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Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Breakdown: Eagles penalties

After two weeks, the Eagles have accumulated 16 penalties for 121 yards.

Only seven NFL teams have been called for more.

Each week, we'll take a look at the Eagles' penalty breakdown for the season. What players are constantly costing the Eagles? Is it mainly the offense, defense or special teams? And so on.

This is the first time so I didn't get too in-depth. It's just meant to take a quick look at the penalties. If there is something more specific you'd like to see, e-mail me or comment below.

Here are the numbers after the first two weeks.

Number of penalties

Jason Peters - 2
DeSean Jackson - 2
Nick Cole - 2
Stacy Andrews - 2
Juqua Parker - 1
Quintin Demps - 1
Sean Jones - 1
Chris Clemons - 1
Joselio Hanson - 1
Leonard Weaver - 1
Tracy White - 1

Note: The Eagles' defense was called for an offsides in Week 1, but it was not attributed to any one player. Also, penalties that were declined were not included in the breakdown.

Penalty yards

D. Jackson - 20
Parker - 15
Demps - 15
Clemons - 11
Peters - 10
Andrews - 10
Cole - 10
Jones - 10
White - 6
Hanson - 5
Weaver - 3

By unit

Offense - 8 for 50
Defense - 2 for 21
Special teams - 6 for 50

Posted by Sheil Kapadia @ 8:12 AM  Permalink | 18 comments
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Posted 08:34 AM, 09/23/2009
gaitherfan
Are we sure this is correct? I remember Clemons with ST calls in both games.
Posted 08:43 AM, 09/23/2009
skapadia
Gaitherfan -- Clemons was actually whistled for two 15 yarders against the Saints. But on the second one, Weaver was also guilty of an illegal block in the back. New Orleans declined the Clemons penalty and accepted the Weaver one, so he got lucky there. -- SK
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Posted 10:36 AM, 09/23/2009
mcat13
This doesn't count Clemmons OBVIOUS holding on Deshawn's punt return week one....we got a way with that mess. Of course the refs gave it back on the non-hold call before the half Sunday
Posted 01:00 PM, 09/23/2009
psuwelsh
Clemons was tagged for at least 2 on Sunday....can we get an audit or this data!
Posted 01:00 PM, 09/23/2009
psuwelsh
Clemons was tagged for at least 2 on Sunday....can we get an audit or this data!
Posted 01:14 PM, 09/23/2009
davew31
Clemons was tagged for 2 but only one was accepted.
Posted 01:19 PM, 09/23/2009
daveH
if Chirs Clemons was flagged on a penalty in the woods & no one was ther ... did he really committ the penalty? i say he did; so dont rob him of his credit, but since they chose weaver's penalty, he doesnt get the credit on penealty yards
Posted 01:19 PM, 09/23/2009
daveH
if Chirs Clemons was flagged on a penalty in the woods & no one was ther ... did he really committ the penalty? i say he did; so dont rob him of his credit, but since they chose weaver's penalty, he doesnt get the credit on penealty yards
Posted 02:55 PM, 09/23/2009
Warhound
Taken or declined - they are still data.
Posted 02:55 PM, 09/23/2009
Warhound
Taken or declined - they are still data.
Posted 02:56 PM, 09/23/2009
borntosuffer
I wonder if the offensive line will have trouble adjusting to having Vick call some plays now. It was mentioned that Kolb's cadence presented some difficulties to the o-line as it was different than McNabb's.
Posted 03:37 PM, 09/23/2009
ted_ocmd
I like this idea of making individuals accountable. I'm not sure I would find this on the Eagles website.
Posted 03:47 PM, 09/23/2009
jimmyeagles
Jason Peters 2 penalties were both in Week 1. This lead to the thought that it would be good to see a breakdown of penalties from the most recent game and penalties for the full season. A week by week breakdown would be nice but I'm sure you have better things to do. This is great information! I'm sure Andy hates that it's available to the fanbase.
Posted 04:02 PM, 09/23/2009
jimmyeagles
This is great stuff, Sheil. Thanks for putting this together. The numbers are off slightly. The breakdown by Units total 121 yards while the breakdown by individuals total 124 yards. In looking this over, I also remembered the 5-yard penalty on the punt in the second half Sunday that actually lead to a much larger differential in field position for the Saints. I think they picked up 27 yards when the Birds kicked again. The penalty was a 5-yarder. Things like that are not reflected here. Lucky for the offending player, I guess. Again, this is awesome, Sheil.
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