The Philadelphia Eagles are an NFL best 7-1, but one of the biggest concerns—if not the biggest—when projecting their outlook into the postseason is their pass defense.
Joe Giglio does not believe the Eagles' defense, at least right now, is good enough to win the Super Bowl.
"I have serious skepticism that this Eagles defense is good enough to win the Super Bowl," Giglio said on Wednesday's 94WIP Midday Show with Hugh Douglas. "This pass defense though, I can't get out of my head what I've watched some pretty mediocre quarterbacks do to them this year."
The Eagles are allowing 247.5 passing yards per game, which is seventh worst in the NFL.
"The Eagles are 26th in pass defense," Giglio stated. "No team has won the Super Bowl in the last decade with a pass defense that bad, they're 26th."
Giglio also noted that Jalen Hurts has a 94.3 QB rating this year and opposing QBs have achieve a higher passer rating than Hurts when playing against Philadelphia.
"If you add up all of the quarterbacks that have faced the Eagles against them, do you know what their passer rating is? 97.2.
"The Eagles have turned every quarterback they have faced into Justin Herbert," Giglio said. "Now they've got a half a season to fix this, but from what I've seen so far this defense, as presently constituted so far this year, I don't think it is good enough to win the Super Bowl."
The quarterbacks the Eagles have faced thus far include: Mac Jones, Kirk Cousins, Baker Mayfield, Sam Howell twice, Matthew Stafford, Zach Wilson, and Tua Tagovailoa.
Coming up is: Dak Prescott twice, Patrick Mahomes, Josh Allen, Brock Purdy, Geno Smith, Kyler Murray and Daniel Jones (if healthy) twice.
Douglas, the former Eagles' defensive end, disagreed with Giglio.
"I feel like it is a work in progress," Douglas said. "You look at some of the pieces that Coach Desai has gotten over the past couple of weeks and guys that have been hurt, it's still an empty canvass to a certain extent. The fact there are coverage issues on the backend, I can attribute most of that to the fact that you've got a lot of guys back there that are learning on the fly...I think this pass rush will sustain this defense to a certain extent."