Bleeding Green Nation
Highlight performances from Philadelphia’s Week 11 win.
The Philadelphia Eagles are 8-2 after beating the Washington Commanders on Thursday night. Six wins in a row!
Kind of crazy that they were down 10 to 6 entering the fourth quarter ... only to quickly go up 26 to 10.
Regardless of how they got it done, this was a very important victory for the Birds. They’re on a good track to win the NFC East. Even better, they’re very much in contention for the No. 1 seed.
Time to hand out some winners, losers, and IDKs.
If it wasn’t already clear, the Eagles have their new Jim Johnson.
Vic Fangio’s defense has been excellent.
The Eagles have allowed just six offensive touchdowns over their last six games.
And whereas they previously played some bad offenses/quarterbacks, that was not the case in this one.
The Commanders entered this matchup ranked third in offensive points per game and fourth in yards per game.
Fangio won his battle with Kliff Kingsbury:
Eight of those points and 70 of those yards came with the Eagles playing a form of prevent defense late in the game.
Fangio might be overseeing the best defense in the NFL?
Or at least one of the very best that’s worth believing in.
Saquon’s unreal.
He’s simply unstoppable.
Where would the Eagles be without him this year?
Against the Commanders: 26 carries for 146 yards (5.6 average) and two touchdowns. Two catches for 52 yards.
Barkley’s logging 134.7 yards from scrimmage per game. The next closest player this season is Derrick Henry, who’s at 121.6 yards from scrimmage per game.
Barkley doesn’t even need great blocking to be great but it certainly helps! The Eagles’ offensive line paved the way for rushing success on Thursday night.
All told, the Eagles ran the ball 40 times for 228 yards (5.7 average) and three touchdowns.
Cam Jurgens deserves a special shoutout for how he was bullying defenders.
The Eagles’ ground game has been their offensive identity coming out of the Week 5 bye.
It’s an historically good unit.
The most highly-anticipated matchup entering this game was Mitchell vs. Terry McLaurin, who has a track record of doing damage against the Eagles despite largely working with lackluster quarterbacks.
Mitchell answered the bell in a big way:
Incredible.
Mitchell continues to look like an absolute lockdown corner.
One would think a performance like this should strengthen his case for Defensive Rookie of the Year. Based on what I’ve seen/read, Mitchell hasn’t been getting enough love in that conversation. Some national media members have suggested it’s a foregone conclusion that Jared Verse, who has 4.5 sacks in nine games, is the DROY.
The Mitchell erasure must stop. He deserves more credit than he’s gotten outside of Philly.
Another great outing from Baun, who led the Eagles in total tackles with 15 and...
