UMForLife

November 17th, 2015 at 8:52 PM ^

I don't know if you are being sarcastic, but I googled it... It seems like profootball focus tracks these things. I could only find information on Pro Teams. New Orleans is the worst this year, which I am not surprised. They miss .136 missed tackles/snap. Best is Browns with .086 missed tackles/snap. Given IU ran 54 plays by half time, I am going to guess this number of missed tackles is not good.

Sorry if you were being sarcastic. I went too geeky here.

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bmacjr11

November 17th, 2015 at 8:14 PM ^

That stat seems about right to me... A little troubling, but its nice to not have to hit the panic button anymore when seeing a stat like that.. Harbaughs got it under control.

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stephenrjking

November 17th, 2015 at 9:57 PM ^

Which brings up the other really interesting question: How many of these happened in the fourth quarter? Missed tackles seem to be the sort of thing that can be caused by fatigue. And, you know, that would make sense given how many pays the D was on the field for.

 

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michfan23

November 17th, 2015 at 8:19 PM ^

I may be waaaayyyyy too optimistic but there is one positive to this. I will tell the players that I coach, missing a tackle is bad, but at least you were in a position to make the play. Yeah, I'm aware there are a lot of variables there, but missing a tackle is fixable, being in the wrong position usually means that your players aren't following coaching, aren't good enough to be in the position, or are lost on the field. Michigan missed tons of tackles. But it is a fixable issue and it shows the positioning by the coaches wasn't as bad as the players performance.
Sorry guys, it's only Tuesday, I'm trying to be optimistic.



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608Monroe

November 18th, 2015 at 9:29 AM ^

Combined with Howard being an EXCEPTIONAL back.  We can't look past that.  Barry Sanders used to make a lot of people miss tackles even when they were in position.  Not saying the dude is Sanders, but he's a great college back -- one we haven't seen yet this season.

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HeWhoMustNotBeNamed

November 18th, 2015 at 11:09 AM ^

I think the fact that Michigan won, despite the horrendous play on defense can't be overlooked. I'm hard pressed to believe that looking back on the season, the IU game wont be the worst game the defense played.

Ohio State wont be nearly as run heavy and I fully expect the D to get at least one turnover. Peppers usually makes one or two impact plays on D and I didn't see that either (example of that IU Freshman catching that first down in the second half while Peppers covered him).

8-2 is a heck of a start and a win is a win.

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Yeoman

November 18th, 2015 at 1:46 PM ^

Indiana has lost 13 of their last 14 regular-season conference games. Ohio State's won their last 30.

It's a long, long way from barely-good-enough-to-beat-Indiana to what's going to be needed in a couple of weeks. Let's not pretend otherwise.

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funkywolve

November 18th, 2015 at 2:16 PM ^

is a much more run oriented team than IU.  For the season this is how OSU and IU's run/pass play selection breaks down:

IU:  345 runs 444 passes

OSU:  430 runs 263 passes

Rush attempts are about 43% of IU's play calls.  Rush attempts are about 62% of OSU's play calls.

 

 

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Mr. Yost

November 17th, 2015 at 8:30 PM ^

Were both charmin soft on Saturday. I saw guys trying to tackle at the laziest level...without using their legs. Just reaching for the runner - it was awful.

Spielman would've LOST it.

Hope we never have to witness that again.

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Moving forward, the LBs will be better versus PSU. Just a better matchup all around. That said, I haven't seen Morgan make a play all year and Bolden looks like an undersized DT. There's no speed unless he's the only one running 2 seconds before the playclock expires.

Hopefully we can figure out the DL to help those guys out, because they're not good enough to be the playmakers on the D.

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Richard75

November 17th, 2015 at 11:06 PM ^

It's always been an issue. This got overlooked at the time (because we had fifty-eleven other problems), but when Mattison took over the LBs before last season, that was a clear indication that the LB play wasn't cutting it. The DC doesn't step in if he's thrilled with how things are going.

Michigan also was all over the place with what it wanted from its LBs. We started out a few years ago with Ross playing inside, then decided we needed to get bigger. Now we're bigger but slower there, and lacking instinctiveness. The DL had hidden all of this the first half of the season, but this issue is getting exposed now.



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CoachBP6

November 17th, 2015 at 8:40 PM ^

I worry more about the yards after contact / catch than I do about the missed tackles. Obviously on Saturday, there was a ton of extra yards after contact, the punt return as a major one. Absolutely must get better at wrapping up. A lot had to do with the pace of play, but there were at least 8 tackles where our guys had the ball carrier dead to rights and failed miserably to bring him down.



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