Eagles News: “It will get fixed. There is too much talent for this not to get turned around.”

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Winning Ain’t Easy – Iggles Blitz
The offense has too much talent to stay stuck in their current situation. Out of eight halves of football this year, the offense has looked good in three of them (DAL 1H, LAR 2H, TB 1H). The players and coaches are going to get this fixed. I don’t know if it will be this week or next week or November. It will get fixed. There is too much talent for this not to get turned around. This isn’t hope. This isn’t blind faith. The Eagles have a strong track record of offensive success in recent years. I know Kevin Patullo wasn’t the OC, but he was a key part of the staff. He’s seen what works. Jeff Stoutland has a strong hand in the run game. Something tells me he will figure out how to get the ground game going. A huge key is for the OL to play better.

NFC Hierarchy/Obituary: Week 5 edition – PhillyVoice
Well, they’re through that hard stretch, and they’re perfect in the standings, with a chance to figure things out against a weaker upcoming quartet of opponents: Week 5: Broncos, Week 6: At Giants, Week 7: At Vikings, Week 8: Giants. My advice: Take a deep breath, relax, and just watch them continue to win the vast majority of their games.

Nick Sirianni addresses A.J. Brown’s cryptic tweets – BGN
After the Eagles beat the Buccaneers, A.J. Brown took to Twitter to share some post-game thoughts on Sunday. The cryptic posts have ignited a firestorm among fans and national media, and likely did exactly what the WR had hoped. He got everyone’s attention, including head coach Nick Sirianni. Sirianni spoke to reporters on Monday and was asked about Brown’s social media posts, and specifically whether he got a sense of whether the WR wanted to still be with the team.

Why your NFL team won, lost during Week 4 – PFF
Why the Eagles won: The Eagles’ top two corners, Quinyon Mitchell and Cooper DeJean, almost single-handedly shut down the Buccaneers’ passing attack. Baker Mayfield targeted the two cornerbacks a combined 18 times, but Mitchell and DeJean allowed just seven receptions for 52 yards when targeted, and broke up four passes between them. The young sophomore duo were bestowed 88.9 PFF coverage grades apiece, and Mayfield and the Buccaneers’ offense struggled to find its way into the game with half of the field shut off.

NFL Week 5 Power Rankings 2025: How all 32 teams stack up – ESPN
The Eagles have been prone to wild swings through four games. They had minus-1 passing yards in the first half against the Rams in Week 3, then erupted in the second half to mount a comeback win. Quarterback Jalen Hurts went 15-of-18 with two touchdowns in the first half against the Bucs, then went 0-for-8 in the second half as Philadelphia nearly blew a substantial lead. The fact that there’s significant room for improvement is a scary thing for the league, given this team exited a very difficult portion of its schedule with a perfect record.

In Roob’s Eagles Stats: The insanity of back-to-back 10-game winning streaks – NBCSP
The Eagles have won 10 consecutive games. And if that doesn’t seem like such a big deal, maybe that’s because it just happened last year. But it is a big deal because those are the only 10-game winning streaks in Eagles history. Every coach in Eagles history won 10 games exactly zero times. Sirianni has done it twice in the last 12 months. So we’ll start this week’s Roob’s Eagles Stats with a look at just exactly how rare these winning streaks are.

Bowen: Being 4-0 is great, but when Eagles stars won’t talk after a win, there’s a problem – PHLY
I covered the Eagles for a long time, and I don’t remember a win after which most of the key offensive personnel wouldn’t talk to reporters. That’s a big deal, even if Johnson just didn’t want to discuss his injury status – a big “if,” because the Lane Johnson I know would talk about nearly anything with nearly anyone. If it’s a problem for some of the key players, it’s a problem. Talk about 4-0 all you want. The Eagles also were 4-0 in 2023, and offensive coordinator Brian Johnson ended up getting fired. They were 2-2 and in crisis last season, until the offensive line used the bye week to get Nick Sirianni and Kellen Moore to refocus the offense. As Saquon Barkley has noted a few times now, opposing teams had all offseason to study the Eagles’ run looks. What worked last year is spectacularly unsuccessful so far this year. Barkley (19 carries, 43 yards Sunday) has a hard time breaking enough tackles to reach the line of scrimmage. And the banged-up offensive line just is not playing anything close to its Super Bowl-winning standard. Left tackle Jordan Mailata is the only starting Eagles offensive lineman who graded above replacement level at Tampa, according to Pro Football Focus. So far this season, PFF ranks Johnson 29th among 105 tackles. Dickerson ranks 78th out of 95 guards, 40 slots behind first-year starter Steen. Jurgens ranks 16th out of 46 centers. Maybe the O-line’s injuries make it tough for Patullo, a first-year playcaller. It’s still hard for me to accept the way the scheme functioned in the second half. The Eagles looked like a team playing out the end of a bad season in which everyone knows the coach is getting fired and the focus is finishing up uninjured.

NFL Power Rankings – The Ringer
Do you understand how talented a team must be to score 31 points and win a game without completing a single pass in the second half? Most top-heavy rosters have weaknesses that get exposed, but Philadelphia just keeps cruising without ever needing to play its A game. I still don’t like how easily the Eagles’ passing game can come apart—and I’ve got concerns about the offensive line’s blocking as of late. But for Philadelphia, explosive offense is always around the corner, and once the Eagles find it there’s no chance anyone in the league can keep pace.

Zack Baun’s Unique Rise to Stardom – PE.com
Eighteen months ago, Zack Baun signed a one-year deal with the Eagles. Baun had spent his first four NFL seasons on the Saints but came to Philadelphia in part because of how his former teammate at Wisconsin, Andrew Van Ginkel, thrived under Vic Fangio with the Dolphins. Van Ginkel became a standout edge rusher for Fangio, and that’s what Baun envisioned when inking his deal. Then, he got to the NovaCare Complex and was introduced to Inside Linebackers Coach Bobby King. From there, the position switch was on. “I’m like, ‘All right, let’s give it a shot,’” Baun said. “And my competitiveness was just like, ‘All right, I’m trying to make it. There’s a spot open and I need it to be me.’” Baun earned that starting spot during Training Camp and never looked back. He had one of the most prolific seasons ever from an Eagles defender, being named an AP Defensive Player of the Year finalist and helping the Philadelphia Eagles win Super Bowl LIX.

2025 NFL fantasy football waiver wire, Week 5: Pick up Jaxson Dart, Woody Marks and Darius Slayton – NFL.com
If you happen to be in a league where Dallas Goedert became a forgotten man after missing time early due to injury, right that wrong and hit the waiver wire. Goedert has posted 10-plus points in all three of his games this season, including a season-high 19.7 on Sunday against the Buccaneers. It seems like he’s one of the few pieces of the Eagles’ passing game you can count on right now.

Broncos vs. Eagles betting odds for Week 5 – Mile High Report
This is going to be a monumental task for Bo Nix and the Broncos. They are still trying to find their legs to start the season and will face an Eagles team that is firing on all cylinders with their 4-0 start to the season. They will need to find a way to keep the ground game going after piling up 186 yards and two touchdowns on the ground vs. the Bengals. JK dobbins was their first 100 yard rushing in over 30 games.

Dan Quinn talks about injuries, missed tackles, and communication breakdowns vs the Falcons – Hogs Haven
Jayden Daniels had a good workout on Saturday, and they’ll set his practice plan over the next two days. Terry McLaurin(quad), John Bates(groin), and Noah Brown(groin) are trending up, and in the right direction. Sam Cosmi is also trending in the right direction to return from his January ACL surgery, and Quinn said they’d have a more definitive answer on his return from the PUP list on Wednesday.

Cowboys vs. Packers Stock Report: Dak Prescott, George Pickens shine during tie – Blogging The Boys
It really is unfortunate. Life in the NFL is so dependent on having elite quarterback play and if you can find it you better cherish it. Ideally you have an offensive play-caller who is capable of devising creative ways to utilize the player in question, and if you are even more fortunate you have high-level pass-catchers who can take care of business once the ball leaves his hands. The Dallas Cowboys have these foundational things, and had them in their most nirvana-like state on Sunday night. They do not have a win to show for it, they don’t have a loss either, which is incredibly frustrating. Sunday night was incredible theater and that was just the way NBC wanted it, with this being Micah Parsons’ return alongside the Green Bay Packers who were visiting the building for the first time since destroying the Cowboys in the 2023 Wild Card Round. In many ways a tie was a fitting end to a saga that sucked up every bit of oxygen for the last two months.

Film review: Jaxson Dart’s first start filled with positives – Big Blue View
The New York Giants defeated the Los Angeles Chargers, 21-18, in Jaxson Dart’s first career start. Dart became the first quarterback in the last 20 years to win his first career start against a team that was 3-0 or better, according to CBS. Dart did not set the world ablaze against a Jesse Minter coached defense that allowed just 158 passing yards per game before Week 4. Dart finished 13 of 20 for 111 yards (5.6 average) with one passing touchdown; he added 54 yards on the ground on ten carries, along with a rushing touchdown. Dart was sacked five times. The rookie quarterback had a 65% completion rate with a +0.63 clean pocket EPA per dropback, and a 96.0 passer rating. His overall EPA per dropback was -0.06.

Let’s talk about Bryce Young – SB Nation
Fall is here. Pumpkin spice is invading our lives. Halloween is around the corner. The Panthers are disappointing. It’s been a fall tradition year-in-year-out, but Sunday might have truly been the breaking point for Carolina. Whatever optimism was gained in a 30-0 thrashing of the Atlanta Falcons was washed away in minutes as the Panthers went to Foxboro and got dogwalked by the Patriots in a 42-13 beatdown that led to Bryce Young smashing his helmet on the sideline, eventually being benched again for Andy Dalton. The lazy, incorrect answer is “he’s a bust.” The binary of success or failure doesn’t really apply here, because Carolina is such a mess of a football team that no one player could turn this around. Hell, you could put Josh Allen on this team and it’s unlikely the Panthers would have any more victories. Still, that doesn’t absolve Young of any responsibility, and it’s high time we talked about what is actually going wrong with this football team — and whether or not this is salvageable anymore.

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