Back to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Newsfeed

Why have the Tampa Bay Buccaneers been bad at tackling for years?

Missing tackles has been a bit of a pastime for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers ever since Monte Kiffin was fired. That's despite three different defensive-minded head coaches, each with his own defensive coordinator. We got to talk to Football Outsiders about their observations in their 2016 Almanac (buy it here!), and they ehm...yeah, they confirmed exactly what we knew already.

The Bucs had the fifth-most broken tackles on defense in 2010. Since then they have ranked first, 21st, 13th, 26th, and then first again last year. So, really, just one of the last six seasons have they been better than average at making tackles.