Was the Eagles’ impressive start just a mirage? It might be a little early to say definitively, but recent results are casting doubt on just how elite of a team Philly is.
The Eagles have lost each of their last two games, getting pummeled by two of the NFC’s top teams in the 49ers and Cowboys. Losing one of those games would be one thing, but getting trounced in both contests is raising serious alarm bells.
Last week, Brandon Graham had said he loved that they got pounded by the 49ers, in part because they had been "getting away with stuff." The Eagles' issues were evident again versus Dallas, with the offense sputtering and the defense getting picked apart in the 33-13 loss.
Former Eagles linebacker Seth Joyner told the 94WIP Morning Show that he feels like a fool for not calling out their issues earlier.
“We’ve been fooled,” Joyner said Monday morning. “We’ve all – and I feel like the biggest fool of all because I understand and I know football in such an intimate way, that I saw this, I knew this. And because the football team started off 7-0, 8-0, 9-0 and then they lost one and then they lost two -- when the team is 8-1, 9-1, social media wants you to shut the hell up and just bask in the fact that they have the best record in the National Football League.
“But my football mind and my football eyes saw the flaws. Instead of taking the ridicule that I would get by calling it what it was, I fell into the trap like everybody else and ignored the signs of what we’re seeing now. Because everything that this team – this just didn’t happen. This manifestation of where they are right now has been with this team all season long.
“We’ve been waiting for them to play the perfect game or complete game. We’ve been waiting for the improvement across the board. They’ve been lucky in situations and won some games that they otherwise would have lost under normal circumstances. And instead of us evaluating what the truth really was and what we really saw with our eyes, we fell in love with the record.”
The good news for the Eagles is their remaining regular season schedule is soft, with meetings against the Seahawks and Cardinals and a pair of matchups against the Giants coming up. The bad news is that in their final opportunities against legit contenders they came up woefully short.