A.J. Brown’s reunion with the Tennessee Titans is certainly one of many compelling storylines on the docket for Week 13 because the Philadelphia Eagles look to take one other step in the direction of securing the primary seed within the NFC.

Brown has already acknowledged that he looks like “he received” following the draft-day commerce that despatched him from the Titans to the Eagles, although he was referring extra to his private circumstances having subsequently signed a four-year, $100 million with Philadelphia.

The Professional Bowl extensive receiver has a good chance of being a part of a Tremendous Bowl group with the Eagles sitting 10-1 and firmly in charge of the race for the first-round bye on the NFC facet, nevertheless, his former group could also be ideally suited to dealing their hopes a blow.

Whereas quarterback Jalen Hurts has confirmed continued growth as a passer, the side of his play that makes the Eagles’ offense so troublesome to cease is what he can do operating the ball.

In that sense, the Titans do match up effectively with Eagles, as Tennessee enters Week 13 ranked second within the NFL on protection in rush EPA per play, per rbsdm.com.

That doesn’t imply Hurts can’t be profitable towards the Titans’ protection. The Week 9 additional time loss to the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs was one by which the Titans had been undone by a sequence of backbreaking scrambles by Patrick Mahomes, and Hurts has the flexibility to harm them extra constantly together with his legs than the Chiefs’ quarterback.

But if the Titans can at the least have some pleasure containing Hurts, then their offense has an edge that might tilt the competition of their favour.

In stark distinction to the Titans, the Eagles rank twenty ninth in rush EPA on protection, permitting 4.68 yards per rush, the Tenth-most within the NFL.

Put merely, although the Philadelphia protection is a power of the group, a matchup with the Eagles rush protection is one a Tennessee offense constructed across the devastating operating capacity of Derrick Henry ought to relish.

Whereas they now not have Brown to benefit from the play-action alternatives Henry’s runs assist make simpler, the Titans ought to nonetheless be capable to discover success on such passes, the Eagles having struggled to defend the center of the sector at occasions throughout final week’s shootout with the Inexperienced Bay Packers.

By way of good acquisitions just like the commerce for Brown, the expertise edge is closely within the Eagles’ favor. But the Titans have incessantly overcome having inferior expertise underneath head coach Mike Vrabel, and it might be no shock in the event that they discovered a option to maximize the benefits they do have to tug off an upset at Lincoln Monetary Area.