Diante Lee

We also had opportunities where we could have been aggressive, but we trusted that Josh Jacobs could handle the heaviest load on our offense.

And we ran behind him in our young offensive line.

And we trusted those guys, maybe in instances where we knew we were going to take some criticism for not relentlessly pushing the ball downfield.

So I do think, again, if you're trying to pitch this optimistically...

There are a lot of avenues in which you can look at it and say, hey, what they were doing in Green Bay in a lot of ways, at least for me, I would say personally, it's kind of like the platonic ideal of what you should be doing with Philadelphia's offensive talent, which is spread guys out.

You can get those light boxes to run into.

And then once you do get teams that want to blitz you, that want to play single high, that want to play man coverage, now we can get those deep,

play action concepts over the middle of the field to wide receivers who are going to be running away from defenders because we usually have better guys than defenses due to covering them, right?

I think that in a lot of ways, that is exactly what you should be seeking out.

But I think that brings up something that we haven't really touched on yet.

And what's most important in this

Is this Sean Mannion bringing over Matt LaFleur's offense?

Is this Sean Mannion creating his own hybrid offense based on his time as a player and coach?

Or is this him walking in, Nick Sirianni doing to Sean Mannion what Sean McVay did after Brandon Salew left and he brought in Raheem Morris as a defensive coordinator where you say, Hey, this was our book last year.

Congratulations on the gig.

You figure out what you're going to do out of this playbook and this playbook only and make it work, right?

And if that's the case, then I think you do immediately leave all those optimistic selling points that I gave you.

And you start wondering if it's Nick Sirianni's deal and we're just putting another guy under the headset, how long until we're back to that nightmare scenario where Nick Sirianni feels like, okay, I've got to start talking about how we're going to run the ball.

Now I'm going to start making bigger decisions on third down and in the red zone.

Oh, now we're hearing rumors about Nick Sirianni is making most of the play calls in a game situation, period.