Saw this and thought it was worth sharing:
That basically means the Eagles have two CB1s. Hell of a job from Howie Roseman to go out and get James Bradberry after Dave Gettleman screwed up the Giants’ salary cap. The numbers above also point to Jonathan Gannon’s scheme being successful, the idea of keeping everything in front of you and not getting beat deep.
PFF and Sport Radar share data, so we can look a little further and find that:
*Burn yards are passing yards allowed by a player when they are the defender. If two or more guys are in coverage, like a corner and a safety, they both get docked the yardage on a completed pass. Both of those numbers are ridiculously low for CB1 and CB2.
But yeah, even just going one level below the surface, both guys are playing at a ridiculously high level. They break up passes, don’t commit penalties, and limit the damage when they do allow completions. It’ll be interesting to see what the Birds do with Bradberry, who is a pending free agent, so let’s try to enjoy the best combination cornerback play we’ve seen in midnight green since Lito Sheppard and Sheldon Brown, or maybe that 2008 year when Asante Samuel was showing us some gangsta shit.