{"id":371565,"date":"2025-11-11T13:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T13:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/371565\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T13:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T13:05:10","slug":"the-eagles-called-out-the-packers-failed-4th-down-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/371565\/","title":{"rendered":"The Eagles called out the Packers\u2019 failed 4th down play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Before the Green Bay Packers lost the game with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acmepackingcompany.com\/green-bay-packers-news\/74339\/the-packers-story-about-brandon-mcmanus-isnt-lining-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">64-yard field goal miss from kicker Brandon McManus<\/a>, the offense\u2019s previous drive stalled out at midfield because of a turnover on downs. To add insult to injury, the Philadelphia Eagles\u2019 defense knew exactly what was coming on that fourth down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">On 4th and 1, the Packers lined up in the shotgun, which generally makes defenses second-guess whether a run is coming. Because of the predictability of Green Bay\u2019s offense, though, all disguise was blown. The Packers often run out of the shotgun in these short-yardage looks, and the Eagles knew it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Listen to the audio in the clip above. Right before the snap, a Philadelphia defender screams, \u201cInside zone this way, inside zone this way.\u201d And by God, it was inside zone that way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This isn\u2019t too tough of a call, considering most gun runs go opposite of where the running back lines up, since he has to cross the midpoint of the formation to get the ball from the quarterback. You sort of cut the field in half by nature there. But STILL.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Eagles\u2019 defensive linemen got off the ball very quickly, forcing Josh Jacobs to bounce the play backside, right into two linemen who were shedding their blocks, made by Jordan Morgan and Luke Musgrave, and a safety coming into the box as an extra fitter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Ultimately, success on that play wouldn\u2019t have mattered for the Packers, because they also committed a pre-snap penalty on the run \u2014 an illegal formation because both Musgrave and receiver Dontayvion Wicks were on the ball on the same side of the field.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">So not only was Green Bay sloppy with their details on the got-to-have-it down, but they were also very predictable while doing it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Before the Green Bay Packers lost the game with a 64-yard field goal miss from kicker Brandon McManus,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":371566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[166082,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-371565","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-green-bay-packers-analysis","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115531214112487013","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}