Hello again.

We’ve got some extra tools at our disposal this year, which includes access to data provider Sportradar. We’re not the type of website to go super overboard with advanced Eagles stuff, but I figure we can use this to circle back after every game and scan that first level of deeper numbers, maybe helping us to learn a little bit more about what the Birds are doing on the field.

As a disclaimer, I’m still learning how to parse all of this data and use the interface, but I’ll get better as we go along. We’ll start basic for now and then ramp it up in the coming weeks.

Let’s begin with some offensive groupings and numbers:

What you see here is a heavy reliance on 11 personnel, which is a typical offensive formation featuring one running back, one tight end, and three receivers on the field.  They used 11 personnel for 51 of their 75 snaps (68%), and threw the ball 29 times out of that formation. Compare that to 19 offensive snaps of 12 personnel, which features two tight ends, a formation from which they ran the ball 13 times and only threw it six times.

The only personnel group they used besides 11 and 12 was 13, which is a three-TE formation. That got them 25 yards on five snaps, all five of which were running plays.

Here’s a block of similar defensive data I selected and pulled:

On the left you see the various defensive alignments they showed throughout the game. You see some 4-2-5 nickel and three and five-man fronts as well, though I’d really like to dig in a little bit more and see how Sportradar defines these fronts. The Eagles don’t play a classic college 3-3-5 stack, but they go “multiple” on the defensive line and show various combinations of tackles, ends, and EDGE type of hybrid guys.

The thing that stands out across the board is that they put very little pressure on Jared Goff, just one sack out of all of those looks, and a 16.7% pressure rate while allowing a 70.6 completion percentage out of their nickel 4-2-5 deployment, which is four down linemen, two linebackers, and five defensive backs. That’s what NFL teams play more than anything in 2022.

There’s so much data here that it’s hard to know where to even start, but a couple of other interesting things I grabbed:

  • A.J. Brown: 68 snaps – 40.9% from the slot / 59.1% out wide
  • DeVonta Smith: 74 snaps – 12.5% slot / 86.1% wide
  • Quez Watkins: 47 snaps – 78% slot / 22% wide
  • Zach Pascal: 30 snaps – 76.5% slot / 5.9% in tight end spot / 17.6% wide
  • they ran for 13 first downs and caught 12 first downs, so good balance there
  • Jalen Hurts threw 18 “catchable passes”
  • Brown had a ridiculous 71 YAC yards (he’s not just a big body target man)
  • 7 explosive plays for Hurts, 3 for Miles Sanders, so 10 total on the afternoon out of 75 snaps
  • average starting field position was their own 25
  • they ran 14 offensive plays in the red zone, which amounted to 10 runs and 4 passes

If there’s anything you want me to pull, any data you’d like to see each week, let me know and I can add it to the series. Just ping me in the Facebook comments or email me at [email protected]. I’ll keep digging around here for interesting and useful information.