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Well.... shit. Hayze Perham confirmed ACL..... year done

They really need to break the missed tackle into like two or three categories. Ineffective Tackle - you made contact and effectively slowed / stopped the player until they were properly tackled. Missed Tackle - they ran right fucking by you (hands on them or not) - this one always gets me - if you don't get a hand on them because they burned you - you don't get a missed tackle... travesty!. With the focus these days on going high and stopping momentum, but keeping them upright to slow...

He's been leading missed tackles since his time at broncos, so it's well known across the league at this point. I think at times it's due to him going up high trying to slow down the backrower and wait for help, but gets bumped off / pushed back... like those JT tackles where he gets pushed back front on but drags his hands with him and sometimes the ball comes out with him. Leads to a lot of missed tackles in the stat sheet though. He's not alone in that stat though with Ezra, Foran...

I agree 100% with you... I think the saying nowadays is "not all missed tackles are the same". As you say you don't make it to origin and defend in the middle if you can't make a tackle. I'm just pointing out that Bhunt has been a leading missed tackler since his last time at the Broncos, but he's racked up over 300 games at this point... so it's not like it's something new to the league or something that has popped up out of nowhere. I think missed tackles is an overrated stat... I think...

BHunt is a mainstay of Origin - you don't get picked to be in the top 13 if you're a turn-style, especially in the middle third. He can miss a few, like any half - but I'd say a lot of them are ineffective / falling off after initial contact rather than an ezra classic of having them run right by him.