The warning signs are clear in Philadelphia; The Eagles just need to heed them

Ralph Vacchiano

NFC East Reporter

There are alarm bells going off all over the city of Philadelphia after the Eagles just played their two worst games of the season. They’re aware of how bad everything looks right now, even though they’re convinced things aren’t that bad at all.

“Everybody’s acting like the sky is falling,” Brandon Graham said after the Eagles lost to the Dallas Cowboys 33-13 on Sunday night. “But we’re 10-3 and control our own destiny. It ain’t going to be perfect.”

Added quarterback Jalen Hurts: “It’s something we’re going through. Not something we’re stuck in.”

Maybe they’re right. They’re still a team that’s loaded with talent. They’re still going to make the playoffs. And there’s still plenty of time left for them to win their division too. It sure helps that their last four games are as soft as a bag of marshmallows. There’s a pretty good chance they’ll even end up right where they expected — as the No. 1 seed in the NFC.

But those alarms are going off for a reason, and they’re getting louder. And the Eagles better listen closely, because they’re real and not likely to go away.

There are real issues that were exposed for the Eagles in back-to-back weeks by the San Francisco 49ers and the Cowboys — two teams that didn’t just beat them, they clobbered them by a combined score of 75-32. These weren’t just a couple of close games decided by a few inches or some bad breaks. The Cowboys and 49ers were very clearly the better teams.

It’s not that either of them are necessarily more talented, though. It’s that they’re playing better, because the Eagles are not playing well. All season long it felt like the Eagles were flirting with disaster, getting away with sloppy or inconsistent play, that something wasn’t quite right with them. It was easy to gloss over because they won 10 of their first 11.

There’s no way to ignore those issues now.

“I think the biggest thing for this team now is really find…

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Publish date : 2023-12-11 19:05:39

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