Here's a perfect example of the double standard White defenders have to live with. Black defenders miss badly on a regular basis and it's forgotten by the end of the game if noticed at all, but a single bad angle or missed tackle has the potential to end a White defender's career no matter how well he plays in general. Ironically, Gerry's missed tackle was against Rex Burkhead. And notice the dig at Burkhead, who's made plenty of big plays with the Patriots:
How Eagles' Nate Gerry is moving on from costly blown tackle vs. Patriots
Nate Gerry actually played well Sunday.
Except one play.
That play.
Gerry had a game-high 10 tackles, a tackle for loss, a QB hurry and a sack in the Eagles’ 17-10 loss to the Patriots Sunday.
And a blown tackle.
A really, really, really ugly one.
That whiff was responsible for the game’s pivotal play, Rex Burkhead’s 30-yard catch and run that set up the Patriots’ only touchdown, the game-winner.
Gerry was in perfect position to bring Burkhead down for no gain, maybe a yard, but Burkhead broke free and raced down the left sideline before Avonte Maddox finally brought him down at the Eagles’ 30-yard-line. . .
Gerry is one of only five players in the NFL with two sacks and two interceptions and only the third Eagles linebacker since Jeremiah Trotter in 2001 with two sacks and two INTs in the same season. DeMeco Ryans and Mychal Kendricks both did in 2013.
But ask anybody who watched Eagles-Patriots about Gerry and they'll only remember one play.
Which is understandable.
It’s a tackle he has to make.
Burkhead, who preceeded Gerry by four years at Nebraska, is 5-10, 215 and not exactly a big-time playmaker. That was only his second career reception of 30 yards or more in seven NFL seasons.
full article:
https://www.nbcsports.com/philadelp...missed-tackle-moving-on-it-hurts-me-deep-down