10-04-2015, 12:28 PM
(10-04-2015, 12:02 PM)SFmajor Wrote: The problem may be that a missed tackle can be subjective. This is because a play made or missed can be determined by a fraction of a second in where the defensive player was in respect to where the ball carrier was at that time. A defensive player may have been out of position due to a block or covering a gap that did not give him the best angle to make a tackle.
Very subjective.
Many times you see defensive players that take bad pursuit angles and never get a hand on a player, yet they are never considered to have "missed a tackles".
then you have other cases where a ball carrier is running toward a tackler in the open field and when he makes a move the defender is charged with a "missed tackle". the fact is that if a ball carrier is running straight at you in the open field he has a tremendous advantage over a defender. The ball carrier knows which way he is going to fake and which way he is going to run. It is actually very difficult to NOT get deeked by a ball carrier and miss the tackle.
