Through five games, Jackson was tied for the team lead in interceptions (three) and ranked fourth in tack- les (23).
can." And Jackson does
things hard, to be sure. In fact, he doesn't un- derstand why some de- fenders shy away from collisions. "I just feel like you
have to work it, really work it and not just going through the mo- tions," he explained of something so seem-
ingly elementary as tackling. "We work it all the time in practice. Coach [Kerry] Cooks and Coach [Bob] Diaco and Coach [Bob] Elliott put us in situations that we're going to be in in the game. You really just have the intent to make the tackle. If you're go- ing to run up and not really want to make the
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tackle, you're not going to make the tackle. "If you're going to run
up and you want to pun- ish the kid, you're going to make the tackle. I just go into every hit trying to punish whoever I'm hitting. Maybe some guys just aren't cut from the same cloth as [other] people; they don't like to hit. Some people are
