Embarrassing loss to 49ers leaves Eagles exposed in wide-open NFC race

Ralph Vacchiano

NFC East Reporter

The Philadelphia Eagles spent so much of this season looking like a powerhouse — the kind of team that could beat any opponent any time, anyway they wanted. They looked for a while like they might be unstoppable.

They don’t look that way anymore.

Little by little, over the last month, their flaws have been exposed, and it all came crashing down on them on Sunday at Lincoln Financial Field. They were embarrassed by the San Francisco 49ers 42-19 in yet another game where their once-proud defense was ripped to shreds. They couldn’t tackle. They couldn’t cover. They couldn’t run the ball on offense. They even lost some of their usual cool.

Now, all of a sudden, the NFC race the Eagles were once dominating looks wide open to a handful of teams. And if they don’t beat the Cowboys (9-3) next Sunday in Dallas, the Eagles (10-2) will even be looking up (at least temporarily) in the NFC East.

That has to be alarming, since just a few weeks ago they looked like they were on the fast track to their second straight Super Bowl. 

Now it looks like maybe all that hype was a little premature.

“We didn’t coach good enough. We didn’t play good enough. It’s as simple as that,” Eagles coach Nick Sirianni said. “You don’t come out and play your best game against the guys that they have, it’s going to look like that.”

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That’s true. And to be fair, this is the first time the Eagles have really been blown out since Sirianni’s first season — two long years ago. Also, while they’ve looked very beatable over the past month, this was still only their second loss of the season. They came into this NFC Championship rematch having won five straight games.

But this huge loss to the 49ers (9-3) also can’t just be dismissed as a one-off, because Philly has been flirting with disaster for a while — weeks now. Back on Oct. 29 they came really…

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Publish date : 2023-12-04 02:40:36

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