NFL Week 12 🏈 Philadelphia Eagles peck away at Cheeseheads

Sunday night's NFC divisional game between the Green Bay Packers vs. Philadelphia Eagles, where the latter played at home at Lincoln Financial Field, showed that the Eagles are strong candidates to be seeded as leaders in the national conference East division, the winning streak in which Philadelphia is focused does not stop, in their last 5 games, they have a balance of 4 wins and 1 loss, while Green Bay continues without finding the north, as they have in their last 5 outings 4 losses and 1 win, which places the Packers without any chance of postseason.

These two franchises have historically faced each other 46 times, Green Bay leads the statistics with 28 wins, while Philadelphia has won 18 games, as for their respective win-loss balances, Philadelphia came into this game with 9 wins and 1 loss, while Green Bay has a negative balance with only 4 wins and 7 losses so far in the regular season, in the following lines I will give you my impressions about the highlights of this game.

The first half of the game was dominated by the home team, both offensively and defensively, but not by Philadelphia's special teams, since their kicker missed the field goal attempt. The first touchdown of the game was scored by the Eaglets, as they know how to do, on the ground, through the rookie running back of 1st year, Kenneth Gainwell, the offensive series of Philadelphia in our opinion were convincing so they got the offense managed to open windows for the quarterback Jalen Hurts to connect this time with the running back, Miles Sanders who pierced the defensive line of Green Bay and scored the 2nd touchdown to put Philadelphia with a score of 13 to 0.

Being down on the scoreboard, Green Bay rethought several offensive schemes through the formations, shotgun, and pistol, which began to hurt Philadelphia's defense, and as a result of their constant tactical and strategic efforts, Green Bay's first touchdown by running back, AJ Dillon, would come. The next offensive series attempted by Philadelphia would be stopped by the Packers' defense, so they had to clear the ball, Green Bay's 2nd touchdown in the 1st quarter came through an 11-yard pass in the red zone from quarterback Aaron Rodgers to his wide receiver Randall Cobb, with this action the 1st quarter had a closed score of 14-13 in favor of Green Bay.

As for the 2nd. As for the 2nd quarter, we think that it was decisive in the development of the rest of the game, since Philadelphia tightened the defense with Blizz attacks on the offense led by Aaron Rodgers, limiting his movements and only allowing him a 23-yard pass that ended in a touchdown thanks to the evasive skills of running back Aaron Jones, It is worth mentioning that the Green Bay kicker missed the field goal attempt, so the Packers had to settle for 6 points, while Philadelphia scored two touchdowns, one at the beginning of the quarter on the ground by running back Miles Sanders and the second by air of 30 yards to wide receiver Quez Watkins, with these actions the 2nd half of the duel had a score of 6 points. With these actions, the second half of the game would close with a favorable score for the Philadelphia Eagles 27 to 20.

Throughout the 3rd quarter, Philadelphia's defense put more pressure on Green Bay's offense. In the third quarter, Philadelphia's defense put more pressure on Green Bay's offense with defensive schemes based on man-to-man zone coverage and also with the cover 2 formation, which would nullify Aaron Rodgers' intentions to throw medium and long-range passes, this strategy was effective for Philadelphia since Green Bay could not throw passes to their receivers and would have to move the ball on the ground, and this option is not perfectly handled by Green Bay, This determined that the Packers could only score a field goal of 29 yards, as far as Philadelphia is concerned their defensive strategy was based on not leaving free spaces in the defensive line and take advantage that Aaron Rodgers by the score against was working under pressure and sense of urgency, to this is added the difficulty he had since the beginning of the game in his right hand (throwing), due to the wear of the defense of the Packers and the excellent ground and air game came the 5th. The 5th touchdown, which was received by wide receiver A.J. Brown, widened the difference in favor of the Eagles 34 to 23.

The last quarter had bad news for the Packers because their quarterback, Aaron Rodgers had to leave the game due to acute discomfort in his throwing hand, so he had to be replaced by the 2nd year rookie drafted in 2020, Jordan Love, who in our opinion did very well, to the point that in his first offensive series ended in a 63-yard touchdown pass that was received by wide receiver Christian Watson, in this quarter we must recognize that the Packers defensively looked better than Philadelphia, who could only score two field goals of 31 and 54 yards respectively, the game would come to an end after Green Bay scored a field goal of 33 yards to leave the final score in favor of Philadelphia 40-33.

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