Daily News | Eagles vs. Giants predictions: Our beat writers make their picks for the NFC divisional round
The wild-card weekend provided a valuable lesson for the Eagles as they enjoyed their first-round bye.
The Eagles took advantage of the Giants’ steady diet of man coverage with a single-high safety with deep outside targets to A.J. Brown and DeVonta Smith. Since then, Giants defensive coordinator Wink Martindale has seemingly ripped that page out of his playbook and played mostly quarters zone coverage against Minnesota last weekend. After leading the NFL in blitz percentage in the regular season, Martindale only sent extra rushers on six of Kirk Cousins’ 39 dropbacks as well.
One trickle-down effect will be Dallas Goedert’s role in wrangling extra rushers. The Giants’ linebacking corps is shaky and the defense has struggled with tight ends all season. If Goedert isn’t held in for max protect too often, he should have a big game.On the other side of the ball, the Eagles should be in a good spot.
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