Diante Lee

I would say the wildcard game against the Packers was when I really kind of felt like, man, it feels like Philadelphia is playing at a different rate of speed

than the other teams in the playoffs.

And when you watch Seattle, especially on defense, and I would say in the run game today as well against San Francisco, it just looks like they are moving at a different gear, right?

Their recognition of what their opponents are trying to do and their ability to take advantage of it happens instantly, even when things go wrong, right?

When you're forcing turnovers on a completion after the guy gets past the chains, it looks like San Francisco is starting to...

build a little bit of momentum in the first quarter, you immediately get a strip, right?

And you get a forced turnover that ends up putting you up, you know, a few more points.

You have Brock Purdy out there scrambling around, trying his best to get away from the pass rush, and still it's closing in.

Then you have him trying to operate with an structure from the pocket, and guys aren't open.

And in that sense, it feels very reminiscent to last year's playoff run from Philadelphia, where it feels like they are just pulling all the right levers at exactly the right time,

You calling Mike McDonald this generation's big Fangio is very fitting, I think.

And I think they go about it a little bit differently.

Like, I think that big Fangio, for all of his success, he gets out of split safety stuff.

At the end of the day, he's kind of like a boilerplate defensive coordinator, right?

Like he's going to do whatever he thinks is going to take away an offense's best look.

I think with Mike McDonald, there's almost more like, I don't want to call it a rigid adherence, but I do think that there is just like a different level of belief that they can stop the run out of these split safety shells.

And I think it was borne out in today's game against the 49ers.

They don't have to get in the base because of what Eamon Warrior gives you.

When they do get in the base, all that really means is that they have another bully in the box, right?

They look so much bigger, so much tougher, so much more physical than San Francisco between the tackles.