The British government has taken some steps to tackle name-bias.
He gave the nickname Clyde to a player named Melvyn McCoy "because we can't have a big tackle named Melvyn".
When Desire Street travels Friday to Port Sulphur, La., its opponent, South Plaquemines High, will field a 332-pound freshman nose tackle named Jeffery Espadron.
Marshall weighed only a hundred and sixty-five pounds, but all his classmates agree that he played rings around a gigantic Virginia tackle named Lloyd, in V.M.I. retrospect perhaps the largest man ever to play football.
The team points to investor dollars pouring into a slew of security startups also plying a nascent decoy furrow for tackling attacks — name checking the likes of TopSpin, Attivo, Guardicore, illusive Networks, YC-backed Cymmetria and TrapX, and noting they have collectively bagged more than $100 million in VC funding since late 2014.
Carolina Panthers linebacker Luke Kuechly, who led the league with 164 tackles, was named the defensive rookie of the year.
The unhappy Washington Redskins tackle Albert Haynesworth's name immediately surfaced as a possible replacement, but he has already expressed his displeasure with playing nose tackle in a 3-4 defense.
There are plenty of dire issues in this world that you could tackle in the name of God.
In 1977, the Jets drafted a relentless defensive tackle from Temple named Joe Klecko, who became part of the vaunted defensive line known as the New York Sack Exchange.
At Bucknell University, which he attended on an academic scholarship, he played defensive tackle and was named to the Little All-America team.
It was only on the penultimate day that we first plucked up the courage to tackle the (appropriately named) "Wall" – a steep black run with some fantastic moguls to challenge us.
