The crumbling usually starts like this. The subtleties surface like tiny lashing out spurts and the vacant facial expressions that take command when NFL teams are sinking without any answers available.
General manager Howie Roseman may be feeling the sting of a three-game losing streak. Bleeding Green Nation recently learned he expressed frustration during an impromptu gathering with local media over a benign question about the offensive line. Roseman has been seen at practices more often than usual.
Poor offensive coordinator Sean Mannion has worn the look of a man escaping from the spin cycle of a Maytag washing machine during the Eagles’ current three-game losing streak. How the team has been covered by media this season has also drawn significant displeasure from some inside the building.
Is losing getting to them?
They have every right to feel the way they do, with 24 players on the injury report this week and a team that seems headed to the loser’s pile, after the most successful four-year stint in Eagles’ history.
The Eagles went four-straight double-figure winning seasons, which was the third time in franchise history the Eagles have done that behind the five-year runs of Andy Reid’s 2000-2004 teams and Buddy Ryan/Rich Kotite’s 1988-1992 teams. What made the most recent four-year run unique was it marked the most victories that the Eagles have ever had in a four-year span (50), over Reid’s 2000-2003 (46) or 2001-2004 (48) teams, or Ryan’s 1988-1991 (41) or 1989-1992 (42) teams.
Plus, the Eagles won the Super Bowl.
Barring a miracle, or a miracle worker who can somehow cure the many ailing Eagles, the double-figure season winning streak looks like it will come to a screeching halt in 2026. You’re fooling yourself if you think the Eagles will reach the Super Bowl. This team, now kept together with Scotch tape and Super Glue, have no Super Bowl in sight this season.
The front office may be getting nervous. They may be seeing the end to something special that is probably a reason why this team is in the state it is. In the last five years, the Eagles have played 95 games, the fifth most of every team in the NFL behind Kansas City (97), San Francisco (96), and Buffalo and the Los Angeles Rams (95 each).
Success can also run down a team. It shortens the offseason for the body heal, and that is compounded by the reduced conditioning time between seasons. Nagging injuries that every NFL player endures during the season linger longer.
Roseman, a future Hall of Famer, has been the architect. He is entitled to have a flop or two, which is what is happening here, knowing he had to fortify the offensive line, considering he knew before the season Lane Johnson was close to being finished, before announcing his retirement last week, and knowing Cam Jurgens and Landon Dickerson were close to finished, too, due to their bodies breaking down. Roseman knew he could not rely on the highly dubious back line at safety with Andrew Mukuba and Marcus Epps, who are both ailing on and off the field. He failed to address that, too.
Over the last two drafts, Mukuba, linebacker Jihaad Campbell, receiver Makai Lemon and tackle Markel Bell have been the only regulars getting playing time. Tight end Eli Stowers, taken in the 2026 second round, has not sniffed the field, while Mukuba and Campbell keep making the same mistakes after playing a whole NFL season. Campbell’s play has deteriorated so much that his position may be in jeopardy by a growing role for Jeremiah Trotter Jr.
Behind the scenes, this is where Nick Sirianni thrives, where he is actually at his best. The Eagles’ head coach does a great job of keeping the outside noise where it belongs—outside. The players keep playing hard for him, which seems there are no signs of cracking so far, especially in Week 5’s heartbreaking 19-17 setback to Jacksonville.
The undermanned Eagles really had no right to be in that game and were eight seconds away from a strong statement that they still belong among the NFL’s elite. They don’t. Weak special teams, a unit assembled together from the faulty depth pieces Roseman provided this season, let them down. The 19-17 loss was the kind of gut punch that carries for months—maybe throughout a season.
October is not over yet. The Eagles are entering Week 6 at 2-3 with the worst ahead. Behind closed doors, maybe the suits are sweating. It sure looks like it from here.
