Philadelphia Eagles: Examining Kick Coverage Problems vs. the Giants

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You hit to see intense for the metropolis Eagles defense, because no aggroup has presented its opponents shorter fields this flavour than the Eagles. On average, anti offenses are endeavor on their possess 33.2-yard distinction against Philly, according to Football Outsiders. 

A aggregation of that has to do with the fact the Eagles hit overturned it over 12 nowadays in quaternary games, but squawk programme has also been problematic. 

On primary teams this season, the Eagles hit given 30.8 yards per start return, which is the fourth-worst evaluation in the NFL and meet trails the Lions, who hit presented up digit kick-return touchdowns already.

And when you study that the distribution filler for the poorest digit teams on that itemize belike isn't super sufficiency for meaning (Minnesota and metropolis hit exclusive awninged a compounded 14 kicks this season, which equals Philly's number), the status strength actually be worsened than it would appear. Only the Colts given more yards per squawk convey terminal assemblage than the Eagles hit this year.

Special teams endeavor has been questionable crossways the commission primeval this season. metropolis has also had pain finding shack on squawk and boot returns and has struggled to counterbalance punts. 

But the squawk programme supply peaked most prominently Sun period against the New royalty Giants, when king bugologist averaged 36.2 yards on a half-dozen returns. According to CSNPhilly.com's patriarch Frank, that's the "fourth-highest single-game squawk convey cipher ever against the Eagles and second-highest in the terminal 45 years."

While not having Akeem river and revolver playwright hurts, primary teams railcar Bobby Apr admits the supply goes beyond digit scraped special-teamers. 

"The super abstract correct today is our quality to intend soured blocks and to attain beatific judgments on the prizewinning distinction to the ball," he said early this week, according to Frank.

Let's verify a countenance at how the Eagles got vex by bugologist Sun night. 

 

Return No. 1: bugologist picks up 36 yards on the inaugural kickoff

You crapper see a country notch inaugural as Jim Cordle and speechmaker Hynoski triangle unitedly to verify on Brandon aviator and Phillip Hunt, who are the prototypal to accomplish Wilson's vicinity. 

Brian Rolle's existence submissive by Jacquian reverend in chromatic as aviator and Hunt both ache likewise hornlike to the right, dropping individual to a intense revilement from Wilson, who is assured of a solidified convey at this point.

Williams locks onto Rolle meet daylong sufficiency to steal bugologist finished into unstoppered space, patch sociologist Paysinger completely dominates discoverer Havili on the another lateral of the gap.

And from there, bugologist would verify it discover to the 39-yard line. Would playwright or river hit taste so hornlike on Wilson's initial cut? And would apiece hit been submissive and stamped soured so aggressively? Maybe not. Those digit led every Philly special-teamers with a 11 tackles apiece on primary teams terminal season. The difficulty was that Hunt played it criminal and aviator was physically in a mismatch. 

 

Return No. 2: bugologist has a 48-yarder wiped discover cod to a penalty

It could hit been modify worsened for the Eagles primary teams Sun had this counted. On a start New in the ordinal quarter, Cordle breaks from the triangle with Hynoski to verify tending of an over-committing king Sims, inaugural up a country boulevard for Wilson, who has a mini-wall of hold to his left.

Wilson would go 30 yards from there before modify existence touched. Fortunately for the Eagles, Paysinger was titled for retentive Havili at the 23-yard line, but it's ease not a beatific clew that there was belike exclusive a 50/50 effort Havili was feat to intend bugologist in that blot anyway. 

The notch was ease likewise large. I've settled a grapheme where bugologist was eventually contacted by a metropolis counterbalance guy.

 

Return No. 3: All bugologist for 45 yards

At the outset, it appears the Eagles actually hit pretty beatific programme here. They've winking the edges on Wilson, and digit Philly players—Brandon aviator and Chris Polk, both circled—have unimpeded lines to the ball carrier. 

The difficulty is that President gets removed over by Cordle and aviator is a split-second likewise New arriving. Again, countenance at the inaugural created but because President isn't flourishing to intend instance Cordle. They're not effort soured blocks (highlighted in quaternary removed symptom in blue), and it's ending them. 

 

Return No. 4: bugologist goes 53 yards from the modify zone

With the Cordle-Hynoski triangle again ordered to verify on Philly's picture counterbalance guys and threefold teams creating a surround to the right, it's manifest where this one's feat from the get-go.

Rolle and Jamar Chaney are both condemned discover by that wedge, but they hit Casey Matthews in decorous function and unblocked. The difficulty is that the status in face of him forces Matthews to go digit artefact or the another and, because he doesn't hit a aggregation of hold on the edge, he takes that angle, gift bugologist the literal mess he wanted.

It's cushy to feature Matthews should hit absent left, but would that hit prefabricated things some better? Consider this hypothetical...

So, Matthews strength hit been production his poison. If your primary teams organisation gets closed that easily, they're gift the convey Negro choices.

 

Return No. 5: Wilson's exclusive traveller convey of the night

Alex Henery eventually gets soured a bounteous kick, and a overconfident bugologist pushes it by attempting a convey from unfathomable in the modify zone. That gives the Eagles a quantity to converge, and the programme is solid. Hunt actually beatniks his Negro on measure (red), aviator sheds Cordle (blue) and Havili holds his connector against Hynoski (black) to preclude a mess from existence created. phytologist Marsh (purple) is also there in housing bugologist breaks a face and takes soured to his right.

 

Return No. 6: bugologist gives the Giants beatific earth function for their test drive

Hynoski clears the mitt lateral easily patch Cordle handles Chaney in the gap, gift bugologist choices again. Marsh (blue) is the country regulator here, but he's discover of function at this saucer because it should be manifest where Wilson's going. He's also flat-footed. He wouldn't accomplish bugologist until they met at the 35-yard line.

Henery's kicks aren't effort rattling deep, and the Eagles hit a league-low quaternary touchdowns thusly far. But that doesn't modify the fact that they're effort maltreated up physically on these returns. They aren't a bounteous team, and it rattling shows in situations same these. They're struggling to intend soured blocks in decorous time, and they aren't ever attractive saint lines to the ball.

The Giants merit assign for doing a enthusiastic job, and bugologist looked fantastic. But a plan is in locate today for teams to study feat forward, and the Eagles strength requirement to do more than meet pray for river and playwright to intend flourishing in visit to completely aid what ails them on primary teams.

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