Enough talking — time to show it on the field

Eagles notebook: Enough talking — time to show it on the field originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia

TAMPA — The time for talking is over.

That was the feeling inside the Eagles’ locker room for much of this week as the team prepared to face the Buccaneers on Monday night. After weeks of talking about vibes and potential solutions, there’s not much else to say.

“See y’all Monday. We’re going to see how this go,” a no-nonsense DeVonta Smith said on Thursday. “I ain’t finna give y’all no pep talk about ‘Oh, we been doing this, we been doing that.’ Naw. We going out there Monday with the plan to win and that’s that.”

The Eagles have been in a free fall the last month and a half. A team with a 10-1 record finished the regular season with an 11-6 mark and is going on the road in the first round of the playoffs.

It’s the kind of collapse that is extremely rare in the NFL or in pro sports in general.

But inside this shell of an Eagles team is the same team that beat the Cowboys and Dolphins and Rams and Chiefs and Bills. Inside somewhere is the team that manhandled these same Buccaneers 25-11 back in a Week 3 win in Raymond James Stadium. Watch the tape of that game and you’ll see just how far the Eagles have fallen.

They have at least one more chance to prove themselves on Monday night.

“I just know that what we put out this last month and a half, it’s not going to be that. That’s what I do know,” the ever-optimistic Brandon Graham said. “I just know that we got a lot of pride in our room and a lot of people know that, that wasn’t good enough. I just say that we got a real chance to clean up all that from what it was before and what we just did. Let’s get back to what we know we can be. That’s going out there and being a dominant defense and being together.”

Of course, we’ve heard all of this before. The Eagles have said all these things for weeks now.

It’s fair to wonder if they really believe them at this…

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Publish date : 2024-01-16 00:00:00

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