The Eagles’ Super Bowl victory brought into focus their offense’s extensive use of RPOs — plays that are conceived as runs, but depending on how the defense reacts, can become passes.
Many other offenses already used such concepts, but the Eagles’ success doing it behind two quarterbacks, Carson Wentz and Nick Foles, seems to have made RPOs the hot offensive topic of 2018.
Opposing defenses have spent a lot of time during the offseason scheming how to slow an Eagles attack that generated 79 points and 994 yards in the NFC Championship Game and the Super Bowl, after averaging a healthy 28.