Preseason football isn’t always reflective of regular season football but that doesn’t mean we can’t learn anything. Last season, C.J.
Stroud looked like the lights were too bright for him in his first preseason game before having one of the best rookie seasons ever. But if you continued watching the Texans quarterback in the preseason, you could see Stroud getting more comfortable in each game. Like with any piece of evidence, you must look at the larger sample and add context, remembering that the game is simpler and there aren’t many snaps to use to reach conclusions.
Advertisement With that in mind, we can come up with some theories. Here are 10 things I think I learned from the 2024 preseason: 1. Eagles offense no longer stale The Eagles hired offensive coordinator Kellen Moore because head coach Nick Sirianni thought the offense got stale .
They needed someone to inject new life into the playbook, but Moore might have completely rewritten it. The Eagles were dead last in motion usage in 2023. I don’t have preseason motion stats, but it appears they used motion on most of their snaps and were using it creatively.
Moore used motion to create angles on run blocks and to get into certain pass concepts from unusual looks. Preseason Week 2, 7:05 remaining in the first quarter, first-and-10 On this play from the Eagles’ second preseason game, tight end E.J.
Jenkins motioned across the formation to become an “escort” block of the running swing as part of a four-.