Yahoo Sports NFL analyst Nate Tice and NFL writer Charles McDonald look ahead to Sunday’s showdown between Philadelphia and a surprising 2-0 New Orleans team. Hear the full conversation on “Football 301” – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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Saints offense versus the Eagles defense.
What are you keeping an eye on when you’re watching the side of the ball?
Is someone gonna make Clint Kubiak use his brain?
Like, because honestly, like to me the run game stuff is more sustainable than the past game stuff through two weeks.
I don’t know what happened to, to Zimmer last week, but they just let them have the middle of the field like the entire game, Clint Kubiak in the passing game is not reinventing the wheel here.
They just haven’t been challenged really yet to his credit.
He’s not overthinking this.
You know, if you, if you’re just gonna keep letting my receivers get wide open and catch the ball in stride across the field with no one in front of them to tackle them, well, then, yeah, I’m gonna, I’m gonna keep calling that play.
I don’t know if the Eagles are that defense to like make that happen.
Um, maybe Quinon Mitchell can be that guy, the rest of them.
I don’t really know.
Um, but the run game stuff, I think it definitely repeatable like fag has been pretty good in the run game, their interior has been absolutely dynamite.
Kamara looks juicy and uh and healthy again.
So I, I, I’m, I’m interested to see just what the past game looks like.
Really?
Because to me that’s just like someone’s gonna slow this down eventually.
And then what’s your counters off of that when you get there?
No, that, that’s the best point.
That’s always the preferred game script against a, I’ll say a Shanahan offense but a Kak offense, same thing, same tree.
Uh but when you’re watching this, these, yeah, you want to get them into passing downs, you want to get Derek Carr into passing downs because you also want to get this offensive line into passing downs when they don’t have the training wheels.
I shouldn’t say training wheels, but the buffers of chip help uh moving the pocket with play action of getting the defensive line or I’m sorry, the off ball linebackers to move up with the play action or anything like that, shifting everything, getting all these guys going every, every which way when you drop back, very much more straight, very much a pass rush that can just tee off on you uh if they feel that way.
So that’s, that’s it.
It’s not, they’re not gonna get those favorable game scripts.
They’re not gonna play the Panthers in week one, every week.
They did get after the Cowboys and you gotta give them credit, but it was, you know, not every screen’s gonna go 75 yards and not, you know, not every Rashi she’s pretty damn good, but not every deep ball is gonna get completed like that and go to the house.
So everything you just said there is the problem with all of it though.
Can the Eagles run defense even stop this run offense?
Like I, I want to say, oh, yeah.
Yeah.
No, it’s good.
It’s like, yeah, they, they’re, they’re gonna give him the passing down.
This defense is more talented.
This is the worst run defense so far.