Well, the 49ers game sucked. I wasn’t particularly optimistic heading in, but it went about as bad as it could have. I always try to stay level-headed, but there are some consistent themes with this Eagles team that I am starting to find a little bit annoying. Let’s get into this one.

Offense

The Eagles offense is becoming a little predictable for my liking. They lined up with 11 personnel on 81% of all snaps and only used 21 personnel on 3 occasions. I don’t get it! I feel like I could write a book about this game and how the Eagles approached this one, so I’m going to try and be as concise as possible. There is going to be a lot of ‘Jalen Hurts vs. Brian Johnson – who is to blame?’ talk this week in Philadelphia. I think both had bad games. Hurts in particular, just did not see the field well at all. I think it’s becoming clear as the season goes on that Hurts throws certain concepts well, and seems to trust some players over others. If this is Dallas Goedert on the corner route, I think he throws it. Despite saying that, you can’t make excuses for Hurts on some of these plays. This is just a straight-up miss and it should be quite a simple read too because he is staring at the safety who is coming downhill!

Eagles Offense All22 vs. 49ers.

Lots to moan about in this game. I have some issues with the game plan, but you can’t deny Hurts didn’t play well at all. 1st and 10 and he’s reading the safety flying downhill. This ball has to go to the TE on the corner route, he’s wide open. pic.twitter.com/N5JRTT1RLQ

What would the Eagles do without Crash (deep out and short in)? It’s their favorite passing concept this season and AJ Brown is feasting against man coverage on this short in-route. Look how much more decisive Hurts is on concepts where he is comfortable. He can be really decisive at times, but overall in this game, he looked a little bit lost too often.

I’m not sure any other Eagles concept had any other real success except for Crash. They must run it 5-10 times a game, and it feels pretty much unstoppable when AJ Brown is facing one-on-one man coverage. You can tell how much more decisive Hurts is when it’s a concept he’s… pic.twitter.com/3x6heSmoxI

This is a call I really liked, and I hope we see it again. I think in the future, if teams start to commit to the 4 receiver side, Hurts can start to keep this ball and choose to run. This is the type of play I feel like the Eagles only run on 3rd down and I’m not sure why we don’t see more designs like this on 1st and 10. I think it goes back to the issue of being ‘obsessed’ with explosive plays, rather than just picking up 5 or 6 yards on 1st and 10. The 49ers played a lot of two-high coverage and were really focused on stopping any throws over their heads, so the Eagles should have taken the easy yards rather than attempting to look for the deep shot on early downs.

I love this play. I hope we see this look again. Hurts could keep this and I think he’d have a chance of running for it with Kelce pulling. The Eagles throw the simple screen on this occasion, and it works, but I like the design with Hurts having the option to run too pic.twitter.com/U4fFvfh0hz