Eagles running backs coach Duce Staley and offensive line coach Jeff Stoutland are eager to explain how the team’s pitiful output in the run game through two preseason games doesn’t really matter, that they are working on esoteric stuff with their groups, not emphasizing results.
But all that said, if you’ve gained just 115 yards on 45 carries so far, is that esoteric stuff being mastered to the coaches’ satisfaction?
Now that you mention it, ah, no. But they say they’re getting there.
“I know, from the bottom of my heart, that the most important thing about all that is the detail, the departure angle, how we’re surfacing the block – stuff that you see us do out here [in practice] all the time,” Stoutland said, as the team made position coaches available Saturday for interviews for the first time during training camp.