hard to get better as a tackler<\/a> being in the NFL, I\u2019ll say that,\u201d Gannon told reporters on Wednesday.<\/p>\nGannon said the Cardinals have tackling drills in \u201csome way, shape or form because that\u2019s one of the top skills of any defense player,\u201d but he said there\u2019s \u201cno drill you can do that can mimic a game.\u201d<\/p>\n
And it all traces, in Gannon\u2019s view, to rules that make it harder to teach and practice tackling.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s set up how it\u2019s set up, that\u2019s fine,\u201d Gannon said. \u201cBut to get better at a skill, you have to practice the skill. You practice skill, you can scale it, you can scale the tempo, you can scale how you do it, but to practice a skill, you need to practice the skill.\u201d<\/p>\n
The rule changes first emerged with the 2011 CBA negotiations, when the owners closed the deal by agreeing to various terms that ultimately cost the league no money \u2014 like reduced padded practices and other changes to the non-game workload.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd so it\u2019s a conundrum I think all defensive guys face and there\u2019s risk-reward to trying to practice it with it however you set things up,\u201d Gannon said. \u201cBut you definitely have to be a good tackling defense to play good defense.\u201d<\/p>\n
The reality is that the rules are the same for all teams, and that the rules have been restrictive for 15 seasons now. Also, plenty of teams have managed to teach their players how to tackle in games \u2014 or to find players who don\u2019t need any specific drills to know how to do it at the professional level.<\/p>\n
From tackling to blocking to everything else that goes into winning football games, the Cardinals collectively don\u2019t have enough. After starting 2-0, they\u2019ve gone 1-11. Which puts Gannon in position to get sacked when the season ends in 18 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Embattled Cardinals coach Jonathan Gannon has a beef regarding the ability to teach his defensive players how to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-355781","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}