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Eagles player explains to 4-year-old that mating giraffes are not tackling each other

The 49ers hired recently departed Eagles coach Chip Kelly, so we got curious and looked around at Eagles’ Twitter accounts to see if they had anything to say. Some of them did! Philadelphia defensive back Chris Maragos was busy with something else:

Very curious how the rest of that conversation went ...

“Well, no, that’s not tackling. They love each other very much so they’re hugging.”

“So what about when all those guys jump on your back when you’re playing football?”

“That’s tackling.”

“But you just said it’s sex.”

“No, this is dif-- wait, I never said sex. Where’d you get that from?”

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