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<blockquote data-quote="lv20gt" data-source="post: 959545" data-attributes="member: 2299"><p>I feel like parsing it out by individuals needs a lot more context. </p><p></p><p>3 starters being inconsistent tacklers is a huge problem. That is 27% of your starters. Even more so because not all positions are going to be getting equal opportunities. For example a space eating DT isn't going to have as many attempts as a LB that he is opening up space for. So that DT having a low number of missed tackles isn't the same as an LB having a missed number of tackles. So it isn't really just 27% in practice as those 3 are likely to account for a higher % of attempts than that. </p><p></p><p>Those 3 accounted for 26 tackle attempts. According to ESPN as a team we had 39 solo tackles, 18 assisted tackles, and 14 missed tackles. Depending on how you look at it that can mean slightly different things. That is a total of 71 tackling opportunities just adding those together and that would be 19.7% off those being missed. The three players you talked abut account for 36.6% of those opportunities. Now, you could also view it as assisted tackles being multiple players participating in a single opportunity. That would mean 62 opportunities at most. That would put the miss % at 22.5% and those 3 players being a part of 41.9% of plays. This may be slightly high if Powell and Tatum shared any of their assisted tackles. Not a perfect science, as there are a couple things I couldn't quickly find a way to try and account for, but I think it gives a rough picture of the idea. I don't know which way to look at it and either way if you really wanted to see what those numbers mean you'd need to have a that info for the country to see how it stands up. </p><p></p><p>In any case, I don't think we can put too much stock in it one way or another. We tackled poorly against UL to say the least. If we tackle to that level throughout the year then it will be a big issue no matter how you want to parse it. If it is limited to those three players but it's having as big as an impact as it did against UL, then you can't really write it off as being a limited issue. But, overall, it was one game, and it's possible that it was an outlier. We very well could be a better tackling team than we showed against UL, and it's also possible that we have weaknesses defensively that UL wasn't able to exploit.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="lv20gt, post: 959545, member: 2299"] I feel like parsing it out by individuals needs a lot more context. 3 starters being inconsistent tacklers is a huge problem. That is 27% of your starters. Even more so because not all positions are going to be getting equal opportunities. For example a space eating DT isn't going to have as many attempts as a LB that he is opening up space for. So that DT having a low number of missed tackles isn't the same as an LB having a missed number of tackles. So it isn't really just 27% in practice as those 3 are likely to account for a higher % of attempts than that. Those 3 accounted for 26 tackle attempts. According to ESPN as a team we had 39 solo tackles, 18 assisted tackles, and 14 missed tackles. Depending on how you look at it that can mean slightly different things. That is a total of 71 tackling opportunities just adding those together and that would be 19.7% off those being missed. The three players you talked abut account for 36.6% of those opportunities. Now, you could also view it as assisted tackles being multiple players participating in a single opportunity. That would mean 62 opportunities at most. That would put the miss % at 22.5% and those 3 players being a part of 41.9% of plays. This may be slightly high if Powell and Tatum shared any of their assisted tackles. Not a perfect science, as there are a couple things I couldn't quickly find a way to try and account for, but I think it gives a rough picture of the idea. I don't know which way to look at it and either way if you really wanted to see what those numbers mean you'd need to have a that info for the country to see how it stands up. In any case, I don't think we can put too much stock in it one way or another. We tackled poorly against UL to say the least. If we tackle to that level throughout the year then it will be a big issue no matter how you want to parse it. If it is limited to those three players but it's having as big as an impact as it did against UL, then you can't really write it off as being a limited issue. But, overall, it was one game, and it's possible that it was an outlier. We very well could be a better tackling team than we showed against UL, and it's also possible that we have weaknesses defensively that UL wasn't able to exploit. [/QUOTE]
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