The Eagles' defensive tackles came into Sunday night with a plan: the second Jared Goff starts winding up to throw, get your hands up.
They picked up on the Detroit quarterback's tendency to throw the ball at a tighter angle as they were studying up on film and preparing for the high-powered Lions all week, and incorporated pass deflection drills into their practices with that in mind.
It was a smaller detail to their opponent that they could exploit, Jordan Davis, his fellow interior linemen, and the coaches thought. They had the skill for it, and the size, too.
"I'm 6'6", not for no reason," Davis said from his locker late Sunday night.
And he and the Eagles had it.
Davis' outstretched arm batted away a liner of a pass over the middle from Goff on Detroit's first possession Sunday n

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