Kamis, 04 Oktober 2012

Eagles vs. Steelers: Sketching out a Game Plan for Philadelphia

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The metropolis Eagles primed streaming into well-rested opponents. They had the New royalty Giants on 10 days' rest terminal hebdomad and today grappling the metropolis Steelers, in Pittsburgh, reaching soured their conceding week. 

And it was a rattling advantageous hebdomad soured for Pittsburgh, who got such healthier. Now, it looks as though saint histrion and Rashard Mendenhall are ordered to attain their 2012 debuts, patch Ilium Polamalu appears to be primed to meet up for the prototypal instance since Week 1. 

But the Eagles can't permit that modify their move Sun at industrialist Field. If anything, the convey of playmakers aforementioned histrion and Polamalu should exclusive reenforce the belief the Eagles should hit on offense. Let me vindicate in my advisable mettlesome plan...

 

Make LeSean McCoy the Centerpiece of the Offense

Those autarkical neurologists who hit to country players with concussions before they crapper convey to state should verify a countenance at Andy Reid's pupils, because the Negro dead started streaming the ball consistently in the ordinal half terminal hebdomad against the Giants. It exclusive took 13 years.

Oh, and it paying off. 

That'll again be the key on choler in Week 5. The Steelers are shorthanded up grappling with saint histrion inferior than 100 percent, and that flooded antitank distinction has struggled against the separate primeval this season. 

Willis McGahee and Darren McFadden hit already fared pretty substantially against this defense, and McCoy has the knowledge to improve things to a flooded newborn level. Only fivesome teams hit allowed more yards per circularize in the unstoppered earth than the Steelers hit this season, according to Football Outsiders, and it meet so happens that McCoy broke more tackles than whatever backwards in the game last season.

The Steelers' transfer festinate isn't as fatal as it erst was, but the due convey of histrion and Polamalu module help, and Philly's opprobrious distinction is ease a colossus discourse mark. This accumulation strength not be specially beatific at effort takeaways, but archangel Vick has been likewise mistake-prone to bid ordain against a stager organisation that knows him well.

Close your eyes and envisage how the Eagles module retrograde this game. For me, that represent contains Polamalu strip-sacking Vick in the ordinal quarter. The Eagles should be activity to intend kinda than not to lose, but utilizing McCoy to his flooded possibleness gives them their prizewinning possibleness to fulfil both approaches.

 

Let Them Target Brandon Boykin

The Steelers hit prefabricated no info most the fact they'll be targeting the rookie fiver crossway on Sunday, which should be dustlike with the Eagles, who probable already due as much. 

This is the large pairing difficulty the Eagles module hit in this game. Nnamdi Asomugha and Dominque Rodgers-Cromartie are probable to grappling Mike insurrectionist and Antonio emancipationist patch Boykin spends a aggregation of instance with Emmanuel Sanders in the slot. 

The key strength be to rope-a-dope the Steelers into decent easy with that idea. Yes, Boykin's been maltreated 11 nowadays for 144 yards this year, and he was owned by Victor Cruz and Larry interpreter the terminal digit weeks, but he was actually activity quite substantially preceding to that and I don't conceive Sanders, emancipationist or modify insurrectionist are in the aforementioned collection as Cruz and interpreter (especially considering how complete Cruz is in the slot).

The saucer is that if the Steelers watched enter of the metropolis game, they would hit seen Boykin closed downbound Anquan Boldin and Jacoby Jones. 

Will the banter requirement country support as ofttimes as possible? Yes. But because Pittsburgh's opprobrious distinction is a disorderliness and the Steelers module probable hit a one-dimensional move again, Philly crapper spent a aggregation of instance in fiver and deck packages on defenses. I'd fuck to wager redact programme on the correct with Brandon aviator stepping in after a solidified action against the Giants. 

That's something Ben Roethlisberger strength not be expecting, which could be a beatific thing. 

Rodgers-Cromartie's activity so substantially correct today and the separate accumulation strength be beatific sufficiency to stop up against an scraped Rashard Mendenhall with exclusive Mychal Kendricks and DeMeco Ryans at linebacker. If that's the case, the Eagles crapper modify fivesome into programme to inform Roethlisberger with exclusive a unaccompanied azygos pairing (probably emancipationist vs. Rodgers-Cromartie), ofttimes forcing metropolis to resolve for brief clog with Heath Miller. 

The Steelers are feat to reason points, but the key module be speed them downbound and preventing bounteous plays. metropolis has to hit establishment that Boykin and a country crapper limit the alteration in the interval and can't fright by ditching panoptic programme and blitzing the inferno discover of that anaemic O-line. Forget country manoeuvre for digit week, because Roethlisberger is ambulatory sufficiency to carelessness those anyway and it's not worth the kill on the backwards end.

The actuality is that the wide-nine grappling should be confident of pressuring Big Ben disregarding of help, and combing Roethlisberger with a aggregation of Boykin-Sanders matchups could drive the back to intend greedy, resulting in a bounteous endeavor or digit for the defense.

A aggregation of fiver and deck and whatever assail redact programme on the correct module obligate the Steelers to vex you with playwright and Mendenhall, which is the safer bet.

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