05-08-2020, 05:31 PM
(05-08-2020, 05:28 PM)fredtoast Wrote: All stats from Footballoutsiders.
Last year the Bengals defense was "only" 20th in broken tackle percentage. I say "only" because it seemed much worse. The reason for that is the Bengals defense was on the field for so many plays. They were 4th in total broken tackles, but the percentage was low because of the high number of plays.
Nick Vigil led all LBs with 23 broken tackles. But when you look at broken tackles as a percentage of total tackles there wer actually several worse then him.
I doubt anyone is surprised by Vigil being #1 among all LBs, but it was a bit of a surprise that our safeties finished #1 (Bates 23) and #2 (Williams 22) in broken tackles. Again when you look at it as a percentage of total tackles there are several that are worse.
We HAVE to get better at tackling. The 2019 numbers are actually slightly better than 2018 (25th in %), but still completely unacceptable.
A lot has been made of the tackling abilities of the DBs we signed. It looks like there may be something to this. Look at the numbers for the new guys and the players they replaced (lower percentage better)
Trae Waynes…….12.9%
Kirkpatrick...…...19.4%
Alexander...……… 3.7%
Dennard...……….11.1%
Bell...……………...16.7%
Bates...…………...26.7%
Williams...………..23.2%
Unfortunately the Free agent LB e signed is pretty much the same as Vigil in broken tackle %, but hopefully we won't see much of him on the filed with all the LBs we drafted
Bynes………………..26.9%
Vigil...………………..28.8%
Hope no one is planning on Bynes making the tackles against Lamar Jackson that Vigil whiffed.
Nice post, it's an interesting metric. Bates was really bad last year in the run game. He would come up to make the tackle in the box and completely whiff. Led to some big runs on the outside.
I personally feel that Bynes will be phased out of the starting lineup as the rookie LBs prove themselves over the season. Hopefully Logan Wilson, ADG and the others will have this metric down in the 15-20% range.
