FWIW, the pistol zone crawl was in the playbook--Kelce wraps while Seumalo pins the 1-T here in SB LVII. They also ran this a ton out of shotgun that year and in years prior with Kelce.
Through six games, the #Eagles are yet to play an above average game by EPA/drive on both sides of the ball, and they have now played a very below average one--against a Giants team which came into this game 28th on offense and 26th on defense by this same metric.
Last year, Fangio matched big personnel with base only around 40% of the time after Cooper DeJean became the NCB, but this year that's up to 63% (which is about league average).
With Nabors & Slayton both out, Giants will play a ton of 12 personnel (40% last week even w/Slayton) & a lot of twins (both WRs) to one side of field. Curious how Fangio matches (base or nickel), especially with (possibly) no Jalen Carter to eat up all those DT snaps.
No idea what to make of this but FWIW the Giants' offense has benefited a lot from penalties and both the #Eagles' and Giants' defense has been hurt a lot by them.
#Eagles attempts with… 10-15 air yards : 8.6% (29th) 15-20 air yards : 2.9% (32nd)
Everything is either short or deep outside numbers. Jalen had a few turndowns he'd like back last week, but for the most part it's been the design/structure.
#Eagles are 30th in play action rate on all dropbacks, and their only successful under center play action play of the season is still a scramble on the third play of Week 1. Throwing against zone coverage is a lot harder when you're not distorting the zone with a run threat.
Swooper! @bowulf.bsky.social & @fduffy.bsky.social closed the gap on the increasingly turkey-poor @ej-smith.bsky.social...a lot to watch for as you follow along tonight.
