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On Sunday, three NFL teams ran 53 plays of their complete recreation. Carolina ran 50.
The Eagles ran fifty three plays in the first half alone on Monday night time.
Tempo alone does not make an offense harmful. Some groups believed that after they copied the Patriots’ uptempo type. Jacksonville used some no-huddle appears to be like within the preseason and Week 1, however regardless of how fast the Jaguars play on offense they won’t be any good.
But the Eagles, at the least for Week 1, have been quick, fun and nice.
We not less than have to permit for the possibility Eagles coach Chip Kelly is a genius. Monday evening was only one recreation, and now the NFL can see if it might figure out Philadelphia’s new offense. But for most of the Eagles’ 33-27 win that wasn’t as close as the ultimate score indicated, the Redskins looked like they have been using a 2013 defense against an offense from 2020. The same ideas that made Kelly a top college coach at Oregon – breakneck pace (which the Patriots copied), spreading the sector, using numerous zone-blocking concepts, learn-option performs and consistently attacking a defense the place it is out-manned based mostly on its pre-snap formation – labored better than anybody may have figured in Kelly’s NFL debut.
The Eagles’ offense wasn’t outstanding because it was quick. It was stunning to watch.
The NFL appears to be changing a bit. It has been a conservative league for a long time. The hiring of Kelly, who had never held a job increased than New Hampshire’s offensive coordinator as of 2006 and had zero NFL experience before getting the Eagles job, was a daring and unusual transfer. That is how we got here to have a NFL workforce splitting its offensive tackles out by the receivers on one play.
Oh sure, that play. Tackles Jason Peters and Lane Johnson cut up out wide like receivers, giving the Eagles a 3-man line. Loopy, proper? So the Eagles ran straight ahead and LeSean McCoy gained 10 yards behind his three linemen.
A few years ago this would have been scoffed at within the NFL. Stupid school tips. On Monday night, it confounded the Redskins.
(Getty Photos) You need personnel to tug this off. Kelly wasn’t on the sphere to realize any of the Eagles’ yards. Quarterback Michael Vick was very sharp, especially throwing to DeSean Jackson. McCoy had an important evening. Vick had a hundred ninety yards and two touchdowns, Jackson had 104 yards and a touchdown on seven catches and McCoy had one hundred fifteen yards on 20 carries.. all in the first half. Philadelphia had 322 yards on its forty two first-half plays. Kelly can feel fairly good utilizing his whole playbook, realizing his quarterback and tailback are so exhausting to tackle in house.
But this was Kelly’s evening to shine. The college coach together with his international (to the NFL) concepts appeared like a prescient rent. It felt like we have been watching a shifting dynamic within the league. And possibly by the end of the year, defensive coordinators will have all the answers and what we noticed Philadelphia do to Washington in the season opener will seem like a fluke. Even within the second half on Monday, the Redskins slowly seemed to be figuring it out a bit as they acquired again within the recreation. And perhaps dashing up the game affected the Eagles’ defense a bit within the second half, as a result of it appeared a bit winded as the Washington offense acquired moving.
We’ll get the answers to all of that down the street. For one night time, this highly anticipated Chip Kelly offense sure was plenty of fun to observe.
Chip Kelly’s debut a startling success as the Eagles speed right by the Redskins
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