Eagles: Darius Slay breaks down what happened on critical play
The Philadelphia Eagles imploded in the second half of the Super Bowl. Sure, it was a holding call, but let's please not be that fan base or that team. They lost, but not because of that. There were so many other plays and reasons this team lost. The biggest one in my opinion was the […]
The Philadelphia Eagles imploded in the second half of the Super Bowl. Sure, it was a holding call, but let's please not be that fan base or that team. They lost, but not because of that. There were so many other plays and reasons this team lost.
The biggest one in my opinion was the defense, as they continually let the Chiefs score in the second half. Kansas City scored every possession of the second half, and Mahomes and company were just going bonkers.
But, if you remember as well as I do, there were two plays in particular that the defense did that really just took the air out of the building for the Eagles and their fan base. Sure, the punt return was bad, but that was on the special teams.
The two plays I'm talking about were on the defense. Darius Slay, the All-Pro cornerback, broke it down perfectly on his show.
"The first half I felt like a complete team," Slay said. "We played a good game, not a great, because we still left plays out there, but a good game. Come second half, they came out there and answered with a whole different type of game plan. They came out just doing what they do best as we were scheming for the crossers, the deep sevens, they weren't doing it really anymore. They're more like running the ball a lot of mixed directions, getting back to their traditional ball.
"That's why Andy Reid is one of the greatest coaches of all time because he understood that early, you could tell they watch film heavily. We played a lot of men in the red zone, so we're trying to rotate the coverage to beat him to the flat guys were hitting us with the return route, getting us out leverage, and beating us back across the ball. They did it twice and that's just us on the back end, got to be way more detail, so you got to tip your hat off to Andy Reid and the coaching staff man, that's just brilliant ball."
If you still don't know based on the way Slay broke it all down, I have a few words that will easily help you remember. Wide open touchdowns on the same exact play.
The first one was to Kadarius Toney, who ran exactly what Slay said, and all the motion confused the defense and allowed Toney to make a great cut to the flat and be just wide open.
Then they flipped the play to the left side of the field and did the same exact thing but with the rookie Skyy Moore. Something that just shouldn't happen.
Slay gave the Chiefs credit though, and fans should too. They had one hell of a game plan, and it worked. Slay knows it too.
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