How the Eagles slammed the door on rookie phenom Jayden Daniels

How the Eagles slammed the door on rookie phenom Jayden Daniels at the muse seemed on NBC Sports Philadelphia

Wherever he regarded, his receivers were covered. Wherever his development took him, he accurate couldn’t gain any one originate. Drive after force, the Eagles’ secondary frustrated Jayden Daniels by accurate no longer giving him any easy throws.

The Eagles on Thursday night hounded Daniels into the worst sport of his promising rookie season.

He managed accurate 13 completions and 146 yards with an interception on Washington’s first 10 possessions and though a late landing force padded his numbers fair a small, the Eagles accurate by no plot allowed him to salvage going.

They corralled him into accurate 18 rushing yards and a pair of.6 yards per elevate. Here is a man who used to be averaging over 50 yards per sport and 5.5 yards per elevate per sport coming in.

“An athletic guy that’s won some self belief in direction of the style and he has the flexibility to construct every throw and tuck the ball and high-tail it at any time when he feels needed,” Zach Baun acknowledged. “So it’s a lot to prepare for. However we’ve got the guys on this defense and the tempo on this defense to address it.”

Daniels has been a mountainous-play machine this year, but at any time when he tried to construct a play on third or fourth down, the Eagles overwhelmed him.

On Thursday night on third or fourth down, he used to be 4-for-7 for 27 yards passing with a sack – that’s 19 rep yards on eight slither plays – and when he ran on third or fourth down he used to be 0-for-2 looking to salvage to the sticks, netting accurate two yards on two carries.

Set up all of it together and Daniels averaged accurate 2.1 yards on 10 third or fourth downs. He averaged 7.2 yards on third or fourth downs in the Commanders’ first 10 games.

Total, he accomplished four passes for twenty-four yards to wide receivers with a prolonged gainer of 10 yards.

The Eagles sustain going by strategy of elite wide receivers and so they sustain shutting them down.

Malik Nabers is averaging 81 yards in opposition to everybody else. Had 41 vs. the Eagles.

Ja’Marr Tear is averaging 103 yards in opposition to everybody else. Had 54 vs. the Eagles.

Brian Thomas is averaging 65 yards in opposition to everybody else. Had 22 vs. the Eagles.

CeeDee Lamb is averaging 83 yards in opposition to everybody else. Had 21 vs. the Eagles.

Terry McLaurin is averaging 71 yards in opposition to everybody else. Had 10 vs. the Eagles.

Week after week, Quinyon Mitchell has been shutting down the a form of team’s high guy. Daniels loves throwing to McLaurin. He used to be averaging 6 ½ targets per sport outdated to Thursday night. He got accurate two.

“Terry McLaurin is a hell of a ball player, but we got a 1^st-spherical corner for a reason,” Gardner-Johnson acknowledged. “It’s one other quarterback that didn’t throw downfield, stunning?

“How stunning are our corners? Our corners are doing a hell of a job, our linebackers, our d-line, accurate constant power, so every quarterback we play has been stunning of their very salvage manner and it’s accurate when the ball doesn’t slither back and forth adore you stare weeks prior in opposition to groups they they played. It’s a dazzling mark for our defense as a total.”

“Shoutout to Q and Coop. Bawl-out to (the coaches) for trusting us as a total and working out that right here’s a young neighborhood but they truly feel adore veterans. I don’t mediate the moment is ever too mountainous for them. Having them two in the market makes it simpler for us older guys.”

Daniels made about a plays Thursday night, but a couple early prolonged completions to Austin Ekeler and Brian Robinson were extra the pinnacle end result of omitted tackles than spectacular throws.

By the second half, even those plays had dried up.

As soon as the Eagles’ defense settled in, Daniels had no solutions. Within the future of one stretch, Washington averaged about 18 yards per force over eight possessions.

And on Washington’s desperation 4^th-and-2 early in the fourth quarter with the Eagles up most efficient two substances, Baun stuffed Daniels for no contain at the Eagles’ 26. Four minutes later the Eagles were up 16.

“You obviously prepare for a downside adore that but you by no plot know what they’re going to high-tail,” Baun acknowledged. “He bobbled the snap fair a small bit and he’s a confident guy and he used to be going to elevate it himself after which you’ve accurate got to construct a play.”

Here is a child who’s been lights up the NFL. Vic Fangio’s unit had an resolution for all the pieces the Commanders did.

“Any quarterback that is in the market, that is making plays and scoring substances, you gotta salvage to them and build them depressed,” acknowledged Brandon Graham, who had one amongst the Eagles’ three sacks.

“And I mediate up entrance, we did a dazzling job of that and we stopped the high-tail. Due to the that is one other element, because that can salvage them going. And accurate trusting in when your play comes, accurate slither build it.”

One spirited quantity from Thursday night: Daniels dropped support or ran 42 conditions for 189 yards, which is 4.5 yards per play. Coming into the game, he used to be averaging 7.1 yards per play.

“Our defense is ultimate with awareness stunning now,” Gardner-Johnson acknowledged. “We’re hitting on all cylinders, we’re doing small things after note, you guys stare how exhausting Chop coaches us in certain eventualities. It’s relaxing when per week a fresh player makes a play for the team to gain the game. That fourth-down pause used to be a test for your whole defense.”