#NFLVideos: Scott Pioli on the elimination of ‘Hip-Drop’ tackle, how front offices evaluate players with multi-s

Scott Pioli on the elimination of ‘Hip-Drop’ tackle, how front offices evaluate players with multi-s

Our next guest has over 30 years of NFL experience. He’s served as vice president of player personnel, a general manager and assistant GM, and now he is our front office analyst for NFL network. Please welcome three time Super Bowl champion Scott Pioli. What’s up Scott Scott at the annual league meeting today

Scott good morning. Well when I said three time Super Bowl champ. Now like Jason’s got a thing going on because we have a two time Super Bowl champ. And now it’s just gonna get him out of here. It’s gonna hurt his feelings. I’m not even sure if

You can be on with us. Scott Look, you want it, you deserve it, at the annual league meeting on Monday. Scott, the owners unanimously banned the hip drop tackle. There’s been a lot of talk around the breakfast table here this morning with us about it. Some players have voiced

Their displeasure over the rule change on social media. What is your take on that decision, Sarah? I’m all for this. I truly believe in player safety, and I think that’s what this rule is all about. And you know, when you look back, rule’s always have unintended consequences.

And when we decided to take the head out of the game, which was very important and we need to do, there was going to be some unintended consequences. First, it was going to be lower leg injuries to players during tackles. The next thing was going to be the inception or the

Finding of this new kind of tackle, the hip drop tackle. And to me, it’s a tackle that’s so unnecessary. As long as we teach players how to tackle better is we look around the league. Once we took the head out of the game , tackling skills went down

Because it was less time spent on it. In practice, there was less time spent on it. You know, throughout training camp. So to me, this is a this is a rule that’s really going to help the safety of the players. When I look at it, you know, we all

Know what it looks like when we see it. And to me, the players that are complaining about this or the players association having a problem with this, they say it’s they’re concerned about the consistency of the ruling. But to me that’s not a reason to keep it out of the game. They

Need to keep this out of the game for sure. Let’s go to the question. You know Chris. Hey, Scott, as as if you don’t know this about me, I played lacrosse . That’s right. Chris played lacrosse. I’m a scout. Of course I know this man, but when it

Comes to all these NFL prospects , do the scouts or executives give them bonus points for. Or if they were a multi-sport athlete or they played something else other than football growing up or in college? Chris, I always thought it was important to me. It was a bonus for

Players for a multitude of reasons. Again one of the things to me that was so important is if you play another sport, you have a different type of athletic intelligence and understanding and ability really to make on field in competition, decision making and solve and problem solving. So to me, you

Know, I know you’re a lacrosse guy. I know another guy who was a pretty good lacrosse player in college, a guy by the name of Jim Brown, who was a two time All-American. And I got to meet him when I was a graduate assistant at Syracuse. And Jim talked about how important it

Was for him and how much it helped him in terms of his decision making on the field. Even though the sports were vastly different, it was training his mind to be able to make in competition decisions and you know, when I look at multi-sport athletes, I was always a big believer in

Wrestlers. We had Stephen Neal, who was a starter for us at the New England Patriots in those in that first decade of championships. He started for us, for seven years. He started for three Super Bowls, for us for three Super Bowls, and he never played college football. He was at Cal Bakersfield. He

Was a world champion wrestler. He was a national championship wrestler, and he always had something about his toughness, his leverage, his mindset. There’s been a lot of players that were wrestlers that have been very successful. I also remember in 1996, we I was with the Baltimore Ravens. We drafted two players that were

Multi-sport athletes. Ray Lewis was a two time National high School state champion wrestler in Florida, and Jonathan Ogden was both an All American football won the Outland Trophy UCLA, but was also a national champion shot putter. I believe being a multi-sport athlete does have value. Those wrestlers are now offensive line and defensive

Line. It always comes to fruition. I just signed my son up for lacrosse in hopes that the two sports scout your skill scouting somewhere consultant and doing those things to get them in. But Scott, I want to look ahead to the NFL draft now. You worked with LSU as a

Consultant again this season. Is there a player there at LSU that you’re keeping your eye on come this late April for the NFL draft? Well, Jason, of course they’re going to have three guys. In my opinion. They’re going to get drafted in the first round of course Jayden Daniels. But Malik Nabers and

Brian Thomas are probably going to get drafted also. So they are loaded. When I look at Jayden Daniels, though, this is a special football player. I had to get down there. Remember I was working on Eastern Time so I would get into the office a little bit early and I would get

There and Jayden Daniels was there every single morning and he would get in about 515, 530 and start working on virtual reality and film watching. And I remember one time I was asking him, you know, not as a scout, but I was like, Jaden, tell me about this virtual reality

Stuff. What are you getting out of it? Is it all just for show? And his eyes lit up and when he started talking about the detail of his preparation, he told me this story. How he had never played at Mississippi State, but when he put the goggles on, he

The week before the Mississippi State game, knew exactly what the entire stadium looked like. He knew where the play clocks were in both end zones. He knew where every single detail about this stadium that he needed to know in terms of preparation for the game. Again, we can all

Everyone sees how good of a player he is, how talented he is, how accurate he is, what an athlete he is. But what you don’t see is the preparation. And this guy truly loves the game, loves the competition, and he is just a special kind of leader. So to me, Jayden Daniels

Is a guy that I’ve certainly got my eye on. You know what Kyle would call that? The intangibles. Scott Kyle’s big on on the intangibles. Tangible season. You don’t say and by the way, don’t let Jason fool you. His kids in like 17 different sports. So he’s going to be

Drafted next week probably. Hey, if I ever get back in it I would absolutely take him. McCourty

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