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Originally Posted by Colts And Orioles
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One of the sacks was Ryan taking one intentionally on 3rd down and goal to keep the clock running, instead of throwing an incomplete pass ...... the Colts were in chip-shot field goal range either way, so Ryan did the right thing back sitting down in-bounds to make the Eagles use one of their time-outs instead of throwing it out of bounds and stopping the clock.
Also, of the other 3 sacks, at least 2 of them were coverage sacks, not necessarily the fault of the offensive line. In fact, on none of the other 3 sacks did we see what we have been seeing most of the season, which is having defensive linemen/linebackers in the quarterback's face less than 2 seconds after the ball is snapped. Although, they were there pretty quick on the final sack (about 3 or 4 seconds after the ball was snapped) at the end of the game.
My eyes saw a solid game from them today, much closer to the 2 in which they had against the Jaguars in Week 6 and against the Raiders in Week 10 than the 8 awful ones that they had for most of the rest of this season.
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I think I understand what you're saying. Just watching the game, it didn't feel like Ryan was constantly in a collapsing pocket, constantly under duress, etc. Compared to earlier games like 1st JAX, KC, DEN... those games felt like every-single-play was a free runner straight up Ryan's ass.
It's an improvement over the catastrophe that it was, but still not good. And the run blocking is still not there. The Eagles were giving up around 145yds/gm their previous 5 games. After the first drive, I thought we'd top that easily. But we completely stalled out again.