Waiting through the Eagles’ bye week was a bummer. To help ease the absence of our favorite 8-1, Super Bowl-bound team, I’ve decided to compile a mini-series that focuses on plays the Eagles run with frequency out of different formations with different personnel and how they’re successful. You can find the previous installations of this series here.
Today I’ll be looking at a play the Eagles have had a lot of success with — the slot-fade. Unlike the three-level stretch play I broke down yesterday, this route is limited to the formations which it can be run from, due to it’s nature, but it is not limited by personnel as far as tight ends/wide receivers/running backs are concerned.