I think this game will see Rapp get a ton of snaps in place of the WILB. Rapp can man up quite well vs most TEs and help that run defense.
Peters at LT is a fat slob. The dude will need help vs a solid rusher. I don't know if we can take advantage but we'll see maybe one of our rotated blindside OLBs can eat him up. The other matchup I like is AD vs either of the Eagles OGs. Both are poor and will require consistent double help.
Raegor looks pretty good and gives them potential for explosive returns. Our punt returns I'm not too worried about but the kick returns... I prefer that our rookie kicker puts that ball out of the endzone.
Lastly the Dallas run game was far scarier to me than the Eagles run game because of the back. This looks like a win for us to me but I agree it'll be tough.
Dont disagree with a lot of what you said but Rapp isnt good in coverage and vs their TEs it's still an advantage for them big time. And dont think Doug Peterson wont be scheming to get those TEs against our LBs because he will. Miles Sanders is no joke but of course hes no Zeke. But they have a far better OC and DC than Dallas. We out schemed Dallas on both sides by a lot, that wont be the case in this game.
I think our secondary matches up very well with Raegor and Djax though I think they'll make some plays, an INT or two would be huge in this game. I dont expect much out of our OLBs to be honest, they didnt play well last game and Lane Johnson will be better than whoever he's lined up against. Wentz is a lot better to me than Dak IMO so I expect him to have a bounce back game. On offense we better run the ball and run it well, because Slay will be matched on Woods, and NRC will be matched on Kupp in the slot. That is two very tough corners. Their defense overall is very good and Cox will give our interior OL trouble, count on that.
IMO we must play a lot better than we did vs Dallas to pull this one out, and we're very capable. It would be huge to start 2-0 vs the top 2 NFC east teams. We need to get pressure on Wentz and I think we will, but I think this comes down to us offensively and how many points we can score vs their defense. Schwartz has always given McVay and Goff issues and if the scheme we run is the same "protect the OL" short passing, roll out, 5 yard dink and dunk stuff I just dont think we'll outscore them. I sure hope McVay opens it up this weekend and doubles Cox inside, and we should be okay.
