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Not sure what planet you live on.
Pollard has a patented (almost but not quite unique to him) method of tackling guys who he is behind when they are running away from him. I have seen him do this multiple times and it is disgustingly dirty IMO.
He grabs them (legal tackle part) and then drops his body weight on their lower legs. (Should be illegal - and in my opinion could be loosely defined as a variant of the 'horse collar' tackle which is already outlawed.)
If he is 'lucky'; the runner has his foot planted when he drops his weight essentially guaranteeing an injury.
In part he does this when he can't catch up enough to get the right angle to get a real tackle or when the tacklee is so much bigger than him (Gronk) that he might not be able to tackle one-one.
You can make a claim it is legal by the rules; but CLEAN. No way sir.
I live on Earth and have played football before where you apparently have not. When you give up size and power to ball carriers, you aim for the legs. When you can't do that and are attachEd from behind to said bigger ball carrier, you use your body on the lower half of his body to bring him down. As has been said, Gronk has made guys look like asses when they didn't do that. Pollard did and, because Gronk was still trying to drag him, Pollards body came down awkwardly on his ankle, which was bound to happen to Gronk at some point (and, unfortunately, happened right before the biggest game of the year). It was an unfortunate injury but, like Welker's, wasn't dirty.