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Last night, our D had TWENTY THREE missed tackles. That's hard to believe from any pro team. Grimes led the way with 6, Wheeler had 4, Jones had 3, and most chimed in. We have 66 for the year, not good, but last night was especially bad.

Grimes has offset some with VG coverage, and his pick 6. Not so for Wheeler or Jones, who have been major disappointments this year.

Cinci had 93 plays, with 65 being average but, how the hell can we miss so many tackles. Fascinating that we won.
 
Third down conversion rate for the opposition (50%) was horrendous, and this was likely the primary reason.
 
shouright said:
Third down conversion rate for the opposition (50%) was horrendous, and this was likely the primary reason.
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your telling me the only converted half of their third downs, **** it feels like they convert every single time, especially anything over 5.
 
John Biello said:
your telling me the only converted half of their third downs, **** it feels like they convert every single time, especially anything over 5.
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Well half is not exactly good. The worst team in the league surrenders only 1% more than half in general.
 
Grimes is understandable considering normal sized players have trouble tackling green but wheeler and jones!! Wow
 
Grimes was slipping over too often. It might sound pretty basic, but maybe he needs longer cleats.
 
The defense made some great game changing plays when it mattered, and I absolutely give them credit for that. However, you cannot ignore the fact that coming out of half-time the Bengals shoved the ball right down our throats and were going to score until Grimes came up huge with that pick-6. Of course our defense was tired, they couldn't get their asses off the field.

To me it looked like our D was well prepared to start the game, but once again got out coached on the half-time adjustments and came out in the second half not prepared for the Bengals adjustments and again struggled.
 
Missed Tackles were a problem in the pre-season and have become a problem in the regular season. I'm not sure the emphasize on take away's and stripping the ball have contributed to the missed tackle problem, but it sure seems as if, Too many times a player is going for the ball and disregarding the proper tackling technique by wrapping up.
 
Reshad Jones is wearing an invisibility cloak since he got his juicy contract.
 
Ellerbe had an early problem but, has corrected it for the most part. No excuses or reason for Wheeler and Jones (who are both also getting killed in cover).
 
Fin Thirteen said:
Reshad Jones is wearing an invisibility cloak since he got his juicy contract.
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Jones has not been close to what he was last year. He is the weakest link in the secondary, which I never thought I would be posting.
 
They've been missing tackles since the Hall of Fame game when they made all Dallas RBs look like AP, this is one thing that I was especially worried about going into the season. Looks like instead of improving its going in the opposite direction
 
Southbeach 2 said:
Last night, our D had TWENTY THREE missed tackles. That's hard to believe from any pro team. Grimes led the way with 6, Wheeler had 4, Jones had 3, and most chimed in. We have 66 for the year, not good, but last night was especially bad.

Grimes has offset some with VG coverage, and his pick 6. Not so for Wheeler or Jones, who have been major disappointments this year.

Cinci had 93 plays, with 65 being average but, how the hell can we miss so many tackles. Fascinating that we won.
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I thought you were talking about 23 missed tackles on the one Bernard run.
 
Our D got owned by Cinci had it not been for their implosion of mistakes we don't get the W - We did have some individual performances out there (Wake) but overall we lack some athletes
 
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