Ryan Paganetti

How do we weigh that together? And he just does it in the moment.

It isn't this guy was the best player in the league.

Like some of that does weigh into it probably, of course, as you're kind of stacking them out at a certain point.

But it isn't, well, this guy has to earn his way up.

Like, no, like if dude's playing good, they put him in there.

I think that makes it more honest, and it isn't like, oh, well, I'm afraid of what they're going to say on the internet or whatever.

Fine, I guess.

Carson Wentz? Drew Locke? Drew Locke looks like, granted, he got the win.

Well, you know, it's hard to say that you've spotted a trend through four quarters of football, right? We've only played one week, so I don't think you can have a trend really come up anywhere after one week of football.

But analyst Ryan Paganetti said that he thinks he's on to something right here.

And the kryptonite for defenses that play too high safeties might be two back formations.

And the league... just ran more two-back formations in an opening week than it has in a decade.

But we got more quarterbacks under center than before.

And analyst Ryan Paganetti says that this league was using two back alignments in week one at the highest rate of play in a decade.

And when I think about coaches... who can really do damage to other defenses with two running backs or a running back and a fullback.

And this is why use check is on the team.

you know, it's hard to say that you've spotted a trend through four quarters of football, right? We've only played one week, so I don't think you can have a trend really come up anywhere after one week of football.

But analyst Ryan Paganetti said that he thinks he's on to something right here.

And the kryptonite for defenses that play two high safeties might be two back formations.

And the league... just ran more two-back formations in an opening week than it has in a decade.

The run game was underwhelming, aside from Saquon Barkley's lone explosive carry, a 42-yard run on third and two.

A chart posted on X from Ryan Paganetti, a former Eagles assistant coach, had the Eagles with the worst combination of runs of four yards or more versus runs for no gain or less.

Mannion didn't sound concerned.

They got us on one early.

I like that signing before this trend was even sort of revealing itself.

Analyst Ryan Paganetti spotted something else.

And I thought that this was interesting.

And this definitely gets inside the dorky aspect of football.

So there is value to be found in the two backs.

With fullbacks, tight ends, and additional running backs all capable of creating these looks, formation with two backs in the backfield could become an increasingly important answer to the league's too high safety structure.

Again, Ryan Paganetti came up with this.

He is a deep analyst guy.

So look it up.

Somebody by the name of Ryan Paganetti, he was on X and he said, placing a second offset set of yellow uprights directly behind the real ones.

Yeah, it's pretty good.

In windy conditions, even the orange streamers on the video board appear to point in the opposite direction from those atop the physical uprights, making the illusion even more disorienting.