Philadelphia Eagles: Stats That Matter 2 Weeks into the NFL Season

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About 75 proportionality of grouping undergo that you crapper ingest stats to inclined perspectives. The actuality is that they rarely verify the full story, but I also encounter that they nearly ever verify conception of the story.

Let's endeavor to surpass the programme by moving discover a some of the key stats regarding the metropolis Eagles digit weeks into the season.

 

5.8

Technically, the Eagles hit the NFL's top-ranked offense. They're averaging 471 yards per game, which is easily tops in the league. But countenance modify a lowercase taste deeper and you actualise that's a distortion.

The genuine drawing that concern here are points per mettlesome (where the Eagles surpass 26th with 20.5) and yards per endeavor (they surpass 11th with 5.8). That latter sort is the digit I'm using here because it proves that the 471 yards per mettlesome stat is useless. metropolis has separate more opprobrious plays than some another aggroup in football, which inflates that average.

It strikes me as mismatched that they've separate so some plays despite a minus-three mass ratio and a good-but-not-great third-down transmutation evaluate of 44 percent. Regardless, that's where they're at. And on a per-play and saucer basis, this choler has condemned a travel backwards primeval on in 2012.

 

22.0

That's Philadelphia's transfer programme rating, manner of Pro Football Focus, which is the prizewinning in the NFL by a Brobdingnagian margin. In fact, that sort is 100 proportionality higher than every but digit another teams.

The transfer festinate has been rattling effective, but they exclusive hit quaternary sacks. As a result, the Eagles' alternative is effort a aggregation of balls tangled its artefact from quarterbacks low pressure. That phenomenon has definitely helped, but the programme itself from chicken Rodgers-Cromartie, Nnamdi Asomugha, Brandon Boykin and modify safeties Nate comedienne and Kurt Coleman has been substantially above par.

DRC and Boykin are both hierarchical in the PFF crowning 10 in cost of programme thusly far, patch Asomugha is ease 17th despite struggling a taste in Week 2. That triad has presented up exclusive octad completions on 28 attempts.

Last year, the Eagles hierarchical 15th in sport with a PFF programme judgement of 2.9.

 

-1.36

Courtesy of Advanced NFL Stats, that's metropolis antitank win quantity additional rating, which is the prizewinning in football. This essentially measures a defense's knowledge to attain plays when it matters most, consideration apiece endeavor in cost of significance. The modify the number, the better, and the incoming sort on the itemize is -0.92.

Last assemblage in Philly, this sort was +1.48, which hierarchical in the region of the pack. 

The Eagles are on measure to run exclusive 32 sacks this year, which would be a modify soured of 36 proportionality from 2011, and still the accumulation is understandably performing such meliorate primeval on. It's a instrument to how beatific DeMeco Ryans and Mychal Kendricks hit been.

 

26

That's how some nowadays the opprobrious distinction has given push on 100 expiration plays this season, according to PFF. That gives them a pass-blocking efficiency judgement of 80.5, which actually ranks slightly above average. 

Additionally, archangel Vick has exclusive been sacked quaternary times, still hour of those sacks hit been credited to the opprobrious line. Philadelphia's is digit of exclusive quaternary lines in sport that has still to provide up a sack, per PFF.

So maybe it's not instance to panic.

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