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http://www.footballoutsiders.com/stat-analysis/2013/clean-aisle-2012
Awesome article on tackles in defensive pass coverage. It's worth reading the whole thing, but here are the takeaways that are Cardinals-centric:
Karlos Dansby is good in coverage. We knew this, but Dansby appears on the league leaders board in pass tackles by linebackers and has a pretty solid pass tackle stop percentage (30%).
Jasper Brinkley and Daryl Washington are not good tacklers in pass coverage. Sorry, D-Wash, but you're among the worst linebackers in stopping pass plays from being successful (25%). Just 8 pass-tackle stops in a 100+ tackle season.
But you're not as bad as Jasper Brinkley, who is poised to be the least successful free agent acquisition in this class. Just 17% of Brinkley's pass tackles are stops, and that's second-worst among linebackers. Combined with Brinkley's status as one of the worst linebackers in the NFL at allowing broken tackles, and it becomes more clear why we drafted Kevin Minter, and less clear why the Cards' front office rated Brinkley so highly at the opening of free agency.
Bad news for me is that Antoine Cason may have been the weak link in the San Diego secondary when it comes to laying wood. Numerous Chargers appear on the "clean-up tackles" list, but Cason was frequently targeted and rarely brought his man down before he'd done his job (59 tackles, just 6 stops).
It was interesting to me that so few Arizona DBs (zero) appeared on this list, but it turns out that Arizona allowed the fewest overall completions in the NFL last year. Part of that is good pass defense, the other part is that teams started running the ball to run the clock after they were up 6 points and the game was hopelessly out of reach.
Awesome article on tackles in defensive pass coverage. It's worth reading the whole thing, but here are the takeaways that are Cardinals-centric:
Karlos Dansby is good in coverage. We knew this, but Dansby appears on the league leaders board in pass tackles by linebackers and has a pretty solid pass tackle stop percentage (30%).
Jasper Brinkley and Daryl Washington are not good tacklers in pass coverage. Sorry, D-Wash, but you're among the worst linebackers in stopping pass plays from being successful (25%). Just 8 pass-tackle stops in a 100+ tackle season.
But you're not as bad as Jasper Brinkley, who is poised to be the least successful free agent acquisition in this class. Just 17% of Brinkley's pass tackles are stops, and that's second-worst among linebackers. Combined with Brinkley's status as one of the worst linebackers in the NFL at allowing broken tackles, and it becomes more clear why we drafted Kevin Minter, and less clear why the Cards' front office rated Brinkley so highly at the opening of free agency.
Bad news for me is that Antoine Cason may have been the weak link in the San Diego secondary when it comes to laying wood. Numerous Chargers appear on the "clean-up tackles" list, but Cason was frequently targeted and rarely brought his man down before he'd done his job (59 tackles, just 6 stops).
It was interesting to me that so few Arizona DBs (zero) appeared on this list, but it turns out that Arizona allowed the fewest overall completions in the NFL last year. Part of that is good pass defense, the other part is that teams started running the ball to run the clock after they were up 6 points and the game was hopelessly out of reach.