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Originally Posted by Youngbuck17
No doubt Mahomes is an awesome QB. But the Niners secondary is below average, which worked right into Mahome's and Reid's tendencies. Which is why Mahomes passed for over 400 yards in that game. Eagles have the top ranked secondary.
However, I will agree that the Eagles have not faced much in way of elite QB play. They have the roster to defend it, but Gannon (their DC) believes in a bend-don't-break philosophy of zone and soft coverages against the better QBs, which IMO doesn't put his best players in the best position. So in the past two years they have struggled more with the great QBs. But to be fair, who doesn't?
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Top-ranked secondary is something you have to apply context to. Who have you played, and what type of passing attack did they have? That's the context that matters.
Did you have a lot of games against top 10 QBs with good weapons? (That's a no and where the schedule may be masking how dominant the Eagles' D actually was).
Buffalo had the top-ranked secondary coming into the 2021 playoffs and the Chiefs lit them up all night... because it was a soft zone-based coverage that played bend and not break and tried to rely on mistakes by the opposition or pressure by its front to work. Which had worked really well because the Bills played a lot of bad QBs/passings attacks (their entire division was full of them, so six games right there) and backup QBs.
I see some similarities to the Eagles' schedule this year.