Daily News | Jonathan Gannon on his Eagles defense giving up 35 points in Detroit: ‘We need to improve quick, and we will’
By the time Jonathan Gannon got to the tunnel at Ford Field, he knew his work would be cut out for him the following week., his defense surrendered 35 points thanks to a mixture of poor tackling, missed assignments, and head-scratching player usage.
“I thought we did some good things, but 35 points is not good enough,” Gannon added. “... Overall, happy that we won the game, but that is not the standard that we need. We need to improve quick, and we will.” Even when Gardner-Johnson was helping against the run, the Eagles got gashed on several occasions. Detroit often capitalized on the defensive tackles’ aggressiveness with trap plays and exposed the drawbacks that come with playing out of sub packages with lighter boxes.
The 6-foot-6, 336-pound nose tackle was credited with two tackles but was disruptive against the run on multiple occasions. Still, he played just 22 snaps, something Gannon said was a product of the defensive-tackle rotation being so deep. Reddick and Davis, especially, were expected to help the Eagles’ pass rush improve after it finished 31st in sack production last season. The Eagles registered one sack against the Lions — Fletcher Cox and Brandon Graham got to Lions quarterback Jared Goff once because of a fumbled snap.Gannon, who believes pass-rush productivity is about much more than sack production, said he was happy with the pass rush in the opener.
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