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OFFENSE:
a violation or breaking of a social or moral rule; transgression; sin.a transgression of the law; misdemeanor.the act of offending or displeasing.- the act of attacking; attack or assault
OUR run game is built largely on deception. We rely heavily on sweeps, and stretches, and cutbacks runs. What we don’t specialize in is attacking what is directly in front of us. We don’t employ our Offensive Line offensively enough. We’re relying on people chasing us to tire themselves out, instead of beating on them and THEN making them chase us to tire themselves out. Our O-line excels at moving the point of attack and playing in space, but doesn’t really do to well at re-establishing the line of scrimmage. This is by the way, not just true of our back-ups, but also our starters. We don’t have any maulers on our interior line.
Adding to that is our constant rapid-fire approach. The result is that RB LeSean McCoy looks so tired out there that people are asking if he’s injured. One long-time EAGLES fan and frequent poster on this website, joked that McCoy must have stopped using his steroids. Keep in mind: While our opponents have to deal with our rapid pace only once or twice a year, our players have to do it EVERY WEEK. And it’s plainly and obviously taking a toll.
Lastly, and here’s the most important one folks: In this Spread, QB Nick Foles is not an Option. Last year the system was still new and Michael Vick showed teams just how dangerous a running QB could be under Chip Kelly’s system.
Even after Vick went down, because of what the EAGLES had shown, opponents were fearful of Foles now coming out the back door. At least at first. Consider that in 10 starts and on 57 carries last year, Foles only produced 6 double-digit runs (12, 14, 16, 20, 21, and 10 yards), each in a separate game. Worse yet those 6 runs represented 93 of his 221 total rushing yards, (leaving a remaining 51 carries for 128 yards and 2.5 per carry).
Seeing Foles was no threat as a runner, teams stopped guarding the back door, to pay more attention to McCoy coming out the front door. Since then it seems that teams have made the decision to “Just let Foles run” and so far he hasn’t made anyone pay. (His longest run of the year so far was 14 yards, on a day where he finished with only 13.) The upshot here is the extra attention paid to McCoy has effectively shut down this team’s run game. We can’t rely on deception at this point, because Foles as a runner is a poor hand to bluff with.
It’s a three-headed monster, but it’s essentially ONE problem: We rely on smoke and mirrors too much. Running the ball isn’t easy, but it is simple.
Tomorrow I’ll get into how we could fix this, and get it done as soon as Sunday.
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There is a pass option to the zone read. If the run game kicks in (I think the two young guys will play better with more experience) the fake to a pass to the TE is a viable option. It would gain more yards than any running QB would and keep the linebackers from crashing down onto McCoy. McCoy is missing his lead blocker right now. Kelce is so quick he’s often out leading the way on many of these blocks. He’s not there and Molk isn’t close to his caliber. That’s why McCoy needs to focus on getting what he can. He needs to take the 3-4 yard run and make defenses focus enough on him to open things up for Ertz in the play action pass. Somebody needs to get to Foles and start coaching him. His footwork is out of alignment. That’s why his accuracy is suffering so much. Ertz is open nearly every play he’s in there, but Foles keeps missing the target. I think he’s worried about the inside pressure so he’s afraid to step into his throws. All in all I’ve seen little (other than the corners) that can’t be fixed. I will state that Chip Kelly the “genius” should be correcting these issues. Now that everybody’s supposedly “buying in” it shouldn’t take this long to correct the issues.
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I bet you that picture is from last year. Because he looks pumped up in it. Beast what year was this picture from?
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LMAO!!! I picked this pick SPECIFICALLY with you in mind.
I’m can’t say for sure what year it’s from, but when I Googled “LeSean McCoy” +”2014″, this is one of the images that came up. Also it’s from a website that has it attached to a story from October 5th.
It may very well even be a stocked picture they got from last year.
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IDK. If this is to scale am I seeing things or is this a bigger McCoy?
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His arms look buff, but I haven’t been looking at his build, so I can’t really say for sure.
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Nothing surprises me with performance enhancement drugs. So many sports are littered with them. Even horses are given roids in horse racing. Does anyone really know the validity of NFL testing. They have to turn a blind eye to certain things or the game would change.
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Chip adjusted his offense and it benefitted his running back and his patchwork offensive line. It’s good to see a coach be willing to adjust what he does for the sake of improving the team. I’ve been so used to seeing the opposite for so long I’m almost not sure how to react to it.
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He did adjust and McCoy looked better but Im not ready to change my opinion here on this matter. But Mcoy did hit holes faster. Its a long season and you have to have stars at the end of the year. Could have been holding back early on. I wont venture to guess until I see a string of games.
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I think the system, the injuries, and the defenses caused McCoy troubles. There’s also the forgotten turf toe Shady suffered in the preseason. The Eagles aren’t reporting it, but turf toe can last all season.
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Yeah, they called it a minor case of turf toe. There is no such thing.
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I think it has been bothering him. He’s not complaining about it, and despite all of that he’s still like 5th or 6th in the league in rushing. This will be a good week off for him.
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