Former Eagles' player breaks down critical play vs. Saints
The Philadelphia Eagles lost their first back-to-back game this season as the New Orleans Saints came into town and made it look easy. The Saints have not been a good team this season, but based on the way they played, you wouldn't know that. Or, maybe the Eagles just played that badly. Either way, something […]
The Philadelphia Eagles lost their first back-to-back game this season as the New Orleans Saints came into town and made it look easy.
The Saints have not been a good team this season, but based on the way they played, you wouldn't know that. Or, maybe the Eagles just played that badly. Either way, something has to change before the postseason starts.
It's the simple stuff, too, like the game-changing pick-six by Marshon Lattimore. We have all heard A.J. Brown say what happens, but do we know why the coverage was what it was, or the reason things went the way they went?
The Eagles haven't played this badly all season. This game was by far their worst, and one play showed that as the Saints read them like a book.
One former Eagles player, Emmanuel Acho, broke down the play, and why it was so bad for the Eagles.
Acho took it to Twitter to show how much the Eagles miss Hurts by saying:
"Jalen Hurts’ absence on the Eagles is becoming glaringly evident. There’s just no way he would make this game-ending mistake."
Take a look at Acho breaking down the film on this sloppy play by Gardner Minshew, A.J. Brown, and the Eagles' offense.
Acho knows what he is talking about, as he was a linebacker for the Eagles for two years from 2013-2014. He now works for ESPN breaking down the NFL, as he did in this video.
Acho brings a perspective of a guy who played defense, so he can show what Saints' Lattimore was thinking at that moment, what he saw, and why he did what he did.
The former linebacker showed two different clips, the one that changed the entire game, and one prior to that play where Brown ended up getting the upper hand on Lattimore on the same play.
The Eagles can't get away with doing that, not against a guy like Lattimore that has been doing this for a while. These are the small things that the Eagles need to fix before the playoffs start.
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