Ahead of a Saturday game against a University of Toronto team with the top passing offence in Canadian college football this season, Queen’s Gaels coach Steve Snyder was decrying a basic element of his defence’s recent performance. Article content

Namely, tackling. Article content Article content

It can hardly get more basic than that. Unless it’s flag football you’re playing, the whole idea is to get the opponents on the ground if they’ve got the ball, with prejudice when possible.

What Snyder saw of his defence in his video review of Gaels’ 47-32 loss to defending OUA champion Laurier.

“I thought our tackling (against Laurier) wasn’t as strong as it needed to be,” Snyder said at his weekly media briefing. “That’s usually a result to playing more talented athletes, Laurier certain

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