How will Philly defend the pass?

[Teague31]

i don't know how impressive the eagles D really is. the only good offense they played (NY) put up like 24 points in a quarter. SF looked pretty good against them and were just shut out by the vaunted KC defense. Their corners are banged up and without kearse they will have to blitz more. no way they match up with our offense if the O-line is even average.

 

[TheSkaven]

I disagree that Philly will blitz Bledsoe relentlessly. They will play this conservative on defense and try to get pressure with their front four (which is the strength of their defense).

If you watch the two games played last year, every big play that the Eagles gave up was on a blitz. In that last game in particular, the Eagles really did dominate the game for 58 minutes and gave up three big plays that all resulted in touchdowns.

The first was the Peerless Price reception (covered by Dawkins) where Bledsoe beat the blitz and across the middle to Price for about an 80 yard gain (Barber later scored from the 1 yard line).

The second was Glenn, one on one, beats Lito Sheppard to make the score 20-14. Johnson sent the house on that play.

The third, of course, was the Roy Williams INT for a touchdown.

Then look at the first game which the Cowboys dominated. It seemed like everytime Jim Johnson gambled with the blitz, he lost.

Now, especially with Owens on this team, do you really think Jim Johnson will gamble? I think they will feign blitz, and they may use it occasionally, but I highly doubt you will see the crazy corner and safety blitzes that you were seeing in the two games last year. For all the talk about Reid's playcalling on offense and McNabb's play last year, the reason the Cowboys beat the Eagles 21-20 in Philadelphia last year was Johnson's defense being overly aggressive and giving up the big play.

Just my $0.02.. if the Cowboys do win big this weekend, I think they'll do it by living on that blitz.

 

[Ben_n_austin]

I think that Philly will try to disguise the blitz and get to Bledsoe before he can get the ball of. That's going to be Philly's base strategy, in my opinion.

I just don't think that they can get consistent enough pressure, throughout the entire game, to contain our offense sufficiently enough to win the ball game.

I gotta hand it to Philly. I didn't expect them to be this good this year.

This should be interesting.

 

[EPL0c0]

Actually their opponents are 4-11, none with more than a single win. We've played two pretty good teams, and one awful. Specifically, though, I was talking offense/defense matchups. If you're facing terrible teams, you should be doing decent defensively, at least, right?

They're not.


Thank god.



I really don't think so. Unless the pressure is inordinate, which we haven't seen all year, this one's not going to be close.

hehe...I very much welcome that correction of my horrible math )