In the 2022 regular season, the Philadelphia Eagles finished sixth in Defensive DVOA, and first against the pass. They had a historic time in which four different players (Haason Reddick, Javon Hargrave, Josh Sweat, and Brandon Graham) had at least 11 sacks. Darius Slay and James Bradberry may have been the league’s best cornerback duo, and new additions like Reddick and C.J. Gardner-Johnson had (and are having) career years. And they completely decimated the New York Giants’ offense in Philly’s 38-7 divisional-round thrashing.
That would seem to point to the idea that Jonathan Gannon, who has run the Eagles’ defense over the last two seasons, it pretty good at his job. But as tends to be the case with sports radio in that particular environment, there are going to be inevitable detractors, no matter how well things are going.
