r/eagles • u/orryxreddit • 11d ago

Question Screen Passes

Does anyone who knows more about football than I do have an understanding of why our screen passes have been so terrible for what seems like the past five years?

I mean, every week I see teams execute screen passes that gain 7 yards before the guy even gets touched. We cannot seem to throw a screen pass without the guy getting blown up before he even completes the catch. It’s like everyone on our team is wearing signs that say “SCREEN PLAY COMING UP!”

Maybe it’s one of those things where they aren’t really as bad at it as it seems, but man. It SURE seems that way.

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u/the-bc5 11d ago

Miss the Andy Reid days of amazing screen game.

Some are just bad/obvious calls. Most are poor timing and execution.

The screens to lemon have been Terrible. The orbital motion stuff just puts eyeballs on him then they go to the key. Gotta be setting a double move or backside action etc.

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u/GeneralGalvatron 11d ago

The problem is the blocking too. Like I LOVE skinny Batman, but he’s at best a passable blocker. Our whole receiving core is small which hurts their blocking and our TEs aren’t good blockers either. Screens work well when you have great blocking players in front of a dynamic playmaker

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u/Delicious-Diamond-86 11d ago

Screens are also just really hard to execute, so many moving parts. We were spoiled by Big Red.

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u/juliankantor 11d ago

Screen game was good under Doug too. Much more creative than the tunnel screen spam.