Jones & Keefe: Christian Elliss weighs in on the Patriots' tackling woes

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00:00Not to make excuses or anything, but throughout training camp

00:03and the preseason, there's not a ton of tackling.

00:05You guys kind of go through and contact and everything,

00:08but there's not a lot of bring players down to the ground tackling.

00:12Early in the season, is there a little bit of a trying to catch up

00:16to live game action just because you see some missed tackles

00:21and you wonder, had you practiced it more, maybe it would be a little bit

00:24to translate more to the game days.

00:27Yeah, and that's something we're going to really look at.

00:30This week, especially in the linebacker room, just because it's not normal

00:35and obviously it's something we've got to fix.

00:41So I think it's something we're going to look at heavily into this week,

00:45especially me, because I think it just comes down to just the fundamentals of it.

00:52I see a lot for myself, leaving my feet, which is not something I ever really want to do.

00:57I want to run through guys, keep your feet driving, driving, driving.

01:01And so there's been a lot of lunging.

01:05I'll speak for myself on my end.

01:08So we're going to look at that this week and get some drills dialed up

01:11and figure it out because it'll get better as the season goes on.

01:15You were right that you don't get much live tackling.

01:19But now that we've noticed it, especially the two games in a row

01:23where there's been a few missed tackles,

01:25I think that's something we're going to really look into this week.