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Brett Toth Played a Great Game Against the Giants
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Amid the hemming and hawing about A.J. Brown and Kevin Patullo, and whether the Eagles were a running or passing team, one of the legitimate concerns was underperformance from the offensive line. This is a unit that has historically been one of the NFL’s best, yet hadn’t played up-to-standard football through seven games. Landon Dickerson wasn’t fully healthy, Tyler Steen was settling in as a starter, and Cam Jurgens and Lane Johnson were and still are battling injures.
That’s resulted in calls for guys like Fred Johnson and Brett Toth, and the latter played a great game on Sunday, especially getting out and run blocking in space, highlighted in a couple of clips here:
It really seemed like Patullo and run game coordinator Jeff Stoutland reached a little deeper into the bag in this game. You had guys pulling and moving constantly. There was a push pass to Xavier Gipson and a short screen for Saquon Barkley. They put Jalen Hurts under center and mixed up their looks. More than once, you saw shades of prime Jason Kelce getting to the next level and just clobbering some poor linebacker or safety or corner in the open field.
Great stuff overall from swing lineman Toth, stuff that Jurgens should also be able to excel at when he’s back and healthy. He was, after all, handpicked by the organization, with Kelce’s help, as Kelce’s replacement. So let the guys do what they do best. Move the guards and the center and switch up these blocking schemes and make it less predictable for the defense. This is a Giants front that wasn’t amazing against the run coming in, but held the Eagles to 73 yards on 20 carries not long ago on Thursday Night Football.
If the offensive line keeps this form going, watch out.
Kevin has been writing about Philadelphia sports since 2009. He spent seven years in the CBS 3 sports department and started with the Union during the team's 2010 inaugural season. He went to the academic powerhouses of Boyertown High School and West Virginia University. email - k.kinkead@sportradar.com