At times he's the fastest guy on the field and one of the best tacklers. AZ is a real cornerback. He can run with anybody they put against him.
Quotes about tacklers (12 Quotes)
In the National Football League, there are a lot of teams that the safeties are the leading tacklers on their football team and that is why we call them safeties. They have got to be good tacklers and at times, we can tackle and do tackle. Other times, it is just bad. That is just like someone trying to be a journalist and you have to teach them how to write. They are supposed to know how to write. If you are a defensive football player you are supposed to know how to tackle and if you can't, you are in the wrong profession.
He is the only quarterback I have ever seen that actually looks for the other color helmet, and then tries to hit it. He hunts for tacklers, and wants to punish them for trying to tackle him.
Jamal's a house, ... I tried to tackle him in the Pro Bowl a couple times and he's not an easy guy to bring down. He's a big boy and he runs hard. We've got our work cut out for us. We've got to stay in our gaps and be sure tacklers.
He was one of our best tacklers last year. He's playing rover back this year (on defense), so he's going to have the opportunity to make a lot of plays.
They've got fast, quick and elusive guys. We have to be great tacklers. They can make one person miss and take it to the house.
He carries so many tacklers with him, he's listed in the Yellow Pages under 'Public Transportation.'
He runs with an attitude. He's running to punish the tacklers. He's better right now than last year by far.
They give up very few big plays. They're very good at keeping the ball in front of their good tacklers.
He didn't say, 'Hines, I'm about to pitch it,' ... He saw me and I looked at him. I thought he was going to get out of (the tackler's grip) and I was going to try to block. The ball hit me in the hands, so I needed to catch it, I guess. I take responsibility for that.
They are pretty young. The Patrick Haynes kid is probably the fastest kid in the conference so we will have to wrap him up. We have to be tremendous tacklers. We can't let the Haynes kid get out in the open. We need to make sure we read our keys properly and run to the football and make plays.
Coach Mac (Tim MacDonald) told us last week that the defensive line should be the leading tacklers this week and we took that to heart.