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Roob’s Observations: Eagles escape with win over hapless Browns originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia
Remember when it used to be fun watching the Eagles?
It was too close, too sloppy, too scary, but the Eagles escaped the Browns Sunday at the Linc, a game neither team seemed to want to win for most of the afternoon.
A fantastic run-out-the-clock drive in the final minutes following 56 minutes of uninspired football gave the Eagles a 20-16 win over a hapless Browns team and got the Eagles to 3-2 with the murderer’s row of the Giants, Bengals and Jaguars coming up next.
Exhale.
1. It wasn’t exactly the blowout the Eagles were looking for. The Browns came in 1-4 on their third straight road game with a quarterback who can’t throw a football, and the Eagles are coming off a bye with all their weapons back at full strength in their own building, and they had to really scramble to escape with a win. Hey, they all count the same, and 3-2 is a better place to be than 2-3. But the Eagles’ inability to run away from this truly awful Browns team is concerning. The Eagles have now gone 16 consecutive games without beating anybody by two possessions, and that’s insane. The last time they won a game by more than eight points was Miami last October. For those of you who keep track of this stuff, this is the Eagles’ 3rd-longest streak of games without a two-possession win in 40 years. So while the win is a positive, it’s hard to feel super upbeat about a four-point victory over one of the worst teams in the NFL. Will this team ever play well for an entire game on offense, defense and special teams for 60 minutes? It’s been almost a year since they have.
2. Pretty good stuff throughout from the defense They held the Browns to 244 yards, nine points, 4-for-12 on third down and picked up five sacks after getting just six the first four games. But I’m not sure we really learned a whole lot about the defense because the Browns have literally one of the worst…
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Publish date : 2024-10-13 21:04:23
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