You learn something new every day.
Today Eagles offensive coordinator Mike Groh divulged a small detail for us. A minor nugget, if you will.
The Wendell Smallwood wildcat play from Sunday’s win has a special name:
Q. Who came up with the “fake” Philly Special? (Bo Wulf)
MIKE GROH: It came out of the run division, yeah. I wasn’t in the run division meeting, but it came out of the run division meeting, yeah.
Q. What is it called? (Jimmy Kempski)
MIKE GROH: (laughs) Oh, it’s called London Special, yeah. We put it in in London.
Pretty cool. That means Duce Staley and his guys came up with it. I guess they were going to use it against the Jaguars but never did.
I Imagine the conversation on Sunday went something like this:
Wendell Smallwood: “You want London London?”
Doug Pederson: “Yeah, let’s do it.”
They ran it on the two-point conversion that came up just short on Sunday night, after the jump:
Super close.
Some people are convinced that Smallwood got the ball over the line, but the NFL doesn’t use goal line technology:
Time’s yours.