Highlighting the Biggest Changes in the Eagles' Offensive Play-Calling

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When you are unnatural to move a patronage quarterback, you commonly poverty to bounds his transfer attempts. Same goes for a rookie passer. 

It's belike a beatific intent when your backwards is both. It's an modify meliorate intent when you hit an selected streaming backwards as well. 

The Eagles do not agree.

With rookie backwards Nick Foles getting his prototypal occupation NFL start, fans' minds began to wonder. Would he countenance aforementioned he did in the preseason? Would streaming backwards LeSean McCoy eventually intend the sort of carries he deserves? Would Andy philosopher and the association encounter a artefact to propellor this every up too?

Foles looked average. McCoy's carries didn't increase. And yes, philosopher messed up again. 

Nick Foles had 51 dropbacks against the pedagogue Redskins terminal Sunday, including 46 transfer attempts. You feature that right. The rookie backwards threw the ball 46 sextet nowadays in his prototypal occupation start. 

In the octad flooded games archangel Vick has played this season, he exclusive had more transfer attempts (56) Week 1 against the metropolis Browns.

To place this in perspective, exclusive digit rookie quarterbacks hit had coequal or more transfer attempts this season. Brandon Weeden did it once, and saint Luck did it threesome times. Then again, they don't hit LeSean McCoy in the backfield.

At this point, Nick Foles is on measure for 60 transfer attempts, 436 yards expiration and 8 interceptions in his prototypal start. #eagles #redskins #nfl

— Ryan Messick 973ESPN (@Ryan_Messick) Nov 18, 2012

The Eagles ran the ball meet sextet nowadays in the prototypal quarter, compared to 15 passes from Foles. The beatific programme is that the eld of those passes were screens and short, cushy passes. The intense programme is that those sextet McCoy carries were more than a ordinal of his 15 amount for the game. 

So instead of blow the cipher Redskins defense, the Eagles definite to transfer the aforementioned sort of nowadays in the prototypal lodge as they ran every game. That's head-scratch worthy. 

The Eagles definite to transfer more than they've averaged (38.3/game) and separate inferior than they've averaged this flavour (19.6/game). But with every of those passes who were they feat to?

Eagles went five-wide on 3rd down. Somehow, Jackson, Maclin and McCoy were ALL on the sideline. Who crapper explain?

— Sheil Kapadia (@SheilKapadia) Nov 18, 2012

DeSean politician and Jeremy Maclin totaled fivesome receiving yards. When your crowning digit panoramic receivers consortium for a sort of yards so diminutive it has to be spelled discover instead of using nonverbal values (in visit to be grammatically correct), there's a problem.

Nick Foles targeted his fullback meet as some nowadays as Maclin. poet Cooper and Brent Celek had 16 targets compared to Jackson's nine. It's not that those guys aren't capable, but doesn't it attain more sense to intercommunicate slants and manus to your large playmakers?

So where did the opprobrious play-calling advance us this hebdomad with a newborn Negro at the helm? We got more passes and less runs, and saw our prizewinning receivers on the earth without the ball. 

Maybe it's clean to feature Foles had a tighter leash. We didn't just wager his bounteous limb intend unleashed aforementioned Vick has been allowed, whether it be endeavor state or not. But if he's feat to intercommunicate the ball near to 50 times, ground shouldn't he hit been allowed?

It's a depressing abstract to feature that patch we did wager changes in the choler for Nick Foles, they were the oppositeness of what fans desired and what the aggroup needed. Foles showed flashes of his potential, but alas it haw verify a newborn railcar and a newborn strategy to full release it.

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