The Raiders have a tackling problem. What was supposed to be an integral part of the team’s strength has progressively gotten worse in the first five games. How bad has it been? In Sunday’s 34-18 loss ...

Two weeks into the 2025 season, tackling has been a major problem for the New England Patriots. The defense of coordinator Terrell Williams has missed a combined 25 tackles between its games against ...

Tackling shouldn't be an issue for a team that expects to make the NFL playoffs every year. Nevertheless, it was a huge problem for the Seattle Seahawks at times during both the 2022 and 2023 ...

Aaron Jones of the Vikings and Brian Robinson of the Commanders combined to average nearly 7 yards per carry against the Giants in the first two weeks of the season. Defensive coordinator Shane Bowen ...

The Arizona Cardinals have lost 11 of their past 12 games, including six straight. They've gone from consistently suffering last-second heartbreak to digging themselves into multiscore holes and ...

When Wink Martindale accepted the Michigan football defensive coordinator job, there were plenty of people who didn't think there would be much of a drop off from the previous three seasons of ...

New York’s tackling concerns seem to be more than just a concern over technique at this point. The New York Jets as a defense has really struggled since the firing of Robert Saleh and the promotion of ...

Two days after Michigan’s road loss to Oklahoma, players on the defensive side of the ball were still reeling over their play. Head coach Sherrone Moore said Monday his players were “really down about ...

Before the 2024 season began, Next Gen Stats and Amazon Web Services (AWS) teamed up to create a new AI model that set out to estimate all 11 defenders' chances of making a tackle every tenth of a ...

To get a good barometer of the missed tackle issue, the NFL league average is 8.5%, so Dallas finished the year well below the average. When compared to efficient tackling teams like the Patriots (6.6 ...