said:I'm a BIG fan of JL and totally appreciate the fact that he is both a student of the game and a technician but I would love to see him really blow up an opposing player from time to time. It seems (to me at least) we have had few of any of those big hits that make people think about coming across the middle in recent years.
Yeah, I wouldn't mind seeing that either. :twisted:BigRamFan said:Totally with both of you on the sure tackle. I (almost) felt hypocritical in writing my first post. Drives me crazy to see the guys playing at the highest level have worse tackling skills than pee wee players because of always going for the big hit.
I LOVE the fact that JL doesn't miss tackles, but I'd still like to see him rattle some teeth (during a sure tackle, of course) from time to time.
BigRamFan said:but I'd still like to see him rattle some teeth from time to time.
X said:Yeah, I hear that a lot. He doesn't try to make the highlight reels with huge shoulder blocks that send players flying. What he does instead is use fundamentals to wrap up opposing players and bring them down. It doesn't matter to me how he does it, as long as he does it. And we'll likely never see him criticized on tape for not making a tackle. Know what I mean? How sometimes you see a player try to make a huge hit, and just flat-out miss? Laurinaitis is always trying to get two arms around someone, and that's cool with me.BigRamFan said:I'm a BIG fan of JL and totally appreciate the fact that he is both a student of the game and a technician but I would love to see him really blow up an opposing player from time to time. It seems (to me at least) we have had few of any of those big hits that make people think about coming across the middle in recent years.