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Even though it seems like a risky idea in the heart of an NFL season, it turns out you can take an outside linebacker and make him the middle linebacker on less than a week’s notice.And you can also have two cornerbacks go missing, and, additionally, find yourself forced to start a free safety who might or might not be able to play. There can be players elevated from the practice squad and players signed from somewhere else, and they can all be thrown into the mix. All of that can happen, and the defense can take the field with more patches than the English faculty coat closet.You just can’t win that way very often.The Eagles lost to the San Diego Chargers, 31-23, for a number of reasons …

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Patchwork D comes up short

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