The Miami Dolphins didn’t show a whole lot of exotic looks defensively — that will be reserved for September when the games start counting for real. But one thing the team did show defensively is going to be a sticking point for new Dolphins head coach Brian Flores: bad tackling.
The Dolphins defense was scrappy but sloppy throughout the course of last night’s event — even with starring defenders like Minkah Fitzpatrick serving as a guilty party in the tackling department. Coach Flores noted it after the contest.
“I thought tackling was an issue — a major issue. And it’s something that we’ll work on, it’s something that we talk about,” said Flores.
“Tackling, communication, defending the deep part of the field. It wasn’t good enough. When you don’t tackle well you’re going to give up yardage. It’s as simple as that…I can think of four or five missed tackles off the top of my head that would have kept the score down a little bit more than it was.”
It’s nice to know that Flores’ mind is in the right state — how to get this team better at everything that they need to do in order to perform above the low expectations the rest of the football world has defined for them. Time to get back on the practice field and brush up on the tackling this week!
