Why the NFL can’t stop blitzing Jalen Hurts.
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The NFL can’t stop blitzing Jalen Hurts, and he took a major step back in 2023. The entire Eagles offense struggled in the later part of the 2023 season as teams blitzed Hurts repeatedly. But as football goes, it wasn’t just on the Quarterback, the receivers and offensive line struggled as well, and Brian Johnson’s offensive scheme did Hurts no favors. Why did the NFL blitz Hurts so much and why did the Eagles entire season go so wrong? This week’s episode uses the coaches all 22 to analyze Philadelphia Eagles Quarterback Jalen Hurts and how he handled being the NFL’s most blitzed quarterback.
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Let’s not skip the fact that the OC and Sirianni made zero adjustments to help combat the blitz. I’ve watched tons of film where all receiver are just deep and outside the numbers. Zero in the middle, zero short check downs and zero hot routes
Precisely, the OC was incompetent. Predictable offense , no blitz-beaters, slow developing downfield routes for all receivers. Hurts never had a chance.
I agree but it makes it harder when hurts doesnt throw over the middle hardly at all
@@drizzle27he wasn't throwing over the field mostly because the moron OC and head coach.
@@drizzle27 can't throw there when nobody is there
They designed the offense that way deliberately to play to Jalen’s strengths as a passer. In a way, they were almost forced to call their offense this way due to the limitations of their star QB. Which are: he doesn’t see well over the middle, and he doesn’t excel making quick decisions.
The Eagles Offence also used the least amount of Pre Snap Motion, which just makes it harder to recognise how the Defence will play some of those routes
He also basically only plays out of the gun, plenty of issues over there
@@samuelault4723 yep. thats what happens when your buddy becomes your coordinator and you get to influence the offense. they let him play how he wanted to play.. not what was best for the offense
@@wonderwallz99 Hurts did not want to play in that system that at all, he made that clear. He specifically requested that they run a RPO offense.
@@jadenblackerby3325they ran rpo from time to time. Actually it’s been the same rpo plays since that fluke Super Bowl run. Even that year they really on ran it against Dallas. Y’all clearly don’t watch the Eagles🤣
@@MrExoticDemon you might want to google before you talk we used rpo less in 23 than we did in 22
Who else has been binge watching these videos missing football season. I can't wait until the season comes back 💯
Real
So real
It’s worth mentioning that the eagles have not had hot reads in the normal sense since Doug Peterson was fired it was even an issue in the sb run but was masked by Shane’s genius and the staff thought they were hot shit and never tried to fix it
Fr Nick cocky AF for a coach who can't call plays 😂 there's 14yo Madden players who could call a game better than nick
And it was apparent when Shane had success during his first season with the Colts. They almost got into the playoffs with a journeyman backup QB.
I praying to the football gods that Jalen and Moore can clean this up this season, the league isn't going to stop until we prove we can beat the blitz constantly.
Once something is exposed in* the NFL it's make or break
I mean Moore is NO ONES savior. Lets put it this way Kike McCarthy the guy who the Packers fired was light years better than Moore.
with moore it’s probably gonna get worse
It's because y'all had an abysmal offensive coordinator and y'all still won 10 games. Y'all should be fine
@@ImJustFusion How you figure? Moore has had top 5 even Top 2 offensives as a OC. When are last coordinator called 690 screen passes for -26 yards on the season. How could it be worse?
Definitely a coaching issue and a Hurts issue. They are going to need to put more practice time into the pre-snap. Hurts is still a very young QB, so he will learn and improve. I think we all forget he is as young as he is since he has been so successful so early in his career.
Coaching…why can’t y’all get that through y’all heads
Its mostly coaching
Is it? Hurts consistently overlooked the high percentage short yardage gain for an ill advised deep shot.... that might be coaching or it might be a hurts issue. I agree his coaching is trash and the scheme was embarrassing but Hurts has some stuff he needs to figure out, they straight up out rostered most teams last year and relied so much on the tush push, they may not have that anymore with Kelce retiring
What this tells me is how bad the play calling and scheme was. The fact that they went 10-1 with this is astounding! Sheesh! So glad we got Kellen Moore now. Go Birds!
Now you have to replace Jason Kelce
@@jamesknapp64 already done. Big jergens has been hand picked and groomed by Kelce himself to be his successor. Howie plays chess. Sees 5 moves ahead. Not saying he will be a hof like Kelce but we don’t need him to be. Serviceable starter is all. Our Oline is stacked so he has help. Don’t forget about the other 3 all pros.
People thought I was talking mad shit when I said the offense looked terrible during that stretch. I was saying Jalen alone was putting that team on his shoulders because of how piss poor the playcalling was. Their collapse definitely wasn't shocking because it was giving 2022 Vikings through and through; getting wins by the skin of their teeth
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I don't blame Jalen for this. The coaches had absolutely nothing schemed to beat the blitz. All they would do was throw a wr screen. Everyone in the stadium knew it was coming and yet they would keep doing it. It was so damn frustrating
He ignored many wide open guys trying to throw it deeper though. The play design isn’t his fault, but the execution is
i don’t remember the exact numbers but we did a ridiculous amount of wr screens last year all for a total of negative yardage…
It’s on Jalen too bro
Super athletic quarterbacks often come back to earth if they don't develop a better pocket game because the league adjusts to whatever their weakness is. Steve Young himself said he became a much better QB after he sprained his ankle and stopped thinking about running.
Yep Exactly...Lamar for example is just now learning to be a QB so every playoffs he gets exposed...hes so fat behind most QBs this far into their careers but at least his legs bought hin enough time to get this far. Steve Young also had maybe the best QB coach in history. Hurts has Nick and Moore who got fired from his last job and was bad enough in Dallas that he made Mike McCarthy look like a big upgrade
What does that have to do with coaching, play design, and play calling?
@@ChrisSmith-tu9bu because there are clips that shows guys open but he still threw it up. Or the fact he doesn’t change the play
Hurts was good in the pocket the last season before last
@@ChrisSmith-tu9bu To paraphrase a quote from John Madden, every coach gets fired at one point in their career.
Great vid encapsulated what us as fans were saying all season the coaching cause a regression on each position group bc if the coaches arent on the same page the players arent either. It was kinda confirmed by smitty in his appearance on the green light pod where he said (on moore) “it should make it easier on jalen and easier on everyone so we can actually see whats going on instead of just go win your 1on1s”(around 11:16 mark in that video)
Excellent video. I can't even finish watching it. It is bringing back trauma I didn't know I was carrying. 😂 Last year was hard to watch, beginning to end. Even when the Eagles were 10-1, many of us had ulcers from watching this stuff. Terrible as it was, it was almost a relief when the wheels finally came off and the season disintegrated.
Coaching was the worst of many issues last year, and I think we are in a much better spot this season. The defense was talent poor, and is at least improved. (And we now have a real DC.)
Hurts will be the key. Last year should've been a year in which he continued to improve and grow, addressing the weaknesses in his game. Instead, the coaches failed him and he looked lost and frustrated. We hope he will be healthy, well coached, and improved this season.
This is the best explanation I have read or watched since the season ended. Everyone blames the defense (understandable)and makes excuses for the offense, since they were still top 10. They were an offensive mess, especially in the second half. Makes sense everyone started attacking their major weakness. The opposing DC must have been laughing seeing the lack of adjustments. Excellent video Alex. High, high quality presentation. Well done.
The defense was probably the worst squad in the league by the end of the year. The offense was not that, although it was broken. I think the offense will get back to playing well this year, but who knows about the D.
I absolutely love videos like this. Alex your whole channel is so good at breaking down just how intricate the NFL is. It really is a game of violent chess.
Thank you my guy!!
The editing was so good in this video. Those "holograms" of the players signing things to each other were so cool and informative.
Man, dude, your content is so good. It's so rare to find fantastic NFL content like this with the UA-camr keeping things clean. Great video again, Alex. Thanks so much!
Thank you brother!! Much love!
Wow, great breakdown! Painful to watch but somehow therapeutic 😂 lord I hope Kellen can solve these issues, how HC kept his job after allowing all these issues is a mystery to me!
Thank you for demonstrating this. Love Hurts but he needs to improve, and most Philly fans ignore his flaws
Great analysis Alex. Watching the eagles last season was frustrating with how much talent they had
Very well done video!!!!
Shows how bad the play calling was last year. Should be vastly better this year with motioning and more a RB that can pass block.
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I loved how Eagles fans blamed the coordinaters for the super bowl L, but in their absence the team fell apart for the season
Steichen was awesome! It was our defensive coordinator who shit the bed
@@entrepreneur2159 while he wasn’t the best i feel like he had the best scheme for the personnel
@@entrepreneur2159 Losing to Patrick Mahomes & Andy Reid by THREE POINTS isn't "shitting the bed" - please stop with this complete and utter scapegoatism garbage😂😂😂😂
@@UndeadRising18Steichen was the best coordinator Hurts may ever have in his career. Herbert & Hurts had their best years with Steichen.
@@RyTrapp0letting a team score every possession of a second half where the offense isnt even playing badly is most definitely shitting the bed retard
Great content mate
Thanks brother!
Fantastic video.
Thank you!
Running inside zone 70-80% of the time tends to murder your offensive scheme
This was a great vid bro
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To say he doesn’t throw in the middle of the field is funny. We have seen him do it. Went to a SB. Why all of a sudden stop that? Coaching, coaching and coaching. I’m not saying he wasn’t at fault but this is the prime reason Siriani should have been fired.
great video
Thank you!
Teams had to stack the box to keep from getting run over. Very small step from that to bringing pressure on passing downs. That's what KC did to them in the Super Bowl. Make Hurts throw perfect dimes under pressure all day long by denying the run and blitzing the heck out of him.
Hurts still almost pulled it off, because he was darn near perfect for most of the game.
KC's rookie class of bigger, more athletic defensive backs (moving on from Tyrann Mathieu) had a lot to do with it.
I think when Hurts dropped the ball for no reason in that game the NFL figured out the blitz scared and shook the heck out of Hurts so that could have been the beginning to the end.
Hurts was dang near perfect in the Superbowl against the Blitz
@@maskedman5657 That's what I'm saying hurts was one of the best qbs against the blitz during the beginning of the season going into week 10 but when you actually don't scheme to pick up multiple blitzes that's when it goes wrong
Worst part is, the 49ers showed that he sucks if you play the contain game too.
As long as he's in the pocket, he struggles. Gimmick QB.
I think you did a great job summing up the entirety of the situation. The only thing I would say though, is this happened PRIMARIALLY because of coaching. Hurts has all the talent needed (He showed that in 2022), but without the right coaches, his flaws show. He asks to be coached hard. He knows he needs it, but those coaches let him down last year.
Hurts is ass
PRIMARIALLY
49ers fan here. This was an interesting educational video. Thanks!
Thanks brother!
You was right about Kenny Pickett & Justin Fields last year💯 you have the best film breakdowns on UA-cam and you don’t get enough credit.
Smitty's route @4:38 is absolutely dirty. Watching things like this just upset me. All of the miss opportunities. Fault lands with the coaching AND Jalen for being a one read QB.
Really great analysis. You really nailed down the reason I was so frustrated with how the Eagles 2023 season ended. I'm hoping the coaching staff have learned the right lessons from the end of the season and made adjustments accordingly for this upcoming season. Go Birds!
Thank you Bryan!
this is why I I'm not sold on players until their rookie contract is up. looking at Jordan Love
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The level of complicated, quick decision making required in the NFL means you need a smart QB and a smarter OC. As a Bears fan, I suffered from having neither with Justin Fields and Luke Getsy.
What I gather from this video is the amount that Hurts had to overcome coaching & scheme wise is far greater than I originally thought.
I feel like the Eagles simply expected to bully and out-talent teams each game offensively no matter what plays are being called in the Nick Sirianni era so far but that just isn’t sustainable.
Pretty much
Very accurate take. It isn't sustainable but Sirianni was too stubborn to make any types of adjustments and the offense became predictable. "This is MY offense." - Nick Sirianni
@@smdeagles2785 One of his few 'adjustments' was to promote Matt "Football Terrorist" Patricia, and we all know how well that went...
Yup. The best ball hurts throws is a 50/50 to AJ. In 2023 they had the best roster in franchise history, that season was full of ‘talent wins’. Teams figured out hurts and that’s why they lost 7 straight to end the season.
But hey, who knows maybe the coordinators can carry Siriani to playoff success again.
Almost like the Whiners expected to bully everyone they faced and we seen how well it worked out in the SB appearances they were in. It was also not sustainable
8:41 What in the Star Wars hologram special effects is this? Great editing man
Who is Obi Wan Kenobe in this analogy?
Thank you brother!
KELLEN MOORE NEEDS TO HAVE THIS HARD TALK WITH HIM! I believe Jalen wants to win very badly, and will listen and make a conscious effort to improve this.
EDIT: The chiefs play AJ was NOT supposed to run the deep route when Jalen got picked, he freelanced that route because he got a step on his guy. Jalen was expecting a shorter route. Just to bring it back to your point that they were not on the same page!
The amount of shade thrown at 3:16 hahahahaha
The eagLes shouldn't have gotten rid of Brian Johnson. Who will Nick Sirrinis scapegoat be now?
The data shows what happened, but not why that happened. To begin with, the Eagles have not given an explanation for the total collapse in the later games of last season. We are only left with supposition based on the team’s off season moves. So, let’s look from that. While the offense didn’t perform as well as last season, it was still one of the better offensive units in the league. The issue was almost exclusively on the defensive side. Mostly, due to a lack of talent in the secondary.
It seems to me, there was a game philosophy issue at the root of the failure, on both side of the ball. That philosophy was, the obsessive focus on the ‘big play’. Obsessed with making the big play on offense, and with not giving up the big play on defense. That explains much of what we saw happen on the field. Make no mistake, this was Sirianni’s base football philosophy, as mindlessly stupid as it was. He said as much in more than one Press meeting.
On offense, a risky constant pushing of the ball downfield, regardless of down & distance. Made obvious by Hurts’ throwing long when the was an open first down short, and holding the ball waiting to see if a big play develops downfield, often rolling-out to further extend the play. On defense, it produced a soft coverage scheme, giving up first down, after first down toavoid giving up a deep completion.
The problem with getting blitzed so much started with Brian Johnson
If the offensive coordinator from the opposing team chooses to use empty personnel on every snap I’d blitz the hell out of whatever QB that is back there
The eagles passing offense Hurts to watch recently.
Love the holograms!
They got film on him and started doing what they did to him in college he can bounce back if he can hit wrs more quickly
nice
World B Free was a great basketball player, but Edge B Free sounds like a potential disaster for any offense!
Hurts had one of the worst OCs in the league last year and still won 11 games. Abysmal run game, uncreative ways to scheme recievers open, and pass protection took a dip as well.
I question the sanity of a offensive coordinator installs and ultimately the head coach who approves a game plan with not even a thought given to blitz adjustments.
The way Jalen doesn’t throw to the middle of the field and scrambles out of clean pockets, reminds me of a younger Russel Wilson. Kinda.
I can not believe we were so bad to finish the season
Two games a season vs the 2023 Wink Martindale Giant's blitz oriented defense has an impact.
Very well broken down. As a birds fan, I was screaming at my TV about the coaches not having an answer for the blitz. Here’s to hoping KM has a better hot package and gets Jalen back to the basics in terms of progressions and reading the field bc if so the eagles will be a scary team for sure
“Nice” 😂
Soooo Jalen hurts just a taller Russell Wilson??
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I blame Jeffrey Lurie dor his cheap behind hiring a 1st time OC and DC for a championship ready team.
Brian Johnson really thought he could run only 5 plays, almost none of them involving the run, motion, or the middle of the field, and thought they were gonna get far. The fact that it actually worked for 11 games before the bottom finally dropped is pretty astounding when you consider that.
Another thing people need to remember, when a qb had a great year its not always gonna be the same the next year. Teams just adjust, you saw it with patrick mahomes when his first year he threw for 50 and was throwing bombs down the field every game, now defenses send two high safetys to stop the deep throw and keep everything in front for them. But its up to the qb to adjust to the defense, whcih is what patrick has done successfully. I bet you cj stroud will not have the same success he did this last year because theres a whole years worth of film and defenses will adjust. Jalen is perfectly capable of adjusting but its up to them to take tht step
It was miserable to see Devonta Smith's route chart after the season and realizing (what we already kinda knew) that 99% of the routes he ran started and ended at the same side of the field. He barely crossed the field and EVERY time a player ran a route crossing the field we had very good gain. We all thought "oh now they saw the potential there!!" but no, they just refused to open up the playbook.
I don't know exactly what happend but I'm sure there was a bit of hubris there. Like "this team can run anything or nothing at all and talent will carry them". And the fact that we got to 10-1 and AJ Brown had an unbelievable stretch speaks for itself. This is easily a SB winning roster if paired with a good coaching staff.
Shane was him for the offense, and Brian Johnson couldn't build upon that hype.
That offense was horrendous last year, they only survived the beginning of the year off of talent
3:30 is a very sick edit
The Eagles unwillingness to include a hot route has been infuriating as a fan even during our Super Bowl run. It was just finally exposed last year. Jalen can bounce back. I expect to see it. Still with all this he wasn’t awful by any means last year.
He’s a gamer he’ll adjust watch.
2:47
What's the standard deviation on that statistic? Where are the peaks in the depth of target plot (as in, does he make a whole lot of short, and a whole lot of really long, or did he just so happen to kinda move the whole graph just a bit farther)? How many passes did he make? Why would I care if *every* pass he made was only a yard farther?
3:22 Okay, he was 24th. How accurate was #1? #5? #16 or so? To what degree did success of completion correlate with victory (or chance of, mayhaps)?
Brian Johnson is the reason for everything in this breakdown.
If hurts is getting blitz more then the receiver should know to turn around quickly. AJ brown or 88 could had work together to get short catch at 1:38
The problem with trying to fix all this is that almost all coaches are stubborn to a fault. Can Sirianni honestly assess himself and get better? Doubtful, but its possible.
They went to a Super Bowl with out ever having hot reads in their offense. It finally caught up to them. Not sure if it’s something Hurts can’t handle or coaching.
Small question about semantics. Do you guys consider LBs to be part of the secondary? He mentions that he does at the beginning of the video and I guess I never viewed them as part of the secondary, even tho they drop into coverage often.
Good question
I mean if someone is in Coverage is that the definition of the secondary
Most people don't consider linebackers secondary unless they are dimebacks like Jayron Kearse or Jamal Adams
the clip were you are explaining what a blitz is, is one of 3 slant routes ran the whole season 😂😂
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I’ve said it a bunch of time. He can’t throw in the middle of the field. I’ve been an Eagles fan since 2001. I pray he gets those passes in the middle next year.
There was no good run game and the secondary was suspect to be kind to their actual performance. I'd say those were two bigger issues last year than the blitz rate
Hurts kills the offense by scrambling to the right and always looking to throw outside. The frustration is the equivalent of McNabb dirt balls.
4:30 yea that’s dumb. Adorie Jackson is one of the fastest corners and he’s like 12 yards deep. Run a curl route at least or do a short catch and get 3-5 yards and who knows maybe he makes a man miss. That’s was a bad play
Hopefully these new coaches have the capability to put the players in better positions since sirianni is just a cheerleader.
The Eagles players’ talent was able to carry them to 10-1. The coaching staff was the problem. I hope Moore coaches Jalen hard.
That's why Moore is here now. Motion stops the blitz. It forces adjustments
Hurts inst a great quarterback, he's a good quarterback when everything is going his way.
He's what people think Purdy is, but Purdy actually can run and throw instead of run away.
While I do agree that Jalen Hurts was not great, I think it was way more of a brian johnson issue cuz he was super uncreative and just bad at his job, I think Hurts will do better with Kellen moore as his OC, although probably not as good as he was with steichen
This why you dont hire a first year coordinator with a still developing qb. Never understood why they though that was a good idea especially coming of superbowl.
It’s very simple coach Nick has said a million times if her sees one of our two WR1’s on single coverage he wants Jalen to Air it Out deep. There is a reason why Jalen has the highest depth of targets. It’s not complicated and Nick never has built in hot reads into the office he relies on Jalen being super man
Who on the Eagles' offense was calling the protection last season? Hurts? Kelce?
This lil worrying as Jalens my keeper qb and guiotine qb. Tush push tds helped bunch last year
I believe alot will disappear with Moore as play caller Herbert was really good vs the blitz last season
Interesting that those first two hot blitzes you showed Jalen failed to make the "hot read" and threw away from the Blitz. In both instances the receiver made the read and broke off the route, but Jalen never even looked that way and instead threw into the coverage.
On those long bombs vs the Blitz the Oline successfully blocked it up. That's what gave him the time to go deep. And Hurts really isn't that good of a passer. Maybe the call should be, If you see man coverage run. That's what he does best.
And those times where there was no hot receiver it was Hurts who failed to read the blitz and adjust. The OC doesn't know they're going to blitz when he sends the play in. He should have an idea from game film but the QB sees the alignment by the defense and reads who the blitzer is and adjusts. Why do some QBs get no scrutiny? "It's the receiver's fault." When clearly the ball was under-thrown. "It's the OC's fault." When clearly Hurts made the wrong read. The hot read, was to the left, where the free rusher came from, and was wide open.
Moore is going to bring out the best in him
Kellen Moore is gonna Cooke up go routes and curls routes with drags over the middle that’s all his damn offense is 😂
The issue with jalen struggling with the blitz was the play calling I’m not saying it’s all on the play calling but the majority of it was the eagles never did passing plays across the middle of the field so it was probably harder for him to find any open options cause the open part of the field in the middle was never being used and the eagles offense was just predictable last year😂😂😂
Ahh nah we got sum for that this year watch and see. :)
Yeah man most of it was scheme tho. We were still 10-1
Does that matter when the year ends in shambles and THEN the team gets embarrassed in the playoffs
I feel like the eagles this year were kind of like the 2019 Ravens. Won a lot of games off gimmicky shit, but couldn’t get it done in the playoffs when it mattered. I feel like that team should honestly abandon a lot of the unorthodox shit they do and try to get more in line with the more modern offenses in the league. That doesn’t mean abandoning your identity, but sirriani needs to learn to incorporate pre snap motion and also give hurts more freedom to adjust the offense pre snap. Hurts has a ton of issues but he’s proven to be a good leader. So I don’t see why they wouldn’t let him take full control of the offense
@@ChrisSmith-tu9bu yes cuz coaching was the literal down fall lmao like jalen was hurt all season and our oc still put him in shotgun to throw screens or get him blitzed every time
@@sob_meen I mean Jalen is a limited QB regardless of OC
You didn't touch on the lack of the run game. The Eagles were successful in the 22 season and the early part of last season when the ran the ball. They seemed to become allergic to the run game early and began to rely on "the big play" that they had success with in '22. As you stated, the were very predictable, painfully predictable. The fact that they didn't make any adjustments at all, week after week, was very hard to watch.