Maybe the OL blocking. Was better than we thought.  2.5 seconds, Carson and an alarm needs to go off. Also from Shell’s mailbag:

ESPN tracks pass-block win rate. This measures how often pass protection held up for 2.5 seconds.The Eagles ranked seventh! I’m not going to argue that the pass protection was good — it wasn’t — but the numbers suggest the play-calling and Wentz holding onto the ball were big factors in the negative plays.

This is on Doug from Sheil  56.7% the way Ertz was playing?

 

The Eagles are an outlier here. Last year, they were in 12 personnel (one RB, two TEs, two WRs) 46 percent of the time — tops in the league, per Sportradar. League average was 19.2 percent. No other team was higher than 34.9 percent.

In Week 1, the Eagles were in 12 personnel 56.7 percent of the time. That was by far the highest percentage of any offense. No other team was higher than 33.3 percent, and league average was 18.1 percent.

Last year, their numbers out of 12 personnel were ugly. I don’t think it offers the matchup problem that some think it does. But obviously, their personnel usage will be worth monitoring all season.

53 minutes ago, BigEFly said:

Maybe the OL blocking. Was better than we thought.  2.5 seconds, Carson and an alarm needs to go off. Also from Shell’s mailbag:

ESPN tracks pass-block win rate. This measures how often pass protection held up for 2.5 seconds.The Eagles ranked seventh! I’m not going to argue that the pass protection was good — it wasn’t — but the numbers suggest the play-calling and Wentz holding onto the ball were big factors in the negative plays.

You can also look at it as Wentz avoiding sacks and moving around made the ranking look better then it was. In the end we all saw the game. He was under attack all game and we can never win a game like that. Scheme didnt help with all the vertical routes with no dump down route options. 

52 minutes ago, BigEFly said:

This is on Doug from Sheil  56.7% the way Ertz was playing?

 

The Eagles are an outlier here. Last year, they were in 12 personnel (one RB, two TEs, two WRs) 46 percent of the time — tops in the league, per Sportradar. League average was 19.2 percent. No other team was higher than 34.9 percent.

In Week 1, the Eagles were in 12 personnel 56.7 percent of the time. That was by far the highest percentage of any offense. No other team was higher than 33.3 percent, and league average was 18.1 percent.

Last year, their numbers out of 12 personnel were ugly. I don’t think it offers the matchup problem that some think it does. But obviously, their personnel usage will be worth monitoring all season.

I can understand if Doug is more comfortable having Goedert and Ertz on the field over JJAW and Hightower at this point, but what stuck out to me is Reagor is shown with 57 offensive snaps -- and they only got the ball into his hands one time?  Terrible.

Listening to Kist and Solak...

* Interestingly, they said Washington didn’t adjust much at all. They ran the same relatively basic stuff. Their biggest adjustment was going from cover 3 to quarters coverage. 

* They were critical of Doug not getting Wentz rolled out of the pocket. They also thought both Doug and Wentz were too fixated on the deep ball. One of our sacks came on a rollout where the Rodgers blocked no one. We didn’t call anything else after that. 

* They thought Driscoll and Herbig were OK. The biggest culprits were Scott and Clement in blitz pickup. 

* Wentz was too erratic on script and on time. 

7 minutes ago, Alphagrand said:

I can understand if Doug is more comfortable having Goedert and Ertz on the field over JJAW and Hightower at this point, but what stuck out to me is Reagor is shown with 57 offensive snaps -- and they only got the ball into his hands one time?  Terrible.

Yup. Get him some manufactured touches — jet sweeps and screens, touch pass out of shotgun. Get him the damn ball. 

 

13 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

Yup. Get him some manufactured touches — jet sweeps and screens, touch pass out of shotgun. Get him the damn ball. 

Yup..there was a WR screen set up to Ward with Reagor responsible for the block....Reagor whiffed on his block and the play was a dud. Reagor is s till adjusting to game speed and timing... blocking in space is harder than it looks...Why was the set up to Ward? It makes more sense to reverse the roles for now; use Reagor's natural ability with Ward's experience to make the block.

I should add from Kist and Solak...

* They’re concerned with the Rams run and screen game vs our LBs. 

* Solak later said Herbig played well, not just OK. 

* Solak said JJAW was open underneath and should have had three second half catches but that Wentz wasn’t interested in the short stuff. He did say he’s essentially used like a TE. 

 

Good news on the injured.  I wonder if Parks tries to practice this week?

Fran Duffy said the Rams played only two snaps in man coverage vs Dallas. I would not have guessed that with Ramsey. 

2 hours ago, BigEFly said:

McCown seems to relate well to helping with other players. Sitting back on the line in Texas watching the film and coaching Wentz is as much of his role as quarantine QB. 

I don't think he's going to get after Wentz though. 

Repeat after me, no exhibition games. That's why they're crazy when they talk about eliminating those games, the starters need at least one full game to get their timing down (1Q first two games, half of the third game) and young backups and bubble players need every snap they can get. This week is going to be ugly all over the league again, next week teams will finally start settling in, but young backups will struggle more this season b/c of lack of pre-season reps.

I think Wentz needs that game time more than other QBs, with his lanky body, he seems to struggle to get his mechanics down, but once in a groove, like the end of last season, he can stop thinking and just "do it."

Scott is going to need time to block, with his small margin of error his technique has to be perfect, Clement has lost it if he can't block, that's one of the things he improved in in the SB year.

I think they were trying to establish the deep ball to open up the middle of the field for the TEs, but probably should work short to deep until they have timing down with the WRs. That is, establish the short throws, and when DBs cheat, go long.

Just now, ManuManu said:

I should add from Kist and Solak...

* They’re concerned with the Rams run and screen game vs our LBs. 

* Solak later said Herbig played well, not just OK. 

* Solak said JJAW was open underneath and should have had three second half catches but that Wentz wasn’t interested in the short stuff. He did say he’s essentially used like a TE. 

I'm kind of surprised to hear that. He looked pretty bad at times to me but Solak knows way more about the game than I do. I'll take his word for it.

8 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

Fran Duffy said the Rams played only two snaps in man coverage vs Dallas. I would not have guessed that with Ramsey. 

The Rams might be the most zone heavy team. Ramsey will still press though.

I'll be working during the game again tomorrow so if you guys can erase the entire days posts again I'd appreciate it.

6 minutes ago, metal said:

I'm kind of surprised to hear that. He looked pretty bad at times to me but Solak knows way more about the game than I do. I'll take his word for it.

Everyone has different views. Ive heard so many different views from different annalists, ex players, beat writers, experts etc, lol. It all comes down to most choose the view that they believe more themselves. 

Fran said Ramsey typically lines up in the short side of field so we should see him on Ertz a decent amount, while leaving Reagor or Jackson against either a nickel corner or a safety.

If we can just protect Wentz a little...

12 minutes ago, DeathByEagle said:

Everyone has different views. Ive heard so many different views from different annalists, ex players, beat writers, experts etc, lol. It all comes down to most choose the view that they believe more themselves. 

That's fair. I I have my opinions but I'm open to changing my mind. I tend to defer to people who actually know what they are looking at. Some have issues with that but that is their problem, not mine.

3 minutes ago, metal said:

That's fair. I I have my opinions but I'm open to changing my mind. I tend to defer to people who actually know what they are looking at. Some have issues with that but that is their problem, not mine.

We'll get a good idea on Herbig this week; he will have Kelce and Johnson around him -- and probably a lot of Aaron Donald across from him.  If they can keep Donald from being a huge factor that will say a lot for Herbig.

13 hours ago, LeanMeanGM said:

I lasted about 10 minutes trying to watch that but now I feel like I need to commit 

I watched the whole thing hoping Jennifer Garner might take her clothes off. She doesn’t.

 

Movie sucks.

 

27 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

Fran said Ramsey typically lines up in the short side of field so we should see him on Ertz a decent amount, while leaving Reagor or Jackson against either a nickel corner or a safety.

If we can just protect Wentz a little...

And he could throw accurately. 

1 hour ago, ManuManu said:

Listening to Kist and Solak..

* Wentz was too erratic on script and on time. 

Watching tape wasn't necessary to come to this conclusion. Wentz was the reason we lost.