Eagles Defense Provides Hope! Film Review
Oct 13, 2026 · 1h 16m · take 9 of 17
- Jalen Hurts targets the middle of the field at a bottom-five rate in the NFL.
“at this point I think we can just say Jalen Hurts is not going to target the middle of the field at anything other than a bottom five rate in the NFL.”
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SyedI guess I'm just not expecting that to be a drastic change. So, if the offensive coordinator has to say alright, well, we're not going to be able run crossers consistently through the middle of the field. Offense throughout the league do that. You saw the Jaguars do it a ton to a bunch of success even in this game, but we still have to do something.
SyedSo if this is your kind of middle ground, do I love it? No, but like, all right, well, if the ball is going to get to the receiver, then, you know, that can be something you feel good about at least.
SyedI got
Kapadiato the same conclusion here, and I don't know why it's this game, but I just wrote down in my notes that at this point I think we can just say Jalen Hurts is not going to target the middle of the field at anything other than a bottom five rate in the NFL. If and when he proves me wrong, we can revisit it.
KapadiaWe can discuss it. But now it's been multiple coordinators, multiple schemes, multiple examples on film of guys being open in that area of the field and him being hesitant to throw the football. So I just think that we're fair to draw that conclusion. We've given it time and you don't need to send me clips.
KapadiaI didn't say never. You know, the biggest play of the game, he throws to Dallas Goddard in the middle of the field and it gets him into field goal range. You mentioned it. There are examples under center play action to Makai Lemon. I actually thought that was, you know, I didn't know the reason for that, Sean.
KapadiaI thought maybe like the defense is expecting him to run that kind of over route deep there and he kind of cuts it off. That's a
From the episode transcript around 00:46:07. Speaker names are recognized by voice.
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