Thursday, August 08, 2013

to tackle? or not to tackle? that is the question for preseason....

Yahoo posted an interesting article NFL teams trending toward no tackling in camp

What caught my eyes are the following quotes:

"Far more AFC teams tackle in camp than in the NFC. The New York Jets, Miami, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Denver and San Diego tackle to the ground to some degree whether it's scrimmages, 9-on-7 drills or goal-line situations."

"In the NFC, Detroit, Atlanta, San Francisco, Green Bay and Dallas have tackled to the ground on rare occasions such as open scrimmages for fans."


Also of note, KC is a tackling team and PHI is no longer a tackling team. It would be nice to have a complete list.

Now if we could apply this to preseason somehow... It is interesting that for HoF game DAL won and MIA loss. Perhaps DAL won due to more time put into offensive execution???

I guess you could add GB and CAR as tackling teams, due to recent reports of fighting.

AFC
NE ?

BAL?
CLE?

HOU?
IND?
JAC?
TEN?

OAK?

NFC
NYG?
WAS?

CHI?
MIN?

NO?
TB?

ARI?
SEA?
STL?

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