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Steelers' Patrick Queen Rips NFL Rule Change
New Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker Patrick Queen is not happy with the NFL's latest rule change.
PITTSBURGH -- The Pittsburgh Steelers' newest star inside linebacker isn't happy with a massive rule change that will radically alter how NFL defenders play their games.
The NFL announced this week that the so-called "swivel hip drop tackle" will be banned next season and all Queen, who signed a three-year deal with the Steelers this offseason, sees is a harder life for defenders in a sport that has already made it harder and harder to defend without picking up penalties.
The NFL made it clear there is a specific kind of play they will be targeting for fouls, one where the defender "jumps in the air and drops on the runner's legs from behind," according to MLive's Detroit Lions beat reporter, Kyle Meinke.
But Queen is still afraid of what this will do to the game of football as a whole and his sentiment was echoed by a number of different current and former NFL stars like J.J. Watt and others.
Queen has turned into one of the more sure tacklers in the NFL over the past two seasons, making 250 total stops over 34 games the past two seasons while missing just 23 over that same span. But it looks like his job will get much harder in the coming season.
