Week 8 Fantasy Football Care_Don't care- Why can't the Eagles just be normal-
- 4 years ago
So much happens on any given Sunday in the NFL. It’s hard to keep track of it all. More importantly, it’s quite a lot to decide what we should value as signal and what we should just ignore as noise.
In this space, I’ll go through all that we learned this week and give you the five things I care about coming out of Week 8, along with five things I can’t muster up the emotional energy to care for. Good news for you: We’re going to do this exercise in emotional turmoil every Sunday of the regular season.
5 Things I care about
Eagles: Why can’t you just be normal?
Maybe we just need to give it a week. It’s been a while since all of these parts have been together. We might need to allow some coalescing, some time to get rolling after some long injury absences.
With all that said, it was still wildly frustrating watching the Philadelphia Eagles just flop on opportunity after opportunity against an ultra-generous Dallas Cowboys defense.
The Eagles offensive line suffered some nicks during this game and was once again without Lane Johnson. Young star running back Miles Sanders isn’t back yet. But, Carson Wentz finally got important players like Jalen Reagor and Dallas Goedert to complement emerging top receiver Travis Fulgham and he still turned in an error-filled outing.
The most frustrating part about Wentz in this game is that many of his errors seemed unforced. You could tell he wanted the big play in this game, to light up Dallas like so many passers before him. However, with the wind a factor, too many of his deep throws sailed on him. His second interception, courtesy of rookie corner Trevon Diggs, came on a pass to John Hightower that just wasn’t even close.
That play just perfectly sums it up from a decision-making sense for Wentz. Not only did he force a deep pass, but with Reagor back (and playing well — 3-16-TD) and Fulgham continuing to show the chops of a No. 1 outside receiver (6-78-TD), why is Hightower your choice when he’s struggled to track those shot-plays all season? We know Wentz is better than this. He played solid football against Pittsburgh and Baltimore but was shaky all throughout primetime games against the Giants and Cowboys. That’s tough to explain.
In this space, I’ll go through all that we learned this week and give you the five things I care about coming out of Week 8, along with five things I can’t muster up the emotional energy to care for. Good news for you: We’re going to do this exercise in emotional turmoil every Sunday of the regular season.
5 Things I care about
Eagles: Why can’t you just be normal?
Maybe we just need to give it a week. It’s been a while since all of these parts have been together. We might need to allow some coalescing, some time to get rolling after some long injury absences.
With all that said, it was still wildly frustrating watching the Philadelphia Eagles just flop on opportunity after opportunity against an ultra-generous Dallas Cowboys defense.
The Eagles offensive line suffered some nicks during this game and was once again without Lane Johnson. Young star running back Miles Sanders isn’t back yet. But, Carson Wentz finally got important players like Jalen Reagor and Dallas Goedert to complement emerging top receiver Travis Fulgham and he still turned in an error-filled outing.
The most frustrating part about Wentz in this game is that many of his errors seemed unforced. You could tell he wanted the big play in this game, to light up Dallas like so many passers before him. However, with the wind a factor, too many of his deep throws sailed on him. His second interception, courtesy of rookie corner Trevon Diggs, came on a pass to John Hightower that just wasn’t even close.
That play just perfectly sums it up from a decision-making sense for Wentz. Not only did he force a deep pass, but with Reagor back (and playing well — 3-16-TD) and Fulgham continuing to show the chops of a No. 1 outside receiver (6-78-TD), why is Hightower your choice when he’s struggled to track those shot-plays all season? We know Wentz is better than this. He played solid football against Pittsburgh and Baltimore but was shaky all throughout primetime games against the Giants and Cowboys. That’s tough to explain.