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Philadelphia’s top competition in the NFC East just got better.
This development is bad news for the Eagles, who are currently chasing the Commanders for the NFC East lead. Lattimore, 28, is a pretty good player; he’s allowed just a 69.1 passer rating when targeted this season. That’s after allowing a 74.7 passer rating in 2023 and a 67.3 passer rating in 2022.
Another annoying angle for the Eagles is that they unintentionally helped the Commanders make this deal. Philly sent the more favorable of two third-round picks (either theirs or the Miami Dolphins’ selection, so, probably the latter) to Washington in exchange for Jahan Dotson. Although he had a big catch in Week 9, Dotson has mostly been a non-factor for the Eagles with 14 targets for seven receptions, 71 yards, and zero touchdowns. And that’s with both A.J. Brown and DeVonta Smith missing significant playing time due to injury.
To be clear, the Commanders didn’t actually use the pick that the Eagles gave them (honestly, bad job by the Saints for not pushing harder for that selection) ... but Washington having an additional third-round pick likely emboldened them to do this deal.
The Cowboys are worse than jury duty
The Dallas Cowboys are down bad. Jerry Jones said they were “all in” this year, instead they’re having possibly their worst season in 20 years.
Or, in the words of Dak Prescott, they “fucking suck.” At least Prescott, who was having probably the worst season of his career, won’t have to participate in it for a while, as he’s likely headed to injured reserve.
Mike Zimmer was coaxed out of semi-retirement and probably wishes he wasn’t. Jerry Jones threatened the job security of radio hosts a few weeks ago. Trevon Diggs read a tweet from during the game and confronted the reporter who wrote it—while still in uniform. Ezekiel Elliott was suspended for being late to meetings, no way the suspension happens if he was actually performing. On Sunday the Cowboys had 10 defenders on the field for a play in the red zone, later the offense evened that out with 12 men in the huddle on 4th and 1.
The Cowboys can’t stop anyone, 31st in points per game against. They can’t keep up with anyone, 20th in points per game for. They can’t control the clock to try to win small possession low scoring games, 31st in rushing yards per game and 30th in rushing yards per attempt. Forget about the potential missed opportunity of not signing Derrick Henry, Tony Pollard has more rushing yards and TDs than every Cowboys RB combined. The longest run by a Cowboy so far this...
