Fortune favors the daring

Over the primary three seasons of Nick Sirianni’s head teaching profession, no coach was extra desirous to go for it on fourth down than Sirianni. The Eagles began the fourth down revolution with Doug Pederson, and continued it with Sirianni.

Till this 12 months. This season, Sirianni is center of the pack in go price, and the chief is Dan Quinn.

If we break the season, together with playoffs, into quarters (excluding the ultimate week which was meaningless for the Eagles), we see that Quinn hasn’t been shy recently, whereas Sirianni has gotten conservative.

Go For It Rating

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WAS GFI

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1-4

eighth

seventh

5-8

seventh

tenth

9-12

twenty seventh

fifteenth

13-16

18th

1st

Subject targets should not going to beat the Commanders. They didn’t in December with Kenny Pickett at QB, and if Jalen Hurts can’t run there isn’t a lot of a distinction between the 2 QBs.

On the one hand, if Hurts isn’t full go along with his knee or finger, that would simply push Sirianni to remain conservative. However alternatively, Jake Elliott’s struggles could be a profit right here and power Sirianni to get aggressive. And any struggles by Hurts would even be a purpose to go for it. In December, the Eagles had a 4th and 5 from the Commanders’ 6 yard line, up 21-14. Sirianni ought to have stored his offense on the sphere, however he kicked a FG as an alternative.

The Eagles have a number of benefits over the Commanders. None of them could matter if one coach is a cowardly drawback and the opposite is an aggressive benefit.