The Philadelphia Eagles crashed to start the 2020 season and fell into a 0-2 slot when defeated 64-36 through the Washington and Los Angeles Rams football team.
While that doesn’t seem to bode well for a quick change, the NFL’s addition of some other wild team this season may sneak into the playoffs.
A slow start is not a death sentence for an Eagles team returning with all their might and in an apartment without a runaway favorite.
No one forgets the upheavals that plagued the Eagles earlier in the season, but here’s why it’s too early to bury them completely.
Was it a 0-2 start so unforeseen for the Eagles?
The lack of preseason injured all teams, but having to face Washington and the Los Angeles Rams two weeks in a row to start the season was a recipe for disaster.
Washington had a strong seven-man front last year before adding Chase Young at the time of the overall pick in this year’s draft. The offensive line devastated by Eagles injuries had little chance of opposing the revolving door of Washington smugglers.
This is no excuse for this year’s Week 1 27-17 defeat, but it’s a game on the road, and then with a game opposite the Rams now 2-0 will never be easy. The Rams pulled the Eagles out of the water 37-19, but also controlled Dallas in Week 1.
To sit with one of the worst gap problems in the league at minus-28 is to be concerned about such a talented team, but the off-season, complicated schedule and injuries in key positions didn’t help much.
Eagle enthusiasts know more than anyone how important it is to avoid an overreaction at the start of the season.
Remember last year? Philadelphia started 1-2 and lost three consecutive games after his week 10 break to fall to 5-7. This stretch even included a major 37-10 eruption at the hands of Dallas.
Although the injuries devastated his receiving body, the Eagles won 4 in a row to win the division. If Carson Wentz hadn’t been injured at the start of his first playoff game, the 17-9 loss to Seattle could have been a victory. .
Starting 0-2 hurts, but the Eagles have a home game opposite the Cincinnati Bengals this week. In Week 4, they will face a team of San Francisco’s 49ers who suffer a long list of injuries, adding their starting quarterback, two ball carriers, their tight star, their number 1 open receiver and some more sensitive defenders. They also did the 0-2 against the New York Giants twice and played against a clumsy Cleveland team, all before Week 12.
If the training staff can orchestrate the appropriate settings, the start of 0-2 may be a late reflection.
The Eagles’ offensive line was the simple scapegoat in the team’s Week 1 loss to Washington. Dropping 8 bags tends to do this in one unit.
Wentz finished only 24 of 42 attempts in the first game for 270 yards with a couple of touchdowns and interceptions, but for credits of his offensive line, Wentz didn’t shoot at all in Week 2, which meant a quiet day for a big call like Aaron Darnold.
Line stabilization occurs after Brandon Brooks and Andre Dillard suffered injuries at the end of the season before Week 1. Lane Johnson played in Week 2 after missing in Game 1. In the last turn, beginner left guard Isaac Seumalo will run out of time due to a wound, however, that’s nothing yet a kind of next man’s unity.
Wentz finished only 58. 8% of his passes with two touchdowns and 4 picks. He’s dispersed and isn’t on the same wavelength with new faces like Jalen Reagor. But more consistent projections of the line in front of him, as well as a tight game. Plans to adapt to connections to your weapons (think of badr instructions like the Rams are doing) lead to stronger offensive results.
The scores in the final picture seem terrible, but Philadelphia’s defense is not the weak link it turns out to be.
In Week 1, the defensive kept Washington with just 178 yards per air and 80 yards on the court at an average of 2. 2 yards consistent with the drag. However, the Eagles committed three ball losses, two of which gave Washington ownership in the red zone. In his 11 practices after a 17-0 comeback, the Eagles’ offense had the ball for more than 3 minutes once, according to Chris Infante of the Philly Sports Network.
“They gave me gas towards the end,” Malik Jackson’s defensive version said, according to REuben Frank of NBC Philadelphia. “I think the boys (were) a little tired in the end, however, it’s anything you have to keep running on. “
In Week 2, the attack returned the ball 3 times and lost the war opposed to ownership time. Meanwhile, Derek Barnett played less than 50% of defensive shots in his season debut, and Javon Hargrave played 36% of the shots in his first game for the Eagles.
If key players continue to gain more and more game time as the offense improves (and someone like Sean McVay absolutely doesn’t understand it), the unit deserves stabilize and provide space to win. Then they’ll face the Cincinnati Bengals rookie quarterback as a bad player. offensive line.
Nfc East has a way to cannibalize itself, so a 0-2 start can coincide with the typical balancing act in one of the NFL’s most unpredictable divisions.
The department has not had a winner since 2004, and 10 wins or less have been won seven times since 2010.
While the Eagles have a 0-2 mark so far, Washington has already fallen to 1-1 after being defeated by Arizona, the New York Giants have not yet won, and Dallas needed a full comeback to beat a bad Atlanta team. 1-1.
That doesn’t mean the Eagles don’t have a task to do. Wentz wants to stabilize and training has to help. But some groups have taken longer to adjust to a season without preseason. Maybe Philadelphia wasn’t easy to predict, but the start without victories is far from an explanation of why absolutely discard the team.
At NFC East, and 2020, anything is possible, but the Eagles have a number of points suggesting a possible recovery despite their sad start.