Originally Posted by Youngbuck17:
Brown and Smith were 4th and 9th respectively in yards this year. Chase and Higgins were 17th and 20th. And that was with missing Hurts for two games. Chase and Higgins are great receivers, but I think you might be underestimating Brown and Smith.
Chase is probably the best receiver in the league right now... [Reply]
Originally Posted by Youngbuck17:
Brown and Smith were 4th and 9th respectively in yards this year. Chase and Higgins were 17th and 20th. And that was with missing Hurts for two games. Chase and Higgins are great receivers, but I think you might be underestimating Brown and Smith.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, this isn't all that different from playing the Ravens. Hurts has better weapons on the outside than Lamar has ever had but Hurts also isn't as dynamic as Lamar was at his peak. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Youngbuck17:
Brown and Smith were 4th and 9th respectively in yards this year. Chase and Higgins were 17th and 20th. And that was with missing Hurts for two games. Chase and Higgins are great receivers, but I think you might be underestimating Brown and Smith.
There’s only one ball to go around.
You’re forgetting that Tyler Boyd also put up nearly 800 yards. Hurst also caught 52 balls for 400+ yards. Chase only played 12 games and still had a 1,000+ yards.
Goedert only caught 3 more passes than Hurst, but obviously did more with those catches. Brown and Smith both played 17 games, unlike Chase. Goedert + Watkins caught 22 fewer passes than Hurst and Boyd, which left more opportunities for Smith and Brown. Smith and Brown had like 40 more targets than Chase and Higgins.
The total yardage comparison across the top two wide receivers doesn’t tell the whole story. Both duos are sensational any way you look at it. [Reply]
Originally Posted by The Franchise:
Which made zero sense as to why they were running him in the game against the 49ers.
Says to me he probably needs surgery on his labrum so it isn't gonna get better or worse and he just has to deal with it.
Also the Eagles are treating Hurts like he's a throwaway QB. I wonder if this is gonna become a thing in the NFL going forward. Team drafts young athletic QB, runs him into the ground for 4 years and when it's time to get paid they just draft another one. To basically avoid the big QB contract.. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Youngbuck17:
No doubt Mahomes is an awesome QB. But the Niners secondary is below average, which worked right into Mahome's and Reid's tendencies. Which is why Mahomes passed for over 400 yards in that game. Eagles have the top ranked secondary.
However, I will agree that the Eagles have not faced much in way of elite QB play. They have the roster to defend it, but Gannon (their DC) believes in a bend-don't-break philosophy of zone and soft coverages against the better QBs, which IMO doesn't put his best players in the best position. So in the past two years they have struggled more with the great QBs. But to be fair, who doesn't?
Top-ranked secondary is something you have to apply context to. Who have you played, and what type of passing attack did they have? That's the context that matters.
Did you have a lot of games against top 10 QBs with good weapons? (That's a no and where the schedule may be masking how dominant the Eagles' D actually was).
Buffalo had the top-ranked secondary coming into the 2021 playoffs and the Chiefs lit them up all night... because it was a soft zone-based coverage that played bend and not break and tried to rely on mistakes by the opposition or pressure by its front to work. Which had worked really well because the Bills played a lot of bad QBs/passings attacks (their entire division was full of them, so six games right there) and backup QBs.
I see some similarities to the Eagles' schedule this year. [Reply]
I love ESPN selling that the Eagles defense is dominant, their run game is dominant, 3rd down conversion all because of their playoff numbers....cmon guys they played garbage, so those numbers are fools gold. [Reply]
