When a chunk of your team’s talent is missing, including the starting quarterback, game plans must adjust to put players in the best position to win...
(Perhaps the Eagles will be attacked with simple but working principals and not gambling forced passes.)
The best way to control the clock is to run the ball. We all know the
Cowboys rank dead last in nearly every rushing metric recorded. The way they have been doing things in the run game hasn’t worked, but that doesn’t mean they can’t adjust. Philadelphia has two monsters in the middle: Jalen Carter and Jordan Davis. The tandem has helped the Eagles’ defense rank fifth this year at just 101.1 rushing yards allowed per game. Trying to get a hat on a hat won’t work. Carter and Davis are too dominant to be blocked one-on-one. They need to be clever and change their patterns for running the ball. Combo blocks (double-teaming a
defensive tackle), traps, and misdirection with a lead blocker can help open up lanes.
Scheme the playmakers open...The need to cater for Rush will lead to a simpler offense, and will open up the opportunity for WR CeeDee Lamb and TE Jake Ferguson to have a larger impact. McCarthy needs to send Lamb in motion, but not just pre-snap motion. Have him sprinting across the formation at the snap to create the separation needed to get him the football. Lamb is one of the best players in the NFL in YAC (yards after catch) opportunities. Getting Lamb into the open field and away from the tight coverage of rookie sensation Quinyon Mitchell and veteran Darius Slay will be key to moving the football. As for Jake Ferguson, McCarthy needs to work him in the middle of the field to put pressure on the linebackers and safeties. Getting the ball in Ferguson’s hands quickly and in space allows him to use his incredible run after catch abilities to move the chains.
Slow down
Eagles RB Saquon Barkley. Containment must be maintained.
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