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Who replaces Shaq since he is likely to miss this week

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They said Klein was a full participant today, so he'll probably be ready Sunday.  However, I don't think we'll see much of the 3rd LB in this game.  It was noted the other night, that Philly has only ran the ball 35% of their snaps.  We'll likely see a very heavy dose of the nickel/buffalo packages Sunday night, with Bene and Jones.  With the way they run side-to-side anyway, I don't see them doing too much against our front 7 in their run game.  Sproles on those swing passes in the backfield, does worry me a bit.  TD and Kuechly are fast, but he gets to the sideline in a nanosecond.  He's always hurt us with that play.

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I'd prefer to run more nickel based on Philly's style of offense.

Yep. We'll be in nickel all game. Philly doesn't even have a FB on its roster and uses 11(1 RB, 1 TE) or 10(1 RB, 0 TE) personnel 99% of the time.

Bene is his "replacement" and this is probably the perfect game for him to miss unless people are thinking we would be pulling TD or Luke off the field for Shaq. Outside of special teams I wouldn't expect Klein to see the field either.

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They said Klein was a full participant today, so he'll probably be ready Sunday.  However, I don't think we'll see much of the 3rd LB in this game.  It was noted the other night, that Philly has only ran the ball 35% of their snaps.  We'll likely see a very heavy dose of the nickel/buffalo packages Sunday night, with Bene and Jones.  With the way they run side-to-side anyway, I don't see them doing too much against our front 7 in their run game.  Sproles on those swing passes in the backfield, does worry me a bit.  TD and Kuechly are fast, but he gets to the sideline in a nanosecond.  He's always hurt us with that play.

Seems Sproles is being used sparingly due to Murray and Matthews getting the bulk of the work.  By the way the Eagles ran the ball 31 times against the Giants. 

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/players/playerpage/421419/darren-sproles

Sproles was surely a huge pain when he played for the Saints.  I hope he won't be a factor this Sunday.

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