The Minnesota Vikings carved up the Eagles' secondary on Sunday to the tune of 325 passing yards, 447 total yards, and 26 first downs en route to a 38-20 victory.
The Eagles, 3-3 through six games, are fifth-worst in the NFL allowing 280.2 passing yards per game and 10th worst with 24.8 points allowed per game.
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Sunday's lost was particularly concerning, however.
"I mean, that was just an all-around bad performance for us," Eagles safety Rodney McLeod said on Monday's 94WIP Midday Show with Joe DeCamara and Jon Ritchie.
"I feel like defensively kind of nothing went right that game. We put our offense in a bad position early on in the game. We talk about starting fast and setting the tone, things that we have done lately and we failed to do that man and gave up explosive plays. Things that beat you and we preach about not doing, we did yesterday. The Vikings man, you gotta tip your hat to them. They were more physical and the better team yesterday."
Vikings WR Stefon Diggs had a ridiculous seven catches for 167 yards and three scores. McLeod was asked specifically about Diggs' first touchdown, a 62-yard bomb where Diggs ran past Eagles corner Rasul Douglas.
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— Minnesota Vikings (@Vikings) October 13, 2019"We were in quarters coverage and honestly, they kind of ran that set earlier," McLeod explained. "They actually threw a fade I think to Diggs earlier in the game going the opposite way and Rasul did a good job in coverage on that one. But me and (safety) Malcolm (Jenkins) pushed and they made a good throw man. Quarters coverage, we talk about the corners gotta stay on the top. But Rasul knows that man, it's technique, something that we always preach and he's better than that and he's shown that in recent games. It's fixable and we'll get it fixed and make sure it doesn't happen again."
