To tackle or not to tackle - that is the question

Whether 'tis nobler in the body to suffer
The strains and bruises of full-contact practice,
Or to take caution against a sea of troubles
And, by no contact, end them. To hit, to tackle
No more...

Yes, that's right. I just pulled out the Shakespeare.

All because Sheriff- I mean, Coach Lane Kiffin has once again laid down the law after defensive tackle Nick Perry suffered a high ankle sprain during a goal line drill Wednesday.

No more tackling.

Which begs the question that I'm sure Shakespeare himself would have posed had be lived in this day and age:

To tackle or not the tackle?

Pete Carroll was a big proponent of full-contact drills. To be sure, there are plenty of good reasons to support going all out all of the time. It builds toughness and instills the idea of intensity at all times.

It definitely served the Carroll era teams well...To a point.

What those teams, especially in the later years, gained in intensity, they often lost in devastating injuries.

In years past the team was able to overcome those injuries. But those teams did not have to deal with scholarship limits and such major depth problems.

Which is why, even if it goes against my natural philosophy, this appears to be another genius football move by Kiffin.

And who doesn't love the classic Kiffin snark in this quote:

"We do one drill live and this happens," Kiffin said. "We can't afford to do it. We won't do any live tackling in live drills besides preseason games 2 and 3. We won't do it in practice ever again until about four years from now."