Safeties Tackling

[amart824]

Say what you will about our safeties' ability to cover, I personally see nothing but upside. But something I've loved seeing is a renewed focus on recruiting players who tackle well. Wilcox, Heath, and Church are all sure tacklers who have been outstanding at preventing additional yards past their initial contact. It was great in the past to see guys like Roy Williams and Ken Hamlin lay the wood on someone, but for every one of those big hits there was seemingly 4-5 glancing blows on other plays that wouldn't bring a ball-carrier down and result in additional yardage gained.

If we can ever shake the injury bug for even half a season and teach our young safeties to excel in coverage, I think our secondary has a very bright future ahead of them.

 

[nalam]

Say what you will about our safeties' ability to cover, I personally see nothing but upside. But something I've loved seeing is a renewed focus on recruiting players who tackle well. Wilcox, Heath, and Church are all sure tacklers ...

Church is tackling well and Wilcox lays the wood and tackles well too ,but at times take bad dangles. Heath on the other hand has ways to go, but he is improving too once he stopped trying to strip the ball every time he had a tackle situation , first and foremost safety needs to tackle and only go for the strip if he is assisted by another tackler. In the Detroit game he gave up more yards trying to strip the ball.

 

[cowboys1981]

Heath has improved. I've seen him get away from trying to hit to actually wrap tackling. Church is one of our best tacklers as far as technique. I love how he goes right for those ankles on the wrap up. Wilcox plays as if he's a spearhead and he won't be on the field often going in head first like that. Aside for that I love his progression on pass coverage.

 

[SportsGuru80]

Heath needs way more work!

 

[cowboyschmps3]

Heath does good when he wraps up.