One name you didn't hear much from last night. Julius Peppers.

There's a reason for that. Eagles targeted Peppers early and often. But not in the traditional "zone-read" way. In a packaged play we'll talk more about later, and we pointed out last week, we are going to run a sweep read to the top of the screen. Herremans and Kelce will pull on this play, but we stretch the field horizontally by having Desean run an end-around

Peppers is left unblocked on the play and freezes on Foles (but he doesn't have the ball):

Herremans and Kelce execute their blocks for a nice hole for McCoy. Peppers on the other hand, was not touched by an Eagles and had zero impact on the play:

We run the same play a little later. Sweep read to the top with Kelce and Herremans pulling, Jackson on an end around. This time Foles keeps, Peppers is again unblocked bites on the run fake. This signals Foles to flip it out to Desean.

Desean gets it with blocks in front of him. I originally thought he would score on this play, and he might have if he took it to the sidelines. Nice gain nonetheless:

Another play we'll highlight more of later was the split zone with a sift block. On this play, Peters will leave Peppers initially unblocked as he immediately releases to the LB. Casey is going to come across on the sift block:

Casey executes a fine block on Peppers, and Peters engages his man on the second level:

and here's the hole for McCoy:

One more. On this play, we flat out don't block Peppers on a straight forward run right. By leaving Peppers unblocked, we gain a blocker on the playside which frees Kelce to get to the second-level immediately:

Huge hole for McCoy:

Kelce hat-on-hat with Briggs:

Here's another look showing how the Eagles gain a blocker on the play-side by leaving Peppers unblocked. Celek and Peters downblock on one DR, Mathis on another, Kelce is free, and Herremans takes the LDE:

Just to be fair, and not to just pick on Julius Peppers, it was a bad day all around for the Bears run defense. Here Peters gets up on Briggs lap, but Briggs stays off the block:

Briggs thinks Lesean is going to cut it outside. So he completely turns around and high-tails it outside tackle:

Pretty much sums up the Bears run D last night: