DaBruinz said:
A corner having 12 solo tackles isn't necessarily a good thing. Particularly if they were on pass completions to his side of the field.
Do you happen to know which game it was? I'd like to just take a look at the play-by-play to see if they were on completion or not.
Bruinz, I knew that would be the first point raised. Arrelbee did a breakdown assuming a PD/solo tackle ratio would tell the story there. Yes and no.
But first to your question, I pulled that stat from the original article posted here. Someone posted later and broke down the >6 solos, and no, I have just the derivative stat.
But I'll speak to the point of "tackling corners" (and can come back with some stat lines to support it.) First of all, it
is true that tackles include running plays. More broadly, I play in a fantasy league [sic] with IDPs, and you get points for tackles. Many of the guys with the big INT and PD totals also rack up the solo tackles. There don't tend to be CBs worth looking at just because of their solo tackle totals. As Arrelbee shows, Law (considered an elite corner) doesn't rack up a high PD vs solo tackle ratio.
You also have to figure, using the same "PD better than tackle" logic, that shutting a guy down totally will not show up on a stat line at all. That is, if the guy isn't open and isn't thrown to, you don't get a PD or a tackle.
What I liked about the 12-tackle game is, that meant he was all over the field, making plays whether on the run or the pass. Either that, or he got beat on a ton of plays, yet still was able to pop the guy just about every time.
Okay, just to substantiate for last year's Warfield >6 tackle games, I am going to go back and look at the drives and scoring in those games... it should at least give us a clue as to which way this sorted out in his case.
PFnV
