Bleeding Green Nation
Highlights and lowlights from Philadelphia’s Week 3 win.
This was made possible by a once-forgotten man, Dallas Goedert, one old man, Brandon Graham, and a host of guys who are not depth-chart toppers like Tyler Steen, Paris Johnson, Johnny Wilson, and Jahan Dotson. It was made possible without A.J. Brown, DeVonta Smith, Darius Slay, Lane Johnson and Mekhi Becton.
This was made possible despite a pile of blunders by Nick Sirianni (how many times did you fire Sirianni in your head?). They won despite a blocked punt, two turnovers, one in the end zone, starters dropping everywhere, and gaping mistakes like having too many players on the field during crucial moments of the game.
The New Orleans Saints’ potent offense was shut down, Goedert went nuts, with a career-best 10 receptions for 170 yards, including the play of the game, in the Eagles’ 15-12 victory over the Saints on Sunday at the noisy Caesars Superdome.
The Eagles are a fortunate 2-1, dropping New Orleans to 2-1, after the Saints entered the game averaging 405.5 yards a game, and an NFL-high 45.5 points a game, averaging 11 more points than the nearest team (Arizona 34.5).
Sirianni maintains that the Eagles are not going to change who they are. Well, maybe it is about time Sirianni’s Eagles do change who they are. For the second-straight week, Sirianni’s penchant for going for it on fourth down backfired, leaving probably six points off the scoreboard with two missed fourth-down tries.
Fortunately, Saints’ coach Dennis Allen came from the same inept school, trying a fourth-down conversion himself that failed early in the fourth quarter when he could have kicked a field goal. This time, an opposing coach’s blunder spelled doom for them.
The Eagles’ record says 2-1. But they are a team in trouble. If you think otherwise, time to whip out your Eagles’ footie pajamas and see if they still fit.
Jalen Hurts has become a turnover machine. He threw his fourth interception and second in the end zone in three games. The Eagles won because two Saints’ defenders ran into each other on Goedert’s big fourth quarter catch and their 32-minutes, 15-seconds time of possession wore down a tired New Orleans’ defense.
Although the defense played well against New Orleans, it is still a very suspect unit.
There was good, a touch of bad, and a pile of ugly in a deceiving 15-12 victory over the New Orleans Saints.
Safety Reed Blankenship’s diving interception that clinched a very fortunate victory with :48 to play.
Tight end Dallas Goedert exploding. He made a career-high 10 catches, for 170 yards and targeted 11 times. His eight targets in the first half were one target less than the nine times Jalen Hurts looked at him in the Eagles’ first two games combined. Goedert’s 43-yard reception on the Eagles’ second drive to the Saints’ 13 got the Eagles going. Three plays later, it was erased by Hurts’ second end zone interception this season. Goedert...
