Ralph Vacchiano
NFC East Reporter
They have been trying to put a happy face on their problems for more than a month. They’ve insisted that everything isn’t nearly as bad as it seemed. They’ve clung to the hopes that they’d be able to fix everything before their inevitable march to the Super Bowl.
Yet now, with the NFL playoffs finally beginning, it sure looks like the Philadelphia Eagles are already done.
It’s not just that they were humiliated by the New York Giants, 27-10, in their regular-season finale on Sunday afternoon. Nor is it just that they ended the regular season losing five of their last six games, including the last two to two teams that have combined for a total of 10 wins.
It’s more about how they’ve fallen so far, so fast and so hard. It’s about how they went from looking like one of the best teams in the NFL to playing like one of the worst. This once-powerful team suddenly looks like a team in chaos, incapable of fundamental football, with a collective body language that isn’t exactly screaming out “We’re the defending NFC champs!” They can’t tackle on defense. They can’t move the ball consistently on offense. They are prone to bad mistakes in big spots.
“It f—king sucks the way we’ve played the last six games,” said Eagles center Jason Kelce. “We’ve got a lot to fix. It’s the worst stretch of football since Nick (Sirianni) has been here. And it’s very frustrating.”
There is no doubt about that. And it just keeps getting worse. It was bad enough that they had to pull their starters at halftime on Sunday rather than risk their health in a lost cause, but they’re already banged up on top of everything else. They lost receiver A.J. Brown with an injured knee on Sunday in a game where they were already without receiver DeVonta Smith (ankle). And just before he was mercifully pulled from this blowout loss near the end of the first half, quarterback Jalen Hurts injured a finger on his right…
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Publish date : 2024-01-08 03:04:38
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