Eagles

Posidelphia: Bryce Huff Played a Good Game

By Kevin Kinkead

Published: Oct 14th, 2024 · 11:16 AM EDT

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Pagan will go to war with the Nick Sirianni stuff. I’ll handle everything else, like Bryce Huff getting a half sack against the Browns and appearing in the box score for the third time this year. He had two tackles, one for a loss, and played 31 snaps, which amounted to a season-high 54% –

Nice rush rep by Bryce Huff + a good twist from Zack Baun and Jalen Carter = a sack#NFLMath pic.twitter.com/NUST05TFhx

— Shane Haff (@ShaneHaffNFL) October 13, 2024

You may have seen the chatter on social or some other sites about Huff getting down in a four-point stance. It’s been going on for a few weeks now but I think Baldy was the guy who opened that conversation up, going through his Jets tape and noticing that when you let the guy get down and explode like a sprinter that he’s much more effective as a pass rusher. It also helped that the Browns stink and the Eagles put them in a number of obvious passing downs.

But yeah, you see the difference here:

.@Eagles @Bryce55H is not an outside linebacker. Put him in a 4 point stance and let him TAKE OFF! I think if they use him correctly you would see his pressures and production soar. #BaldysBreakdowns pic.twitter.com/sRcwDoPDLu

— Brian Baldinger (@BaldyNFL) September 30, 2024

You do ask yourself, however, why you’re paying a guy $51 million to do one thing. Same thing with Jordan Davis, who played 21 snaps in this game. You have a first round draft pick who is a run stuffer playing less than 50% of the snaps, and then paid a guy who so far has only shown flourishes when allowed to get off from a four-point stance in some wide-9, Jason Babin-looking alignment on obvious passing downs. Huff still needs to learn how to play the run and the defensive coordinator still needs to find the right balance between these four-man and five-man fronts where tweeners like Nolan Smith are standing up and/or dropping into shallow coverage. There’s a lot of work to be done on that side of the ball, even though they did a good job in this game (just three field goals allowed) and down in New Orleans. And Cooper DeJean is worth a separate article entirely. With the defense, the glass is slightly-half-full at this point.