The Eagles Staple Red Zone Call

Friday night we got another look at the Eagles staple red zone call. We've covered it many times on ChipWagon here, here, here, and here. 

 

Courtesy of the Eagles Television Network we got a great view of this play from the sky. 

This play also shows good creative use of Damaris Johnson. I am not confident he makes the team this year but it is nice to see them using him in creative ways here in the preseason. If you follow one of the earlier links you'll see how we used this play against the Cardinals with Desean Jackson featured in the backfield.

Those familiar to this blog will recognize this play right away. It's the mesh concept combined with a wheel route out of the backfield. The idea is to create traffic underneath and hopefully someone comes free on the crossing routes. The key on this play is the matchup that Damaris Johnson is going to draw against an outside linebacker. This should be a matchup under any circumstance but when you consider how much open field he has to cover on Damaris, there is no chance. 

As the play develops you'll see the rub underneath hindering the OLBs coverage ability even more:

As Sanchez releases the ball you see Damaris has a path to the end zone all to himself:

For an easy TD:

As we've shown, Chip has combined the same concepts a number of different ways with different personnel as a great way to beat man coverage all over the field.