Eagles 24, Commies 8

This should be a fun game to break down. We can do it all week and it won’t get old. When you sack Carson Wentz nine times, put up 24 first-half points, and discover that you actually have two guys that are WR1, then it’s worth reliving week 3 over and over and over again.

Baldy was actually doing a radio call for one of the games this weekend, so his breakdown offerings are a little light, but luckily he graced us with a two-segment Eagles/Commanders breakdown:

“The Commanders have a seven-man pass protection, that doesn’t do any good… they treated Carson like they don’t like him”

That second play specifically is nice to analyze because they gave us a back-angle replay where we were able to see the defensive line movements. As Baldy mentions, Haason Reddick rushes from the left side and Brandon Graham drops into coverage on the other side, but pre-snap, the deployment looks like this:

This a good example of the “overhang” we were talking about early in the year and in the preseason, a configuration where the Eagles use Jordan Davis, Fletcher Cox, and Javon Hargrave at the same time. Davis is next to the center as a 1 technique. Cox is a 3 technique off the guard’s outside shoulder, and Hargrave is in the same spot on the other side. You then walk your EDGE guys up to the line and show five bodies, from which you can blitz one, both, drop one into coverage, etc. It’s a good run-stopping alignment with flexibility, but they were able to get to Carson all day long showing this anyway, so go figure.

“This five up front were just awesome.”

Yeah, low-key underrated storyline from Sunday is that Jalen Hurts wasn’t doing a lot of scrambling. Wasn’t leaving the pocket and didn’t have to use his feet too much because he was getting ample protection and time to launch some bombs. It also helps that you have two bona fide stud receivers downfield, or three if you wanna count Quez Watkins, so it gives the QB confidence to just chuck it if you know you have guys that can take the top off and/or go up and attack the ball in the air. These guys attack the football like Jim Rome attacks a four-syllable word. In-credible. Ri-diculous. Pre-nuptial. Count Choc-ula.

Good morning and go Birds.