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 ...

Coming out of the bye week, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers have a big opportunity ahead of them as they get ready for the stretch run. The first test in front of them is the 2-8 New York Giants who are in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ARIZONA -- Tackling in the NFL -- and its inability to be replicated on a practice field -- has long been a conversation that weaves into other topics such as basic fundamentals, player safety and ...

Coming off a 22-point win Saturday at Kentucky, the Vols are still searching for answers for their struggling defense, which now ranks near the bottom of the SEC The same problems that have plagued ...