Giants among poorest tackling teams in the NFL last season
The New York Giants defense has a tackling problem. Or, at least it had one -- a serious one -- in 2014. That's the only way to read a Football Outsiders study of broken tackles allowed by defenses in 2014.
Per Football Outsiders, the Giants missed a total of 96 tackles on 79 plays last season, a rate of a missed tackle on 7.9 percent of defensive plays. That placed the Giants 27th in the league in that category. Scream about the schemes of former defensive coordinator Perry Fewell all you want, but that is 96 times (exactly six per game) Fewell's defenses put players in position to make tackles that did not get made.