Defensive formation on 3rd and 16 in Eagles game.

Elvis said

I don't disagree that he called a good game generally. But it's the few situational back breakers that are and always have been the problem with DA. He's not great at those at times and it's a lot of the same situations repeating themselves. He doesn't seem to learn from them.

And I don't want anyone to get the idea that I'm putting this all on this single call by DA, I am not. I think the loss of McCoy was FAR more impactful than this one play in today's loss. But it was a bad call any way you look at it and it came at the worst time possible.

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That's fair and I think it's because he's aggressive. Sometimes it costs him, but overall his defenses are very good and don't give up a lot of points. It's certainly good enough to win a lot of games if you have even a solid offensive performance. And, it's not unusual for even very good coaches to have faults that they are stubborn about. Payton, for instance, would abandon the run and get "too cute" at times.

And I do have issues with DA not having good situational awareness when managing games overall so I guess it's not surprising that sometimes he goes off the rails in situational defense.