Warning! This is going to be a long one. Primarily because it is perhaps my favorite foundational running play that the Eagles run. What you will see in this post is how the Eagles take one of the oldest plays in football, execute it to near perfection and then continue to layer different concepts on top of it to keep defensive players guessing.

Before we dive deep in with lots of screenshots, one of the other reasons the Eagles sweep is one of my favorite plays is because it is so damned pretty. Some people love to see the long bomb, some love the one-handed catch, some love the big hit over the middle. Me? I love to see big ass offensive lineman get down the field and take out linebackers and safeties. In short, this is why I love the sweep and this is why I love Jason Kelce:
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Jul 24, 2015 9:23:15 AM
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James Casey,
Jason Kelce,
Jason Peters,
Lane Johnson,
Lesean McCoy,
Michael Vick,
Packaged Plays,
Read Option,
Sweep Read,
Todd Herremans,
Zach Ertz
In Parts 8 and 9 we highlighted how the Eagles started to run more plays under center in order to not tip their hand on the direction of the inside zone playside. It will be interesting to see how much this continues in 2015 now that we’ve had a complete overhaul of our RB corps. As pointed out by Sheil Kapadia:
According to ESPN Stats and Information, Murray is second among free-agent running backs in yards-per-rush out of the shotgun over the last two seasons, behind only new backfield partner Ryan Mathews.

However, in 2013 and 2014 one of the Eagles very favorite plays is the split zone. The split zone is a very common variation on the inside zone that many different teams run. The general idea is to run inside zone with your 5 OL to the playside. This will often involve leaving the backside edge defender unblocked like we do in our inside zone from the Shotgun formation. However, on this play, the QB does not “block” the edge defender because he’s under center and will turn his back to the defense. This defender now becomes the assignment for the H-back who starts lined up on the opposite of the formation. Let’s take a look at a few examples.
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The Eagles got the running game going again yesterday. I wish there was some new wrinkle or new scheme change they made that allowed them to jump start the running game. However, their success yesterday came down to one thing: Execution. Quite simply the Eagles did a much better job up front and as a result, McCoy looked a lot more like the 2013 version. In addition to great OL play in the run game, the Eagles receiving corps put forth an excellent day blocking downfield which lead to some of McCoy and Sproles' bigger runs. But by and large, this was the same scheme and same play calls. Inside zone, outside zone, sweep read and power play. Let's have a look at a few.

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Ryan has given you a beautiful piece on Brent Celek. With that in mind, here's more on the Eagle TEs and how Chip uses them. As you might expect, I'm more interested in blocking than that other stuff.
We'll start with a first quarter play featuring Zack Ertz.

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David
Oct 18, 2014 4:35:12 PM
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Brent Celek,
Inside Zone,
James Casey,
Jordan Matthews,
Nick Foles,
Offense,
Offensive Line,
Packaged Plays,
Tight Ends,
Zach Ertz
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