Defensive formation on 3rd and 16 in Eagles game.

3rd and 15+ in this situation usually warrants soft zone coverage no matter who the quarterback.

When an offense still has yet to cross midfield, there's 80 seconds left, you play to force them into 4th down.

The fact that it was Hurts, who has shown in his career that he can't sit back in the pocket and deliver into coverage, makes it worse. We had contained incredibly well all game. The fundamental playcall is to have your ends play to contain and you sot back in soft zone.

Leaving yourself vulnerable to rub routes in that situation is just bad. It's the only way they can get chunk yards.

I agree you usually play zone. But I don't have a problem with mixing it up from time to time to keep the QB guessing. And in this case, I think the play call probably works if Lattimore and Harris don't run into each other. Harris likely holds Goddard to a short game or Howden comes up to make the tackle. The execution was a clown show.

And it wasn't a rub route. The DBs just inexplicably ran into each other.