Offense gets fans in the seats, but defenses win championships. Arizona Cardinals head coach Jonathan Gannon is a defensive-minded. He brought over his strategies that worked well when he was the DC ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — Momentum is building for the NFL’s next on-field rule change. The league’s competition committee, as well as its health and safety committee, are discussing how to respond to a tackling ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tackling was a major point of emphasis for the Seahawks defense during the regular season, and that will continue during the ...