Film review: The Eagles’ tackling sucked against the Buccaneers

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Over the bye week, fixing the Eagles tackling problem will be a priority.

Eagles S Reed Blankenship (32) had three missed tackles against the Buccaneers.

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In their Week 4 loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the Philadelphia Eagles forgot how to tackle, as short Buccaneers gains turned into long ones, and drives that might have otherwise stalled instead led to points.

NFL Next Gen Stats had the Eagles down for 16 missed tackles. Defensive coordinator Vic Fangio said on Tuesday that the Eagles counted 15. I took a look myself, and found 13. Here are those 13 missed tackles, in thread form, via Twitter:…

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