Bucky Irving Forces A Lot Of Missed Tackles
October 30th, 2024
No need for forcing a missed tackle here by Bucky Irving.
Apparently, there is an art to forcing missed tackles. One Bucs running back still strives for this trait. Another Bucs running back is gifted with this trait.
One of Joe’s biggest gripes about running back Rachaad White is that Joe is pretty convinced he couldn’t make a mailbox miss him.
As Joe has often typed and verbalized when people stomped their feet and hollered about how the Bucs offensive line wasn’t opening up big enough holes for White (assuming he would see them), Joe stated over and over, “Roger Goodell still allows running backs to dodge defenders and make dudes miss.”
White was and is still bad at this.
Not Bucs rookie Bucky Irving. When the Bucs drafted him in the fourth round, Bucs types trumpeted how he made would-be tacklers miss. Often, the first tackler. This was clear on game tape from Oregon.
And boy, has that sure carried over into the NFL. Per NextGen Stats, no running back is forcing more missed tackles, percentage-wise, than Irving. It seems on nearly 46 percent of his runs, Irving forces a missed tackle.
So basically on half of his runs, Irving is able to dodge and defender and get more positive yardage on his carry.
Joe looked up the PFF tribe’s running back stats. They had Irving with the 11th most forced missed tackles (25). (White is No. 38 with 11).
Now, with the Bucs offensive line looking pretty good, and on Sunday the Bucs were opening up holes so wide that even White couldn’t miss them, Joe is looking forward to Irving juking dudes out of their shoes and busting ankles on the second- and third-levels more often.
October 30th, 2024 at 12:09 am
Doesn’t matter because he rarely has over 10 carries.
Tucker breaks out and gets 3.
I will say it again, Bowles needs to quit being a father figure who cares about feelings and be THE COACH of a Billion dollar football team.
It can’t possibly be talent evaluation at this point because EVERYONE sees it.
October 30th, 2024 at 12:58 am
I agree Billy
October 30th, 2024 at 2:15 am
I agree as well
October 30th, 2024 at 2:57 am
Bucky is the SH!T!
MFer is pure electricity.
Give him the ball!!!!!!!!
October 30th, 2024 at 3:40 am
Bucky and Tucker will only get a majority of the snaps if White is hurt as was the situation in New Orleans when the Bucs boat raced the hapless Aints. Other than an injury, Bowles will not make a roster move, except for punter of course and benching an UDFA CB from App State who was in way over his head last Sunday. JJ Russell only got on the field when Lavonte had to go to the sideline…. What is the definition of insanity again??????
Loyalty to a player can be admired in certain situations but on offense we have players who have high potential having their snaps limited because Bowels thinks White has the highest ceiling (which is mind boggling in itself) and on defense he stubbornly will not make any roster changes and continue to babble a bunch of gibberish as he justifies his stubbornness and inability to be accountable and admit that he has to fix a dumpster fire of a D which is as bad as the D we had seen with Mike Smith and Lovie.
October 30th, 2024 at 4:12 am
yung bucky is the funnest of the fun guys on the team to watch…
he’s a juke and a shimmy away from the endzone on almost every touch…
go bucky go…
run bucky run…
score bucky score…
October 30th, 2024 at 4:29 am
I knew what I saw watching him in college….and he’s already got part of our name on him….cant make that stuff up.