The Dallas Cowboys showed the Philadelphia Eagles may be in trouble with a dominant win, but is Philly really reeling or just in a rut?
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00:00 - Are the Eagles in trouble?
00:01 - A little bit.
00:03 (laughs)
00:04 A little bit, a little bit.
00:05 This is my biggest issue with the Eagles.
00:07 One, their defense is atrocious.
00:09 If you can't stop anybody, it doesn't really matter.
00:12 And the offense isn't operating at the standpoint
00:14 to where they can outscore everyone.
00:17 So if your defense is giving up long, sustained drives
00:20 and giving up touchdowns,
00:21 I think they gave up like 11 touchdowns
00:24 on like 12 drives going back to the same frame game.
00:27 That's absurd.
00:29 And like, I don't think it's ever been done,
00:31 but that's atrocious for your defense to be that bad.
00:34 And then on top of it, the offense isn't operating well
00:37 for whatever reason, whether it be
00:38 they're not being able to run the ball,
00:39 not good play calls, not good play designs.
00:42 I'm very concerned.
00:43 Now, realistically, they can win the next four straight
00:47 and still have the NFC East crown
00:49 and potentially the number one seed if San Fran loses.
00:52 But based on how they played,
00:55 I don't have faith that they're about to just win
00:56 the next four straight.
00:57 They could lose next week or the week after that
00:59 to the Giants.
01:00 So yes, I'm concerned.
01:01 I'm worried.
01:02 It's bad, y'all.
01:03 This is bad.
01:04 - It depends on how you define trouble,
01:06 'cause the Eagles are in still good playoff positioning.
01:09 They're gonna be in the playoffs.
01:10 They have time to fix what ails them right now.
01:13 Look, the 49ers struggled when they had some guys
01:15 out of the lineup and people were wondering
01:17 whether we boasted too much about them
01:19 at the beginning of the season.
01:20 And then they righted the ship.
01:22 We've seen teams have hiccups during a long season
01:25 in the past and recover.
01:27 To me, they gotta get that defense in order.
01:29 And then most importantly on the other side of the ball,
01:32 the health of Jalen Hurts, I think,
01:33 has been an issue for them all year.
01:36 You know, David Carr sort of blew up for his take
01:39 about benching Hurts and Mariota
01:41 because of the extra Parmesan he had in what he said.
01:46 But the substance of Hurts being hurt does in fact matter
01:50 because one element the Eagles are missing from their game
01:52 that they had a season ago is his leg.
01:55 Yeah, he can get you one yard on the brotherly shove,
01:58 but you couldn't really stop them last year
02:00 because they had the wide out
02:02 and because the running game was opened up
02:04 by his ability to run.
02:06 He has not taken off with the ball in his hands
02:08 as much this season.
02:09 And I think that has hamstrung their team.