The Eagles are outsmarting and demoralizing the rest of the NFL by going old-school Mike Sielski HEAD TOPICS
The Eagles are outsmarting and demoralizing the rest of the NFL by going old-school Mike Sielski
10/21/2022 12:44:00 PM Daily News The Eagles are outsmarting and demoralizing the rest of the NFL by going old-school
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Daily News The Eagles are outsmarting and demoralizing the rest of the NFL by going old-school Opposing teams know the Eagles are going to run the ball, especially late in a game. They just can't do anything to stop it. . And, most interestingly, they can employ and are employing this strategy at a time when it is primed to work.As more and more teams have built their offenses around their quarterbacks and their passing games, as more and more teams rely on concepts that were once consigned to college football — the spread, first and foremost — defenses have adjusted over time. One of the primary adjustments they’ve made, as Pro Football Focus’ Seth Galina pointed out last year, is to play more nickel. That is, instead of playing a traditional alignment with three linebackers, they’re more frequently taking a linebacker off the field and replacing him with a defensive back. Read more:
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One of the primary adjustments they’ve made, as Pro Football Focus’ Seth Galina pointed out last year, is to play more nickel. They moved to 5-1 with a victory over the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday. That is, instead of playing a traditional alignment with three linebackers, they’re more frequently taking a linebacker off the field and replacing him with a defensive back. Mailata was featured in the last season of The Masked Singer and Kelce has performed the national anthem at a home game for the Sixers. “In 2020,” Galina wrote , “only one-quarter of all defensive snaps were played with three linebackers on the field. That is the lowest rate in any of the 15 years of PFF data. Mailata and Kelce published the announcement on Instagram Wednesday with a video montage documenting their journey of the album's creation..” Now, a team with a great quarterback and/or great receivers might not fear such an adjustment, and it might throw the ball anyway, because that’s what its offense is built to do. But if a defense is choosing to be smaller and faster, then an offense, in turn, can be bigger and stronger and flex its muscles, either by choice or necessity. "Cannot properly verbalize what a pleasure it was to create and sing on this album. » READ MORE: Lane Johnson matters more to the Eagles’ Super Bowl hopes than anyone. After his third concussion, his health matters more. According to Kelce , all proceeds of the album will to the Children's Crisis Treatment Center's annual toy drive. The Atlanta Falcons are an ideal example of the latter approach. They have a turnover-prone quarterback in Marcus Mariota and just one elite pass-catcher in tight end Kyle Pitts. The album announcement comes as the Eagles in the 2022-2023 NFL season. It hasn’t taken long for Arthur Smith, their second-year head coach, to figure out that they aren’t going to win many games by having Mariota drop back 35-40 times a game. So the Falcons are instead pounding opponents with a terrific running game. They’re second to the Eagles in rushing attempts (202), third in yards (991), and ninth in yards per attempt (4. 9), and despite having Matt Ryan chew up more than $40 million worth of dead money against their salary cap , despite the expectations that they’d be among the league’s worst teams, they’re 3-3 and tied for first in the NFC South. The Eagles aren’t the Falcons. They have A.J. Brown and DeVonta Smith and Dallas Goedert and Quez Watkins and Zach Pascal, and as good as their running attack has been, they’re sticking to the same formula that has been a staple of their offensive philosophy since Reid was here: Throw the ball to get the lead; run the ball to protect it. Take their first game and their latest. Against the Lions, 17 of their first 25 offensive plays were called passes. Against the Cowboys, 14 of their first 20 offensive plays were. In other words, the Eagles have options, and even when most of those options fail, they can still rely on what everyone knows is coming and what no one has yet been able to stop. There’s nothing more demoralizing to an opponent, and nothing more encouraging about what is possible for this team. Published .