Brian Mitchell and JP Finlay discuss Washington's lack of finishing tackles in the Week 1 loss to Tampa
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00:00I think when you listen to Dan and also I listened to John on the junks yesterday
00:05Uh, and even guys after the game the mindset was that they got the pass rush. They just got to finish
00:12And I agree with them
00:14But the ultimate thing is finishing. Okay
00:17And I don't know why or what but if you look at football today
00:22This is not just the commanders or or you know, most teams that we just sit and watch look at most of the games
00:28in the nfl
00:30That first week was some horrible tackling
00:33Sure, some teams had great tackling
00:36You understand what i'm saying? So what are they doing differently than what we're doing?
00:41You know, I know that guys run full speed and they run past the guy like I would hit you
00:47And I told you back in the day with coach Gibbs
00:50Everyone would think that back in the day. We basically tackled everybody to the ground on every play. We did not do that
00:56We would come in I say full speed butt up so they hit you
00:59Wrap their arms around a lot of people will lift you put you back on the ground
01:04But what did they do? They if they wrap if they lifted you they had to wrap up
01:09Okay
01:10The stuff that they do in practice today
01:13most teams
01:14They're not even wrapping up bro. They just run at the guy and go. Oh, I would have made the tackle hit and wrap
01:20has kind of
01:21been on a fairly
01:23Rapid decline i'd say for the last 10 15 years even like when big hit like
01:28Backers still tend to wrap but a lot of times when safeties are making tackles
01:32They're just flying in for big hits normally because the guy is not seeing them because see
01:37I will say I will go I will say this
01:39When a guy would run up to me in practice
01:42Like the yell like he attacked me. I laughed at him because most times you can hit me
01:47If you don't wrap up and you're not bringing some bringing your ass i'm gonna level you
01:51Most running backs don't just go down with the first hit right and we got receivers now like debo samuels
01:56They don't go down with the first hit so the wrap up what it does
02:00If you wrap up not many people can run with 200 300 200 to 250 300 pounds on their waist
02:06So you give your other guys a chance to come over and help you out
02:09But just running and hitting somebody that doesn't work anymore
02:13And I believe that they need to go back to that full speed butt up and the running back once they drop you receiver
02:18You keep running
02:20And it's so quick. It's like a second sure boom boom
02:23They drop and you're gone, but I really believe the wrapping up part of football
02:28Has it's not a a thing that it's so great anymore