After watching the game, I noticed a few interesting things:
1) Phillys ground game built up speed the entire day. The later into the game we got, the more effective it was.
2) Phillys DL seemed more energized later in the game
3) Commentator said that "This years TC was the hardest in Eagles history since Andy Reid's 1st year here"
4) Gaffney couldn't handle the difficult workouts of the Eagles and got cut
5) Eagles have 2 entirely different DLs
So what does all this mean? Well, our team was exhausted after the game. you could tlel by the way our D couldn't stop the Philly ball control during the final 9 minutes of the 4th quarter. Could it be from conditioning? Maybe. Gaffney's trouble in Philly and his success during TCs here are intresting to me. I think Philly's depth also helped
The next thing I noticed that was of particular interest was that the Eagles have 2 DLs. Maybe I am noticing this wrong, but he didn't substitute individual players. He substituted the entire DL at a time. In this way, he got a fresh set of legs, while still building line chemistry. This makes the moving of Weaver and Williams around even more concerning for me. Johnson and Reid are both amazing coaches, and they feel that a good DL should play together. So much so that they substitute out their 1st string DL for their 2nd stringers.
1) Phillys ground game built up speed the entire day. The later into the game we got, the more effective it was.
2) Phillys DL seemed more energized later in the game
3) Commentator said that "This years TC was the hardest in Eagles history since Andy Reid's 1st year here"
4) Gaffney couldn't handle the difficult workouts of the Eagles and got cut
5) Eagles have 2 entirely different DLs
So what does all this mean? Well, our team was exhausted after the game. you could tlel by the way our D couldn't stop the Philly ball control during the final 9 minutes of the 4th quarter. Could it be from conditioning? Maybe. Gaffney's trouble in Philly and his success during TCs here are intresting to me. I think Philly's depth also helped
The next thing I noticed that was of particular interest was that the Eagles have 2 DLs. Maybe I am noticing this wrong, but he didn't substitute individual players. He substituted the entire DL at a time. In this way, he got a fresh set of legs, while still building line chemistry. This makes the moving of Weaver and Williams around even more concerning for me. Johnson and Reid are both amazing coaches, and they feel that a good DL should play together. So much so that they substitute out their 1st string DL for their 2nd stringers.