Dallas Goedert raised some eyebrows with his comments after the Eagles embarrassing loss to the New York Giants.
"I just know everybody in this locker room is ready to go to work for the playoffs,” the tight end admitted. “Ever since 4 or 5 weeks ago when we clinched the playoffs, I think everybody has just been waiting for the playoffs.
“Not something that is a great thing, but I think everybody is going to be ready to go and I think we’re going to show the world what we’re capable of.”
The Eagles enter the postseason losers of five of their last six games and Goedert told Joe Giglio and Hugh Douglas on Wednesday that the poor results have come from a lack of focus.
"We always say we never look ahead in the schedule and we want to take it day by day," Goedert said on the Midday Show. "And that's exactly what we want to do. But, you know, we had that hard stretch in the middle of the season and whether it was outside noise or you look at the schedule before the season and notice what looks like easy games at the end of the season, games that, you know, we expected to win without doing anything."
"So we lost a couple of games in the hard stretch and, you know, like, it's okay, we'll win the games at the end of the year. You know, the three games at the end of the year that seem really winnable. And, you know, we might have overlooked it. We might have just coasted and expected our talent to win games."
Things got so ugly against the Giants, Nick Sirianni pulled his starters from the game in the second quarter when they trailed 24-0.
The Eagles enter Wild Card Weekend as a three-point road favorite over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers who they beat at home in Week 3.