In their Week 11 win over the Washington Commanders, the Philadelphia Eagles played 71 snaps on offense and 66 on defense. Let’s jump right into the quick counts and some notes.

Quarterback

• 71 photos: Jalen hurting

Notes: Watching live, it felt like Hurts had opportunities to throw to open receivers, but the ball just wasn’t coming out. I’ll say too much here until I have more time to fully digest his play, but my first thought is that he left a number of plays on the field.

Run back

• 58 photos: Saquon Barkley

• 13 photos: Kenny Gainwell

• 1 click: Reed Blankenship

Notes: Barkley is great, blah blah blah. Let’s talk about the three consecutive Kenny Gainwell runs of 14, 13 and 7 yards. Look at these holes, lol:

The Eagles rushed those runs, so Cam Jurgens felt 13-year pro Bobby Wagner couldn’t get into the right defensive look in time before the Eagles got the snapoff.

“A lot of credit for Bobby Wagner,” Jurgens said. “I mean, he’s a smart, experienced linebacker, and if you give him a different look and not let him sit there and decipher what we’re in, that helps us. I thought he did a lot of good things on their end, which gets them into really good plays.”

And of course, if you see Blankenship’s name on offense in the snap count post, it will usually be a win, because it means the Eagles were in “win formation.”

Wide receiver

• 69 snaps: AJ Brown

• 63 photos: DeVonta Smith

• 29 photos: Jahan Dotson

• 13 photos: Johnny Wilson

• 6 photos: Ainias Smith

Notes: It was a rare Eagles victory in which Brown and Smith didn’t really do anything special. They combined for 9 catches on 14 targets for 94 yards and no TDs. They also met on a mesh concept on third down in the red zone.

Brown and Smith were both open at times and Hurts didn’t see them or misfired on throws that could have been productive gains.

Tight end

• 63 photos: Dallas Goedert

• 37 photos: Grant Calcaterra

• 3 snaps: CJ Uzomah

Notes: Hurts was efficient when passing to Goedert, connecting to complete all five goals that went Goedert’s way. On Goedert’s longest gain of the match, he carelessly held the ball and had it knocked out, but Calcaterra was there to save it on the recovery, which was one of the biggest plays of the match.

Offensive line

• 71 photos each: Jordan Mailata, Cam Jurgens, Mekhi Becton and Lane Johnson

• 63 photos: Landon Dickerson

• 8 photos: Tyler Steen

Notes: Dickerson slowly limped off the field after being injured in a pile-up. He missed the rest of that drive, but got back into the game on the next drive. He said after the game that he had been shot in the knee.

Becton had a great block on Barkley’s first TD run:

Jurgens had a double pancake during Barkley’s second TD run:

It took the line a while to get the hasty attack on track, but Dickerson said it got going after they made advance adjustments to the commander’s plan.

Edge defenders

• 45 photos: Josh Sweat

• 33 photos: Nolan Smith

• 32 photos: Brandon Graham

• 14 snaps: Bryce Huff

Notes: Jalyx Hunt didn’t play any defensive snaps after beating Huff against the Cowboys last Sunday.

Sweat, Smith and Graham all had a sack. Sweat now has six sacks this season and is on his way to ten. Smith has 3.5 and Graham has 2.5.

Internal defense line

• 66 photos: Jalen Carter

• 26 photos: Jordan Davis

• 22 photos: Milton Williams

• 20 photos: Moro Ojomo

• 6 photos: Thomas Booker

Notes: Carter played every defensive snap. Fletcher Cox played a ton of snaps during his Eagles career, but he never played 100% of the snaps in any game, going back at least to 2015 when snap count data became available. There have been questions about Carter’s staying power, particularly when he seemed overly gassed at Georgia’s pro day ahead of the 2023 draft, and at times late in the 2023 season when his production dipped. But he was a beast for all four quarters. Thursday night he put many of those worries to bed, especially during a short week of rest.

I mean, he did snow angels after his third-down tackle for loss prior to the Commanders’ botched “go for it” attempt on 4th-and-2 in the fourth quarter. As we all know, snow angels = good staying power.

Linebacker

• 66 photos: Zack Baun

• 63 photos: Nakobe Dean

Notes: Baun had 14 tackles and was all over the field, but I wanted to show the tackle Nakobe Dean made in the open field against Jayden Daniels.

That’s hard to play in space.

Cornerback and safety

• 66 photos: Quinyon Mitchell, Darius Slay, Reed Blankenship and Chauncey Gardner-Johnson

• 64 photos: Cooper DeJean

• 4 snaps: Avonte Maddox

• 1 click: Sydney Brown

Notes: As we noted in our Eagles-Commanders preview, Terry McLaurin has been a thorn in the Eagles’ side for years and remains by far their best skill player. McLaurin was cleared by Mitchell.

Mitchell doesn’t have interception numbers (they will come eventually), but he’s still a worthy candidate for Defensive Rookie of the Year honors.

After a season with ups and downs in 2023, Blankenship has had a very strong season. He had 10 tackles, an INT and a pass breakup. That INT was his third of the season.

Three stars 🤩

I’ve always enjoyed the hockey tradition of awarding “stars” to each of the top three players in a game, so let’s apply that to Eagles games.⭐⭐⭐: DT Jalen Carter🌟🌟: RB Saquon Barkley✨: CB Quinyon Mitchell

Eagles match ball 🏈

🏈: DT Jalen Carter

Seasonal game balls

1. Week 1, vs. Packers: Saquon Barkley
2. Week 2, at Falcons: Nobody
3. Week 3, at Saints: Vic Fangio
4. Week 4, at Buccaneers: Saquon Barkley
5. Week 5: DEW
6. Week 6, vs. Browns: Brandon Graham
7. Week 7, at Giants: Saquon Barkley
8. Week 8, at Bengals: Fred Johnson
9. Week 9, vs. Jaguars: Nakobe Dean
10. Week 10, at Cowboys: Nick Sirianni
11. Week 11, vs. Commanders: Jalen Carter

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