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Falcons ranked as one of the worst-tackling teams in the league for 2024

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Your Atlanta Falcons did some good things in 2024, but I think you’d be hard pressed to argue that tackling was one of them. The number of times missed tackles were impactful was not a small number, and those errors were insanely costly against the Commanders in particular.

That impression is backed up by the eye test—we all watched those games!—and the team’s missed tackle number, which ranked 24th in the NFL. The Next Gen team at NFL.com took a more advanced look at the team’s tackling metrics and ranked them...24th in the NFL.