05-08-2020, 06:08 PM
(05-08-2020, 06:00 PM)Nate (formerly eliminate08) Wrote: Kind of weird Bates tackled so well as a rookie (much better than I thought he would) and then regressed so much in this area.
Hopefully the addition of Vonn Bell will really help him out. This and more physical tackling practices.
Good point. I've been wondering if the guys so guilty of bad tackling last year were always bad tacklers, or if they just developed bad habits under this coaching staff. I honestly don't know the answer to that. Kirkpatrick was always bad at tackling, but he's just one guy. You hear so much from ZT about trying to keep them fresh, etc, you just wonder if the flipside of that is you let bad habits slip in.
