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A closer look at Eagles’ passing defense shows ‘room for improvement’ – The Athletic
Adoree’ Jackson gave his performance a “C.” Letter grades fail to capture a full game’s nuances. Still, a reporter asked Jackson at the Philadelphia Eagles cornerback’s locker to grade his debut in Thursday night’s 24-20 win over the Dallas Cowboys. Jackson, who won the CB2 battle as much by default as by merit, was targeted a team-high seven times. Pro Football Focus saddled Jackson with 103 of Dak Prescott’s 188 passing yards. “Room for improvement, things that I did well, things that I can correct and get better at for the next week,” Jackson said. “I’m not gonna hang my head or hang it too high or too low at the end of the day, regardless if I played good or I didn’t. It’s always things that I can find to get better at and do better at.”
Report: Eagles were 1 of the 2 teams Micah Parsons wanted to be traded to – BGN
The Philadelphia Eagles were one of the two teams Micah Parsons had interest in being traded to before the Dallas Cowboys ultimately sent him to the Green Bay Packers, according to a report from NFL insider Dianna Russini.
Three quick thoughts on the Eagles’ signing Za’Darius Smith – PHLY
What this signing says about Azeez Ojulari. The Eagles’ decision to finalize the deal for Smith, whose free agency lingered into the regular season after the Detroit Lions released the veteran in March to avoid paying him a roster bonus, is the latest in a string of negative developments for Azeez Ojulari. The 25-year-old signed with the team on a one-year, prove-it deal this offseason with theoretical upside, but had a mostly quiet training camp and was among the inactives in the Eagles’ 24-20 win over the Dallas Cowboys on Thursday night. Ojulari’s fellow edge rusher Ogbo Okoronkwo was also inactive, reflective of how thin the bottom end of the edge-rusher rotation was for the Eagles going into the season. Behind the starting duo of Nolan Smith and Jalyx Hunt, situational pass-rusher Josh Uche played 31% of the Eagles’ defensive snaps against Dallas while veteran special-teams ace Patrick Johnson slotted in for 20%.
A rare achievement over the Cowboys in this year’s inaugural Roob’s Eagles Stats – NBCSP
With their win over the Cowboys Thursday night, the Eagles have now won three straight games vs. Dallas for the first time in over 20 years. Last time the Eagles had a three-game winning streak vs. their biggest rival was the second game in 2003, a 36-10 win at the Linc, and a 2004 sweep — 49-21 at Texas Stadium and 12-7 at the Linc. They won just 16 of their next 39 games vs. the Cowboys before the current three-game winning streak. Their last winning streak vs. the Cowboys longer than three games was a six-game streak with sweeps in 2000, 2001 and 2002. Their longest streak is eight games in a row from the 1987 rematch — after Tom Landry ran it up on Buddy Ryan in the early season strike replacement game — through the first game in 1991. The Eagles’ four-game home winning streak over the Cowboys is their longest since they won six in a row at the Vet and the Linc from 1999 through 2004.
Brazil becomes football country for Chiefs-Chargers – SB Nation
In 2024, Green Bay Packers vs. Philadelphia Eagles set the attendance record for the stadium at 47,236, and the city of Sao Paulo said it caused a positive impact to the local economy of $61.9 million. Gerrit Meier, head of NFL International, told the local media earlier this week that the NFL is “here to stay” as Brazil games have become a “mini Super Bowl” in terms of production.
5 winners and 5 losers from the Chiefs’ loss to the Chargers in Brazil – Arrowhead Pride
LOSERS: Head coach Andy Reid and defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo: When motivation and emotion look inconsistent and execution is rough — and the same issues pop up over and over again — that’s on the coaches. They have to adjust their plans, make sure players are ready and put them in a position to win. While Friday’s matchup wasn’t as lopsided a loss as Super Bowl LIX against the Philadelphia Eagles, it had some of the same problems: a lack of pass rush, no running game… and no answers.
The Cowboys touched the ball three times after the delay and failed to score at all as we have noted. You do have to wonder though how things could or would have gone if all they had needed was a field goal as opposed to a touchdown. Maybe it makes a difference. Maybe it doesn’t. But it seems very clear that the lightning delay and the plays right before it served as the biggest points of change for Dallas overall.
Will 2025 be the last year of the tush push? – PFT
The biggest question will be whether the person(s) who instigated the effort to get the Packers to propose a tush push ban decide to make another run. That likely will require the league to get the Packers or another team to propose it again. As another source explained it, the effort to do an end run around the Competition Committee happened because a unanimous vote of the rule-proposing body is needed to take a proposed change to the owners. The league office did it twice in the offseason. The Lions admitted that the league office encouraged them to propose playoff reseeding, and PFT has reported that the league office got the Packers to mobilize against the tush push. If one team will do the league a solid in March 2026, and if two of the 10 that saved the tush push can be persuaded to go the other way (assuming that the 22 who voted to end it hold firm), this season could be the swan song of the tush push.
Saints’ Kellen Moore leans on experience to revamp offense – ESPN
Moore said one of the fun playcalls came against the Jacksonville Jaguars last season when the Eagles handed the ball to running back Saquon Barkley on third-and-17 and he scored a 19-yard touchdown. “We kind of looked at each other [like] that actually worked? It had more to do with Saquon being the running back, anything,” Moore said. “There’s always fun moments like that.”
How bad is the Giants’ run defense? – Big Blue View
So what does all this mean for the Giants’ run defense? To go back to my original question, just how bad are they? The answer is “not great, but not as bad as they seem at first blush.” The advanced stats suggest that the Giants’ defenders were often winning their assignments and in position to make plays — they just didn’t finish. That’s not good and absolutely needs to improve. But given that the Giants were frequently relying on young players (like Tyler Nubin and Dru Phillips), injured players (like Bobby Okereke and Brian Burns), or depth players (like Darius Muasau or Elijah Garcia), there is absolutely room for significant improvement. The Giants’ raw numbers were bad, but they weren’t terrible on average; their average efficiency was above average, while their win rate was legitimately good. Their biggest problems were that they saw SO MANY rushing attempts that the yardage just piled up. And over time, all those rushing attempts were opportunities for an opposing professional to make a play.
2025 NFL Week 1 bold predictions: Malik Nabers ties single-game receptions record – NFL.com
Malik Nabers ties NFL single-game receptions record. No player has hit 20 receptions in a game since Brandon Marshall set the record (21) back in 2009. That will change on Sunday when Nabers ties Marshall’s record against the Commanders. In two meetings with Washington last season, Nabers saw absurd target rates of 69.2 percent and 40.7 percent from Daniel Jones. Now in his Year 2 opener, with Russell Wilson under center, and in a play-from-behind contest against Jayden Daniels, Nabers will turn all that attention into the third 20-catch game in NFL history.
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