Bengals take the title for most missed tackles...

my son said "bet if we had tomlin we wouldnt be missing tackles" he was incorrect...

just thinking we could have been dead last still and missed like 40 less tackels and been like 11-6 prolly

id like to tsee the game by game and see if that improved..

Most dropepd passes, higher than youd expect but we did have a new QB every 2 games and the WR room had issues especially with flacco early on..

good to not be on this list....

Interesting list here...

4 hours ago, GoBengals said:

Most dropepd passes, higher than youd expect but we did have a new QB every 2 games and the WR room had issues especially with flacco early on..

I’m surprised the Browns aren’t higher.

7 hours ago, GoBengals said:

Bengals take the title for most missed tackles...

my son said "bet if we had tomlin we wouldnt be missing tackles" he was incorrect...

just thinking we could have been dead last still and missed like 40 less tackels and been like 11-6 prolly

id like to tsee the game by game and see if that improved..

100 more missed tackles than the team with the fewest

ouch

16 hours ago, Jamie_B said:

100 more missed tackles than the team with the fewest

ouch

40 more than 2nd worst. That's how they achieved historic levels of suck.

To somehow get worse after 2024, with defense as their focus.. and then act like nothing needs to change, from top to bottom... Absolutely delusional.

It must be like Wonka Land inside PBS.. Got the VP of Fan Restroom Experiences handing out candy canes while the draft team meets around a gingerbread conference table with 9 empty seats. End of the day everyone's clocking out with cotton candy stuck to their shirts and the entire head office staff forms a line for mandatory high-fives before piling into a single '68 VW Bug covered in polka dots.

3 minutes ago, T-Dub said:

40 more than 2nd worst. That's how they achieved historic levels of suck.

To somehow get worse after 2024, with defense as their focus.. and then act like nothing needs to change, from top to bottom... Absolutely delusional.

It must be like Wonka Land inside PBS.. Got the VP of Fan Restroom Experiences handing out candy canes while the draft team meets around a gingerbread conference table with 9 empty seats

Well something did change, they changed their defensive scheme. It took half a season before players started to understand it well enough to play fast. Which happened right around the bye week.

What I would be curious about is the rate in missed tackles before and after the bye week.

1 minute ago, Jamie_B said:

Well something did change, they changed their defensive scheme. It took half a season before players started to understand it well enough to play fast. Which happened right around the bye week.

What I would be curious about is the rate in missed tackles before and after the bye week.

Let me save you some trouble: they still sucked. The 2025 defense was worse than the 2024 defense. That's kind of incredible.

Just now, T-Dub said:

Let me save you some trouble: they still sucked.

No, they went from historically bad, to still not good enough.

Just now, Jamie_B said:

No, they went from historically bad, to still not good enough.

That's simply not true: they were historically bad this year, after also being historically bad last year. They outdid themselves.

Like to see the missed tackles broken down by player.

1 minute ago, T-Dub said:

That's simply not true: they were historically bad this year, after also being historically bad last year. They outdid themselves.

Right and what I am trying to get at is are most of these missed tackles before or after the bye?

I think by the eye test, they got better after the bye, what I am looking for is the actual data to see this.

28 minutes ago, Jamie_B said:

Right and what I am trying to get at is are most of these missed tackles before or after the bye?

I think by the eye test, they got better after the bye, what I am looking for is the actual data to see this.

Most missed tackles before and after Cam Taylor-Swift went on IR?

1 minute ago, High School Harry said:

Most missed tackles before and after Cam Taylor-Swift went on IR?

From what I have read the most misses came from both of our safeties. The question for me is were they missing because the rookie linebackers in front of them were not where they were supposed to be causing Battle and Stone to have to adjust?

So much we really don't know, we just know the results.

Well, this means they were at 109 after the week 9 game. ~12 missed tackles per game. It went down to 8 after the bye. (62 / 8)

The Commanders missed 7.7 tackles per game. So, after the bye we were equal to the worst tackling team.

If I'm reading right then they went from 12 per to 8 per

Still not good, but an improvement. Be pretty dope if we could drop that 8 per down to 4 per by the start of next season.

37 minutes ago, Jamie_B said:

Be pretty dope if we could drop that 8 per down to 4 per by the start of next season.

How about -0-?

My father (former youth football coach and high school and college player) would be apoplectic at the lack of tackling.

The Jets did not record an interception for the 2025 season.

First time this has ever happened in the modern football era (1933).

1 hour ago, Shebengal said:

How about -0-?

My father (former youth football coach and high school and college player) would be apoplectic at the lack of tackling.

-0-? would be the dream wouldnt it?

https://www.si.com/nfl/bengals/onsi/news/counting-up-bengals-missed-tackles-and-where-they-rank-among-worst-offenders-in-2024-01je40mzdrct

Interesting... Through 9 games in 2024, the Bengals defense gave up... Drum roll..... 109 missed tackles.