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Eagle Eye: Tough Task For Eagles Offense

On Thursday, I broke down the , so here I want to provide a closer look at Joe Barry’s defense. This is a team that, much like the Atlanta Falcons a couple of weeks ago, deploys a zone-based system that doesn’t look to blitz the quarterback often or run things from a wide variety of different fronts and alignments. Instead, they rely on execution week in and week out to get the job done. So far, it’s worked very well for them. Through three weeks, Washington ranks second in the league in yards (277.3 allowed per game), third in rushing (75.