martedì 9 dicembre 2014

NFL: Philadelphia Eagles 14 Seattle Seahawks 24 recap and considerations

After a 1st half of the 1st quarter dominated by both defense the argubly best special team in the NFL came up strong and took an advantage of Ryan mistake to handle the snap tryin to punt the ball and they recovered the ball on Seattle 14 yards. The Eagles run the ball lot of times converting a 4th down before to pass the ball, they did it on a very Well designed WR screen for Maclin who came across the formation before he received the ball for the 1st TD of the game. Seattle answered back on the following drive even thanks to a controversial play when Baldwin received a Wilson's pass meanwhile a Seattle's offensive lineman was down field before the pass left Wilson's hands, that play open up the Wilson's rushing TD out of a read option fake who let him run all the way to the endzone untouched. Sanchez inability to pass the ball made the Eagles' offense predictable and McCoy has been in trouble to run the ball against a defense that was so ready for him. Even the Eagles defense has been Great in lot of aspects especially to contain Wilson spying him with Barwin and stopping Lynch with a very good job by their entire front 7. Despite the very Good Eagles' defense Wilson with 1:43 left in the 1st half leading his team to the FG range thank to 2 Big conversione of 3rd and over 15 yards, Haushka didn 't miss the 44 yards attempt to give his team the lead. The Eagles started the 2nd half in the worst way possible fumbling the ball with McCoy on their 19 yard line where Earl Thomas recovered it. The Seahawks punished the opponents with a receiving TD by Lynch on a wheel route after a very Well designed read option fake who saw Wilson rolling on his right and passing on his left to the wild open Lynch. Eagles special team lead the reaction providing their offense a good field position then Sanchez made his 1st good drive of the game using his TEs and has been a TE to score Phila's 1st TD of the game when Ertz beat LB Wright 1on 1 down field. An on fire Russell Wilson re-estabilished the previous lead immediately after the Ertz TD with 2 long passes, both intended to Baldwin, the 1st resulted in a pass interference and the 2nd for a TD on a vertical seem from the slot position. Lynch gave the Eagles a chance to cut the deficit fumbling the ball at the Eagles 30 yards after he received a short pass by Wilson. After FS Malcolm Jemkins recovered it Sanchez wasted the possession throwing a pick 6 to CB Simonon a Deep route to the left side intended to WR Cooper. Seattle dominated the game on the most part of the aspects, they have been able to take away the Eagles running game for all 60 minutes and this forced Sanchez to difficult situations that he is not able to handle and the result has been awfu with 10/20 for us 96 yards and 2 TDs. Seattle in recent weeks is retuned to play like they played all last year with an impenatrable defense able to rush the pass and so to let his CB play their typicall pressure coverage outside, Sherman stepped up along with Byron Maxwell who is improved so much since he got the starting CB job and that allowed Cam Chancellor to play more committed to the run and result has been awesome for them to limiti a Pro Bowler like McCoy to just 50 yards and 2.9 for carry. The Eagles need to regroup and learn from their mistakes to keep the division lead over the Cowboys and when Foles will comeback things will get better offensively. The MVP of the game goes to a very good Wilson who is always on the line but he manged great nearly every situation in the game and ended it with a total of 3 TDs.


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