Phillips explained that a majority of fumbles result from awkward body positions, though each one is different.
“Aaron’s a very downhill runner, and we’ve just gotta continue to emphasize when we are in those awkward body positions, squeezing the ball up into the chest, getting the offhand cover in traffic,” Phillips said, adding the Falcons defense will be a test of those fundamentals.
Phillips said Tuesday that after the Bears game, when Jones lost a goal-line fumble on the Vikings’ opening drive, he found Jones with his family. Jones started apologizing to him again for the slip up.
Phillips pointed out to Jones that he already knew what went wrong. That makes things easier to fix.
But Jones’ mom chimed in that her son would hear about the errors from her either way.