Steelers Film Session: Missed Tackles Prove Costly

Steelers film session: Missed tackles prove costly
By Mark Kaboly
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Tackle the catch.
That's been the backbone of defensive coordinator Dick LeBeau's philosophy for years. If you don't tackle the catch in LeBeau's scheme, you can't be successful.
So what happens when you can't tackle the run?
You're in trouble.
The Steelers found themselves in a lot of trouble Thursday against the Baltimore Ravens when it came to tackling, leading to a 26-6 loss.
The Steelers missed 16 tackles, their most since last year's loss to Minnesota in London.
Worse than the missed tackles were the extra yards they provided the Ravens. The 16 missed tackles resulted in 93 more yards (29 percent of Baltimore's total).
The biggest culprit was safety Mike Mitchell.

Mitchell missed a pair of tackles — one on Bernard Pierce, one on Justin Forsett — that resulted in 41 extra yards of field position. The plays were almost identical.
Mitchell raced down from his free safety position to meet the running back in the hole. On both occasions, the running back cut to the outside for big yards. Mitchell didn't get a hand on either running back.
Linebacker Lawrence Timmons missed five tackles, but those resulted in only 15 extra yards of offense. Cortez Allen missed three, Ryan Shazier two and Troy Polamalu two.
Polamalu, Shazier and Ike Taylor missed the tackle on a first-half run by Pierce