The Eagles are a mess. They are the unproud owners of a five-game losing skid, the longest losing streak in the NFC and currently the second-longest streak in the NFL behind the winless Los Angeles Chargers. The Eagles sit in third place in the hapless NFC East, not that it is any great distinction, one game up on their next opponent, the one-win Washington Commanders, this Sunday night on national TV.
If you’re wondering how low the Eagles can go, they are 5.5-point underdogs against the one-win
Commanders, who even with one victory hold a larger upside this season than the sinking, listless Eagles.
The Eagles are currently ranked 31st in offense, averaging 264.9 yards a game, and 29th in scoring, averaging an NFC-low 18.1 points a game. Defensively, the Eagles are not much better, ranked No. 27 in the NFL, giving up an average of 371.3 yards a game, and 25 points a game.
The Eagles are coming off their worst performance of the season, giving up a season-high 416 total yards that translated into a season-high 38 points in the 38-21 to the Dallas Cowboys on Monday night.
One weapon the Commanders have that the Eagles do not have is Jayden Daniels, despite the fact that he is 0-7-1 in his last eight starts and will be without Eagle killer Terry McLaurin, out for the season after surgery on Friday to repair the torn patellar tendon in his left knee. Even without McLaurin, the Commanders will be the better team.
Defensive tackles Jalen Carter and Jordan Davis were awful against Dallas. They were nowhere to be found. They had no quarterback pressures and were knocked off the ball the whole night. The Cowboys ran 65 plays and the vaunted Eagles’ defense had zero tackles for a loss. Carter, the highest paid defensive tackle in the NFL, ran from adversity and declined to talk to the media after the game and continued with his denial of putting out a maximum effort against Dallas this week leading into the Washington game.
At least Eagles’ defensive coordinator Vic Fangio was accountable—as he should have been. When asked about a lack of effort, Fangio denied seeing any lack of effort, although he did say, “I didn’t do a good enough job coaching. We didn’t play the run, obviously, well enough. When you do that, it kind of affects everything. I didn’t have them ready to do that the way we need to. We just didn’t play it well.”
Numerous sources in and around the Eagles have told Bleeding Green Nation recently that they still trust and believe in Nick Sirianni and Fangio. That the pair still have the locker room. They still somehow believe that Sirianni and Fangio can turn around this disaster, because they have done it before. That they still have faith the Eagles will be playing in vital November and December games. But where there was once unbending support for learning-on-the-job offensive coordinator Sean Mannion and offensive line coach Chris Kuper may be bending. It has changed to doubt as the Eagles keep sinking.
