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Inside The Data: Hope For Even More From The Eagles' Passing Game? · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Hello, welcome back to Inside the Data on Inside the Birds.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Jeff Mosher. We got the data expert and the
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  Speaker 1: analytics man Sam Finkel with us for our weekly preview
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  Speaker 1: of the Eagles next opponent. The Eagles will be playing
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  Speaker 1: the Washington Commanders. Sam, this is a Sunday night primetime
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  Speaker 1: game between two teams who have less wins combined than
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  Speaker 1: like four or five other teams in the NFL, which
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  Speaker 1: is kind of crazy. You can add up their two
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  Speaker 1: and five record and Washington's one, four and one, you
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  Speaker 1: get three wins. And I think Minnesota already has double.
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  Speaker 1: They kept this game in prime time. Kind of crazy, huh? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it is.
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  Speaker 2: I guess part of the allure is that you have
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  Speaker 2: a divisional matchup and maybe that is part of the
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  Speaker 2: reason they kept it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. Probably it's two big markets. So they
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  Speaker 1: know they're going to get a lot of people watching it,
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  Speaker 1: even if they're bad.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And probably a lack of a dominant game that you,
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  Speaker 1: although I thought Chiefs Broncos would be a potential move
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  Speaker 1: into that slot. Any other games that stood out? I mean, Minnesota.
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  Speaker 2: Detroit for sure is a pretty good game. And all
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  Speaker 2: divisional games we're talking about too. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Even Baltimore Buffalo, even though the Ravens have struggled,
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  Speaker 1: that's like Josh Allen with Lamar Jackson coming back, but
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  Speaker 1: maybe they didn't know because you have to make these
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  Speaker 1: things in advance but either way we will preview this
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  Speaker 1: eagles commanders now this is the second this is it
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  Speaker 1: the series remember last year they didn't play until week
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  Speaker 1: 16 for the first time this year they're gonna be
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  Speaker 1: done by week eight so let us do what we
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  Speaker 1: do and take a look at the charts that you
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  Speaker 1: have put together as we see how they match up
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  Speaker 1: numerically let's always start with our monte carlo carlo simulation
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  Speaker 1: and now how has that changed this week sam Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It's down 14.2 percentage points from the original model. Again,
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  Speaker 2: losing Hertz was just such a big loss for the team.
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  Speaker 2: So they went from winning 603 out of the 1,000
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  Speaker 2: simulations to 461.
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  Speaker 1: I wonder why they are now, as you just mentioned, underdogs.
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  Speaker 1: So they're only given a 46% chance to win, right?
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  Speaker 1: Which means the commanders have like a 54% chance to win,
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  Speaker 1: if my mathing is correct. But the Commanders are 1-4-1.
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  Speaker 1: I guess that takes into account the injuries and the
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  Speaker 1: fact that the Commanders have their starting quarterback. The Eagles don't.
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  Speaker 1: The Eagles may not have Barkley and Devontae Smith. We
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  Speaker 1: don't know at this point.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. And if you remember, there was a bias we
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  Speaker 2: identified in the model pretty early on that it really
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  Speaker 2: favors home field.
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  Speaker 1: Ah, right.
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  Speaker 2: Probably more than it should, and I will work on
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  Speaker 2: that for next year's model. But the way it was built,
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  Speaker 2: it really gives the edge. When there's uncertainty, it gives
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  Speaker 2: the edge to the home team more often than not.
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  Speaker 2: So when you see, like last week, when the home
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  Speaker 2: team gets as an underdog, it's not a great sign.
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  Speaker 2: But I do think that is part of the reason
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  Speaker 2: why it is the way it is.
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  Speaker 1: There's probably something to be said for the strength of win.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, neither of these teams have won a lot
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  Speaker 1: of games. The Commanders beat Seattle. The Eagles best win
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  Speaker 1: is which one Tennessee or Washington? I mean, like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think Seattle's got more wins than Tennessee
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  Speaker 1: and Washington combined right now. So yeah. Yeah. So, so
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  Speaker 1: there's probably something to be said for that.
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  Speaker 2: I think so too. And plus not having your starting
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  Speaker 2: quarterback is really challenging. It's a, it's tough. It's really
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  Speaker 2: tough to win games without that. I mean, unless you
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  Speaker 2: have a Nick Foles type player, obviously.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was going to say the Eagles used to
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  Speaker 1: be pretty good at winning with their backup. So there
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  Speaker 1: was Foles or Minshew or somebody else. But this is
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  Speaker 1: a different kind of year as we've been talking about.
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  Speaker 2: It really is.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's compare these juggernauts at a glance.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, listen, at a glance, basically, I think
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  Speaker 2: we have to acknowledge the elephant in the room. Washington's
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  Speaker 2: record should not obscure its scoring and turnover advantages. They
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  Speaker 2: are real. Right. I mean, you look at it and
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  Speaker 2: they they're a better points per game team than the Eagles.
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  Speaker 2: And they have a plus six turnover differential and the
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  Speaker 2: Eagles have minus three. So I think you have to
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  Speaker 2: acknowledge that this team has, on average, scored more points
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  Speaker 2: than the Eagles. And they are better at taking the
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  Speaker 2: ball away and taking care of the football, the differential
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  Speaker 2: between them.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what the saddest stat of all of
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  Speaker 1: them is, though.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, what's that?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, for the longest time, you could always guarantee
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  Speaker 1: that even if Washington was good, that they were going
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  Speaker 1: to be reckless and undisciplined and have a crap load
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  Speaker 1: of penalties. And unfortunately, they're not. I mean, they're not great,
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  Speaker 1: but the Eagles are worse.
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  Speaker 2: I would say that is not the case. I said
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  Speaker 2: they're still undisciplined. And the reason I'm going to say
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  Speaker 2: that is because this is not a per-game basis, right?
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  Speaker 2: And the commanders had a bye week. And the Eagles didn't.
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  Speaker 1: Great point.
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  Speaker 2: I think that that expectation is still realistic.
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  Speaker 1: So what is the average? So the Eagles have 52
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  Speaker 1: penalties in seven games, right? So that's an average about
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  Speaker 1: seven and a half per game. 7.4.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. And the commanders have 46 and six games.
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  Speaker 2: And that's 7.7.
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  Speaker 1: So you're right there. Well, but it still goes to
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  Speaker 1: my point. You used to be able to look at
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  Speaker 1: the commanders and be like, they're going to be last
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  Speaker 1: in the league and they're going to be, there's going
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  Speaker 1: to be flags all over the place. So, and that's
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  Speaker 1: just not been the case.
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  Speaker 2: No, and that's fair. I wanted to point out that
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  Speaker 2: in a per game basis, it's sure the gap is
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  Speaker 2: not as much as you would think.
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  Speaker 1: And that's very important. All right. So let's look about
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  Speaker 1: how they match up offense versus defense from an efficiency standpoint.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. And this is from NFL pro source for NFL pro.
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  Speaker 2: And basically the Eagles offense 29th, in passing, 25th in
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  Speaker 2: rushing efficiency, and 28th in pressure rate. They're not 32nd
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  Speaker 2: in pressure rate anymore. So that's an improvement if you
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  Speaker 2: are looking for one. I do think they got worse
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  Speaker 2: in the other two statistics, but hey, pressure rate, they're
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  Speaker 2: handling better. And then you look at the commander's defense.
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  Speaker 2: They're 23rd in passing efficiency allowed, 26th in rushing efficiency allowed,
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  Speaker 2: and 21st in pressure rate. So, I mean, it's a
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  Speaker 2: battle of bad. right there for that matchup.
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  Speaker 1: So hold on a second. You're telling me that the
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  Speaker 1: Eagles are playing a division opponent on prime time that
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  Speaker 1: is not very good on defense, either passing or rushing, right?
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I may have heard this story before,
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  Speaker 1: like last week. Yeah, it's just strange.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. It's repackaged and painted a little bit differently.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was going to say, did you just keep
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  Speaker 1: the numbers and just, like, change the colors of the name?
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know how you can tell I didn't is
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  Speaker 2: because it's not 32nd in overall passing efficiency.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's true. That's true. Although Dallas may no longer
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  Speaker 1: be after that.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think they are anymore.
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  Speaker 1: That's right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. All right.
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  Speaker 1: On the other side.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So when the commanders have the ball, they're 21st
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  Speaker 2: in passing efficiency, 15th in rushing efficiency.
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  Speaker 1: That's surprising to me, by the way. We're going to.
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  Speaker 2: Have a lot to talk about with rushing. And this
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  Speaker 2: is the time when we get into the DVOA and
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  Speaker 2: the EPA, there's a huge disagreement.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I know why. Okay, go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: And then they're 19th in pressure rate. And then you
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  Speaker 2: look at the Eagles and they're 26th in passing, 25th
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  Speaker 2: in rushing, and 26th in pressure rate.
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  Speaker 1: Like we all thought they would be going into the
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  Speaker 1: bottom five, bottom 10 and major three defensive categories.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Crazy. All right. As we go inside the matchup and
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  Speaker 1: Start with the Eagles offense versus commanders defense.
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  Speaker 2: It's a good place to start. Um, cause I, I
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  Speaker 2: think it's interesting, uh, both units are not great in very, many, many,
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  Speaker 2: very many categories.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: But you look at their EPA play and again, EPA
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  Speaker 2: negative is bad for offense and it is good for
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  Speaker 2: defense in this context because this was sourced from NFL pro,
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  Speaker 2: which does it that somewhat the counterintuitive way.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: But I do want to make it clear that this
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  Speaker 2: is a time where that matters. Right. Eagles are 30th
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  Speaker 2: in EPA per play. And the commander's defense is 0.02 allowed,
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  Speaker 2: which is 24th in the league. So again, bad on bad.
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  Speaker 2: EPA per pass minus 0.23 in terms of EPA per pass,
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  Speaker 2: which is 29th in the league. And there are 0.01
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  Speaker 2: commanders allowing, which is 23rd EPA per rush. And this
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  Speaker 2: is where it's going to get kind of interesting with
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  Speaker 2: the commander's rush defense. They are 0.03, which is 31st
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  Speaker 2: in the league. And then when we go into the DVOA,
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  Speaker 2: they're minus 13.5%, which is 10th in the league. So
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  Speaker 2: adjust it. And we'll kind of talk about that when
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  Speaker 2: I get into the DVOA more, but again, from an
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  Speaker 2: EPA perspective, the Eagles are a, you know, a bottom
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  Speaker 2: 10 team in general.
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  Speaker 1: Can you explain to me how the Eagles best metric
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  Speaker 1: in this, in their offense is they're rushing. How is
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  Speaker 1: that even, which is not good, by the way, they're
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  Speaker 1: ranked 25th, but they're, 0.13 is their best EPA metric
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  Speaker 1: of all the three, play, pass, and rush.
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  Speaker 2: That is true. I think some of it is they've–
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  Speaker 2: I think they've scored a decent amount of rushing touchdowns.
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  Speaker 2: And if you remember, EPA is pretty sensitive to touchdowns.
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  Speaker 1: They also probably– well, I don't know. I was going
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  Speaker 1: to say because Barkley had very few runs, but he
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  Speaker 1: had some explosives. He had about two or three, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe their explosives per actual run is not that bad.
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  Speaker 1: They just– you know, they didn't run the ball at
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  Speaker 1: all two weeks ago. So it's like that there weren't
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  Speaker 1: that many carries to even hold, you know, wait them down.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't know. Just very interesting.
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  Speaker 2: Good point. Something to track for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And then let's go into their DVOA, which again is
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  Speaker 2: a better stat because it contextualizes against your opponent and
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  Speaker 2: situationally and it's adjusted as such. And remember the normal
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  Speaker 2: DVOA is standardized. So it's a pretty good metric on
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  Speaker 2: its own of like, if you're minus 16.7, It means
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  Speaker 2: you're 16.7% under the league average. And then you look
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  Speaker 2: at the DVOA, 7.1%, 7.1% allowing over the league average.
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  Speaker 2: Here's where it gets interesting. When you go to passing
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  Speaker 2: and rushing, it's not normalized. So you kind of have
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  Speaker 2: to look more at the league rank. And so they're
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  Speaker 2: 28th in passing and 23rd in rushing DVOA, which roughly
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  Speaker 2: agrees with the passing and rushing EPA. No problem there.
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  Speaker 2: That feels pretty good. You're pretty confident that's where the
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  Speaker 2: Eagles lay. When you look at the commanders, you see
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  Speaker 2: they're passing DVOA and their EPA, 23rd in EPA, 26th
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  Speaker 2: in passing. That's pretty consistent. When you look at their
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  Speaker 2: EPA per rush, it's 31st in the league from an
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  Speaker 2: EPA perspective, and it's 10th in DVOA. Hmm.
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  Speaker 1: So does that mean that maybe they've just given up
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of goal line touchdowns that have inflated their
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  Speaker 1: EPA per rush, but they actually don't give up a
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  Speaker 1: lot of rushing yards or maybe just some explosives? Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: It's explosives, touchdowns that the EPA is very sensitive to.
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  Speaker 2: And then you've also got to factor a lot of
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  Speaker 2: it is their opponent, right? If they're going against a
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  Speaker 2: really tough opponent, it's less of a– if you're going
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  Speaker 2: against a cupcake team, EPA doesn't care. DVOA does, right. So,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they are a better run defense than advertised
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  Speaker 2: if you look at an EPA standpoint. From DVOA, they
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  Speaker 2: are a better run defense than what they've been credited for,
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  Speaker 2: at least from an EPA perspective. Right.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not even sure how to contextualize it because we
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  Speaker 1: don't even know who's going to be running the ball
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  Speaker 1: for the Eagles.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Eagles can't run the ball against anybody. So it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: matter if they're running the ball, if it's a good
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  Speaker 1: run defense, right? Yeah. Interesting. Let's go to the other
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  Speaker 1: side now. So the Eagles defense versus the commander's offense. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And let's just, I'm going to do it on a
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  Speaker 2: per play basis first again. So EPA per play, Eagles
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  Speaker 2: are 0.05. which is 27th in the league. And then DVOA,
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  Speaker 2: they're 22nd at 6.5%. So 6.5% above average on a
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  Speaker 2: defensive side, or I guess below because it flips DVOA
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  Speaker 2: flips it. You want to be negative. Not great spot.
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  Speaker 2: 22nd and 27th. That basically comports pretty well. Same with
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  Speaker 2: the commanders at minus 0.08, which is 20th in the
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  Speaker 2: league and minus 7.3% in DVOA, which is 23rd in
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  Speaker 2: the league. That, is pretty consistent. You look from a
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  Speaker 2: pass perspective, the Eagles are 26th in EPA and 23rd
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  Speaker 2: in DVOA. And then the commanders are 21st in EPA
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  Speaker 2: per pass and 17th in DVOA per pass. Pretty close
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  Speaker 2: there too. And then you look at the run defense,
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  Speaker 2: Eagles are 29th in EPA and 25th in DVOA. And
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  Speaker 2: the commander's offense is 17th in EPA per rush and
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  Speaker 2: 27th in rushing DVOA.
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  Speaker 1: So there's a major disagreement between EPA and DVOA on
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  Speaker 1: the commander's rushing offense. And that's because DVOA wouldn't count,
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  Speaker 1: I think, Daniels' scrambles, right? It would.
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  Speaker 2: It would. It would count the scrambles.
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  Speaker 1: I thought freelance runs were not rushing DVOA.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you're probably rushing DVOA. Yes, DVOA, yes. You're right.
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  Speaker 2: From EPA, it does. I apologize for that.
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  Speaker 1: So Daniels will give them explosive runs. He had like
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  Speaker 1: two rushing touchdowns that were big last week, I think,
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  Speaker 1: and that'll give them a nice EPA per rush when
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  Speaker 1: he does that. But DVOA considers rushing as conventional, hand
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  Speaker 1: the ball off to a running back.
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  Speaker 2: Designed runs.
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  Speaker 1: They don't have a very good running game because– they
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  Speaker 1: don't have good running backs and their offensive lines hurt.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Thank you. I apologize for the discrepancy there.
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  Speaker 1: No, no. I think that's, it's great. It's great that
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  Speaker 1: you have that. And we can talk about, Hey, don't
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  Speaker 1: be fooled by having a great EPA per rush. They
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  Speaker 1: don't run the ball. Well, they just get a lot
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  Speaker 1: of explosive runs from their quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: Exactly.
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: Which is still valuable, obviously. Sure.
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: Sure.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: Sure.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: Especially, I mean, the Eagles have a trouble against it.
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: Him.
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: I mean, everybody does, basically.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: I mean, we could go back to that first chart.
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: And basically, they had 54.3% pressure rate against him. But
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: their sack rate was only 2.9%.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: Crazy.
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: I mean, they had trouble getting to him.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: Right. And of course, we know Terry McLaurin is going
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: to be out. He's on IR now. So Daniels might
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: be running more. Or, you know, maybe we'll see Antonio Williams,
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: the rookie, who I think he had a touchdown against
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: the Eagles in the season opener.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: The one that looked like it might have been dropped,
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: but it was dropped. It was like a great catch.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: Actually, he doesn't get targeted that much, but he seems
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: to be a pretty decent player and rookie. I wouldn't
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: be surprised if he starts to come up a little
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: bit more now that McLaurin's on IR.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: Yes, I agree completely.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: All right. So we've gone through all the big numbers.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: The takeaways are what?
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: Look, there is a plausible path to rebound and break
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: this five-game streak. I mean, the offense has an opportunity
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: against a not-so-good Washington defense. The defense has a chance
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: to kind of respond and really rebound from last game
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: because that was a horrific performance by the Eagles defense.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: I think they're better than their stats indicate. And I think,
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: like you said, the commanders are pretty hurt, too. So
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: there is a chance. But I think that the model
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: like that I built is does not favor them. I
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: do think there is a chance the streak breaks the
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: five game skid stops. But to what effect? I'm not sure.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: Not sure if it's the best thing for the team.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: I know that's never fun to say, but I don't
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: know what this win does for you.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: But we'll see. Hey, Philly fans game day is stressful enough.
• 19:08
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• 20:02
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• 20:06
  Speaker 1: That's why they play the game. And I'll say this, Sam,
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: as we close the show here, one more loss and
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: your top five college prospects are in the next Inside
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: the Day. Yep.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: All right. We might have to start getting into that.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: I think we're getting there faster than we would like
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: to be, obviously.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: A whole lot faster than I ever imagined.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: Yes. All right.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: Great stuff. That is the preview. We'll see what the
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: Eagles do when they play on Sunday night. Of course,
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: we'll have the game previewed even more on the Inside
• 20:35
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• 20:37
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• 20:39
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• 20:42
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