The Seahawks hammered the Giants 24–3 on Monday Night Football Monday evening, but needed two quarterbacks to do it.
Seattle was forced to turn to backup Drew Lock temporarily after starter Geno Smith was injured, with the latter being forced from the game by New York linebacker Isaiah Simmons. Simmons knocked Smith out with a hip-drop tackle, a type of tackle in which a defender grabs an offensive player and twists the player’s legs beneath his body weight.
The tackle has caused particularly significant controversy in Australia’s National Rugby League, which has exchanged ideas about combatting the practice with the NFL. On Tuesday, Seahawks coach Pete Carroll spoke out against the tackle on KIRO-AM in Seattle.
