Philadelphia had a 41.5 percent pressure rate this season, per Pro Football Focus.

Posted on January 31 by admin

The biggest thing that group brings is the ability to generate sacks, hits, and hurries without extra help from the linebackers or defensive backs. The platonic ideal for a defense is being able to pressure the QB without having to resort to the blitz, and the Eagles can do it better than almost anyone.

That’s a considerably above-average figure — the league as a whole got pressure on 34.7 percent of opponent drop backs during the regular season. What’s most impressive about Philly’s pass rush, though, was that they generated pressure on 38.3 percent of snaps when sending only four rushers after the quarterback.

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The Philadelphia defense is good enough to win games on its own, but Atlanta’s offense just seems to hit another level in the postseason, where Julio Jones becomes practically unstoppable. The Falcons aren’t the best cold weather team anyone has ever seen, but they’ve actually been pretty good in Philadelphia over the years. If the Eagles were at full strength, this pick would probably be different; but right now, they’re just not.

It’s a playoff game, so it’s not like it’s the preseason where I can go out there, ‘Oh, it’s Brady,’ and I’m chillin, Byard said this week. This is a playoff game. So I don’t really care if it was Joe Montana. You know what I’m saying? I’m trying to go out there and win the game. I want to make him look like Blake Bortles if I can and try to catch a couple picks. Tom Brady is a great quarterback, but it’s a playoff game. I’m not really looking at it like that. sabres_004

Jon Gruden showed us the last time a quarterback caught his own touchdown pass, as Marcus Mariota did on Saturday.

Posted on January 28 by admin

T.J. Watt’s preseason debut for the Steelers was so dominant (two sacks) that outside linebackers coach Joey Porter declared that Watt would start over the ageless James Harrison. Watt’s second preseason game, though, didn’t go as smoothly.

On Sunday, it was an uneven first half for Watt, who looked solid in run defense, but failed to make an impact as a pass rusher. He notched four tackles (two solo), including one for a loss.

It made for a funny moment because ESPN didn’t just show the clip on TV, and we learned Gruden had an iPhone instead of some flip phone.

Shots fired, bulletin board material posted, whatever else you want to call the two players’ interactions through the media. However, as much as I don’t blame the Jaguars for taking offense to Roethlisberger’s comment, his comments were based more on his own individual desire for redemption, not solely directed towards the Jaguars’ defense.

So to coach the Giants, he’d likely need to be traded and that’s possibly the most unrealistic part of it all. No coaching trade has happened since Jon Gruden was traded from the Raiders to the Buccaneers in 2002 and it’d be a messy end to a tremendous era in New England.

It would also cost the Giants a ludicrous price tag to get Belichick. According to the New York Daily News, it’d take three first-round picks to pull the Patriots coach away, which presents a couple significant problems:

We have a pretty good, balanced team. Sometimes these issues help you bring the team together, too.

Being an official isn’t for the fainthearted. When they get things right it’s taken for granted. They’re roasted whenever they do make a mistake. But they seemed to get more things wrong than usual this week. sabres_815

Blake Bortles was running to the sideline with a couple of Bills defenders chasing him late in the Jags’ game against the Bills.

Posted on January 26 by admin

I made this observation on Twitter and I will share it here as well without shame — this is the first time anybody has been afraid to defend Blake Bortles.

After the NFL’s best rookie Alvin Kamara scored a touchdown to put the Saints up for good at 31-19, he was seen on the sideline passing out AirHeads.

But somewhere along the way, Blake Bortles played just well enough to keep his Jaguars alive, and a talented roster took care of the rest. Defensive Player of the Year candidates Calais Campbell and Jalen Ramsey terrorized quarterbacks to make Jacksonville a team no opponent was comfortable facing. The Jags finished the season first in the league in defensive efficiency and second in total defense and sacks per game en route to its first division title of the millennium.

I mean, that is incredible. I’m totally blown away. I will book my flights tonight. I will be there the week of the Super Bowl, Morstead said in a video thank-you message on Twitter. You guys should all be proud of yourselves. That’s a group effort, and it’s gonna affect everyone in your community in a positive way. And I’m just totally humbled by this.

Even the NFL teams who made the playoffs this year are tough to rank out from a 1-12 standpoint because of the different injuries they’ve dealt with throughout the course of the season.

Breaking down the playoff bracket, which features four different huge favorites in Wild Card Weekend alone, is not easy. But let’s try anyway. Shoutout to the CBS graphic team and the awesome Mike Meredith for the full playoff bracket below.

Although Patriots players almost never talk about their injuries, Brady made an exception on Monday. During his weekly radio interview with WEEI in Boston, Brady confirmed that he played in the AFC Championship game with 12 stitches and he also offered a few more details about what exactly happened last Wednesday, when he suffered a hand injury that nearly derailed the Patriots’ season. sabres_800

What was surprising was the degree to which the Eagles dominated.

Posted on January 24 by admin

The Eagles were the No. 1 seed, so it’s not necessarily a big surprise that they won — even if they did come into the game as underdogs.

A top-10 offense was held to just seven points. After the Vikings scored on their first possession, they did not score again. The Vikings opened and closed the game with matching 75-yard drives. The first lasted nine plays and ended in a touchdown. The last included 11 plays and ended in an interception. In between, Minnesota ran 46 plays and gained just 183 yards — an average of 3.9 per play.

Of course, just because they’re inexperienced in the postseason doesn’t mean we should write them of. Just ask the Steelers, who lost to a wild 45-42 shootout to Jacksonville on Sunday.

If there’s one team in the AFC that could conceivably slow down the Patriots, it’s the Jags. The best way to slow Brady down is to beat him up and that’s exactly what the Jaguars are good at. During the regular season, the Jags finished second in the NFL in sacks with 55.

The Jaguars-Patriots game will be a rematch of the title game that took place in January 1997. Twenty-one years ago, the Patriots advanced to Super Bowl XXXI after beating the Jags 20-6.

The official’s decision to flag Bouye didn’t sit well with anyone on Twitter. Most people watching the game at home wanted to know why the Jags’ corner was being penalized for perfect coverage.

The bottom line is that there was definitely contact on the play, and that’s a flag that an official is probably going to throw more often than not.

The Patriots made the flag pay off when they scored a touchdown two plays later on a one-yard touchdown run by James White. The score cut the Jaguars’ lead to 14-10 at halftime.

Vrabel has strong Patriots connections with GM Jon Robinson, having played for New England from 2001 through 2008. Robinson was in the scouting department with the Pats from 2002-08. Vrabel, an Akron, Ohio native, was drafted in the third round of the 1997 NFL Draft by the Steelers. He would play in Pittsburgh four years before Bill Belichick brought him into New England via free agency. Vrabel thrived as a linebacker in Belichick’s system, making the Pro Bowl and All-Pro in 2007. bears_018-223x223

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Month: January 2018

Philadelphia had a 41.5 percent pressure rate this season, per Pro Football Focus.

Jon Gruden showed us the last time a quarterback caught his own touchdown pass, as Marcus Mariota did on Saturday.

Blake Bortles was running to the sideline with a couple of Bills defenders chasing him late in the Jags’ game against the Bills.

What was surprising was the degree to which the Eagles dominated.