Regardless of whether there’s a national tackling epidemic, there is a missed tackles epidemic in the burnt orange nation right now as the Texas Longhorns suffered through numerous mistakes in that regard against the Texas Tech Red Raiders last Saturday.
“It was disappointing, absolutely,” Orlando said on Wednesday. “To me, it’s technical. Your right of passage to get on the field in this defense is you better be a tough guy, but I thought us throwing low on guys, I thought technically it was poor, we weren’t running through guys, we were catching guys, and that’s not us.