Go Birds! Postgame Chapter 2: Eliot’s favorite defensive stat ever
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🗓️ 31 October 2022
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Don’t have time to listen to the full postgame pod from the Eagles win over the Pittsburgh Steelers? Check out the portion of the pod where James Seltzer and Eliot Shorr-Parks talk about the Eagles’ incredibly impressive run on the defensive side of the ball with forcing turnovers.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the GoBirds podcast. |
| 0:07.4 | The thing I want to mention and we saw it again yesterday a couple more times. |
| 0:11.1 | Like every year, every year, if you want to look at a stat and the best teams in football |
| 0:18.2 | are always the best teams in that stat, it's turnover differential. |
| 0:22.8 | They are a plus 14. |
| 0:24.6 | Yeah, they're averaging more than two turnovers per game over their competition. |
| 0:31.0 | And obviously part of that is Jalen and the offense is a big part. |
| 0:35.0 | Yeah, a big part of it. |
| 0:36.0 | A big turnovers instead of a game that's unbelievable job the way they protect the football, |
| 0:39.6 | but it's also coinciding with a defense that is opportunistic that takes the ball away |
| 0:45.9 | that forces turnovers that gets in there. |
| 0:48.4 | Like this is the type of thing. |
| 0:53.2 | Like this is the exact type of defense you want paired with this offense. |
| 0:56.8 | Like it's we are talking about the offense and we should. |
| 0:59.2 | But man, if this defense and again, I know there's some luck involved with turnovers and all that, |
| 1:02.8 | but a lot of the turnovers they have, yes, there are a few back quarterback decisions on, |
| 1:06.0 | but a lot of it just feels forced. |
| 1:07.6 | A lot of it's them making these plays happen. |
| 1:10.2 | Well, a couple things. |
| 1:11.6 | One, like my new favorite stat, I like want to get it on a sweatshirt or something. |
| 1:16.4 | Is the Eagles so far this season have forced 16 turnovers and allowed 15 touchdowns. |
| 1:23.2 | That's amazing. |
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