Southern plagued by missed tackles in loss to Alcorn State. 'That's what cost us the game'

LORMAN, Mississippi -- Immediately after a 48-31 loss to Alcorn State, senior cornerback Danny Johnson had a pretty clear idea of what went wrong defensively.

“We missed a lot of tackles,” said senior cornerback Danny Johnson. “… I just feel like we’ve got to focus in more on that in practice, everybody’s got to take tackling seriously because that’s what cost us the game.”

It’s not a statistic that is officially tracked, but Southern clearly had difficulty wrangling the Braves, specifically running backs De’Lance Turner and P.J. Simmons, who combined to gash the Jaguars for 332 yards and four scores rushing.

Coach Dawson Odums wasn’t as quick to lay the blame on missed tackles after the game, but he vowed a solution would be on the horizon.

“I’ve got to look at the film and see what’s happening, I couldn’t see it from our sideline,” Odums said. “But we’re going to make some adjustments. We’re going to fix this run defense.”



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