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12 years ago

In my recent perusal of the internet for some Green Bay Packers news in the offseason, I came across an article at Football Outsiders by editor-in-chief Aaron Schatz. “Broken Tackles 2012: Defense” focuses on the best and worst defensive players when it came to broken tackles last season. Those of us who regularly follow the [...]

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12 years ago
meaningless stat if they don't account for missed tackles, broken tackles and terrible coverage angles on potential tackles.


One thing that pleases me. We saw a lot less of the "pinball" style of tackles where the DB simply throws his shoulder at the ball carrier and hopes that he knocks him down.

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12 years ago

meaningless stat if they don't account for missed tackles, broken tackles and terrible coverage angles on potential tackles.


One thing that pleases me. We saw a lot less of the "pinball" style of tackles where the DB simply throws his shoulder at the ball carrier and hopes that he knocks him down.

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True. You had to go down to the comments below the article to see something I was thinking. Kinda cruel to say, but it ain't a broken tackle, maybe not even a missed tackle if you don't even get close enough to the guy for it to register. The commenter cited Erik Walden against the 49ers for that.

When I saw A.J. Hawk so statistically good, baseball came to mind. A lot of limited range shortstops (I can't think of an ideal example) have great fielding percentages but fail to get to a lot of balls. Some of the stars at that position end up with some errors by going for the tough ones or throwing it away after a great stop.

I definitely agree about the noticeable improvement in DBs tackling sure.

The elephant(s) in the room here, I think, are our mammoth D Linemen who probably did a good job of not getting their tackles broken, but by appearances anyway, were horrible at pursuit and even getting in position to stop bursts into the line - Peterson, yeah, but a lot of others getting away with the same thing. I think Datone Jones and possibly a healthy Mike Neal will help that situation a lot.


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