14 missed tackles yesterday
 

Per PFF

Missed tackles are a player problem. You’re taught how to tackle from day 1 in youth football.

Blame the DL but this was just as big of a problem as no pressure

Fire the tackling coach!

The tackling was as big of an issue as anything.

What's the old quote? "You are either coaching it or allowing it to happen." A team that cannot tackle is soft. A team that gets bullied in the trenches on both sides of the ball is soft. Coaches are not pressing the correct buttons to make these guys play like a tougher team.

Does that even include the *made* tackles where the Bengal player would drag the defender an extra 5 yards before going down? Because there were plenty of those, too.

Reid’s teams have always been finesse, it’s why they get punched in the mouth often.

I feel like they’ve been pretty good at tackling this year but yesterday was probably their worst game of the year. Even Bolton who is normally a great tackler, missed some tackles

it's pretty bad

chiefs are 22nd in missed tackles

https://www.pro-football-reference.c...vanced_defense

Guys, several of those were Bolton vs. Perine. And we know Bolton is probably the best tackler on the team. 95% of the time if he gets his hand on someone, they're going down. But Perine is a beast to tackle. He's 5'11" 237 lbs. Just about ten pounds lighter than Henry, in a denser package.

In fact, many of their skill players are just big, hard-to-tackle guys. Not saying 14 missed tackles is acceptable, but let's not make it out like the guys on the other side weren't any good. That's like saying every defender that plays vs. Kelce is trash just because they can't cover him 1v1. Or every defender that tries to tackle Mahomes when he scrambles. CIN has some players that are tough tackles just like KC has players that are tough tackles; we were always going to miss a few.

Denver has the 3rd MOST missed tackles? Buffalo 2nd most?

Yikes.

My biggest take aways yesterday were tackling and tackles. Both were sub par.

kind of an interesting stat

the chargers don't miss many tackles but their defense is way worse than ours

For real every time they ran the ball they drug our defenders 3-5 yard downfield and THEN fall forward for another two.

A lot of those missed tackled were at the line and behind the line of scrimmage. We were getting penetration just couldn't finish.

Whisky Dick defense.

Let's not be too harsh. Samaje Perine is an NFL legend for a reason.