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NFL Week 8 Under Review: It’s Too Soon to Give Up on Anthony Richardson - The Ringer
For the first time this season, the Eagles look like contenders. Believe me, I’m as surprised as you are. After Nick Sirianni celebrated a win by barking at fans in Week 6, I was ready to bury this team. Even after a Week 7 win against the Giants, the offense left me questioning the Eagles’ ceiling. But on Sunday against the Bengals, the Eagles delivered their most impressive performance in quite some time, and now suddenly this team is set up to potentially be a contender in the NFC. When the Eagles hired Kellen Moore as their offensive coordinator, the belief was that he could modernize the offense and add more easy buttons for quarterback Jalen Hurts. No one expected Moore to reinvent the wheel, but the scheme needed more variety and more answers. We finally saw some of those things against the Bengals. The Eagles ran a season-high 21 plays under center. Hurts targeted the middle of the field. Moore mixed in more play-action, and on those throws, Hurts went 6-for-7 for 142 yards. The Eagles had eight possessions, and they scored on seven of them—four touchdowns and three field goals. Based on EPA per drive, it was the seventh-best game by any offense this season. It was the Eagles’ best offensive performance in any game over the past three seasons.
Eagles vs. Bengals: 22 winners, 2 losers, 1 IDKs - BGN
The Philadelphia Eagles are 5-2 after beating the Cincinnati Bengals! Three wins in a row! Dare I say, the Eagles are ... back?! Sure feels that way after that kind of complete performance going up against a quality team on the road. The quarterback played great, the offense had rhythm, and the defense made big plays. Multiple games this season have frustratingly felt like the 2023 Eagles all over again. Last week’s run-heavy approach was reminiscent of the 2021 Eagles. Beating the Bengals had more of a 2022 feel and makes one wonder if the 2024 Eagles might truly be for real.
NFL Week 8: Biggest questions, takeaways for every game - ESPN
Is it time to buy into this Eagles defense? It appears Vic Fangio’s group has arrived. After holding the Browns and Giants to a total of 12 points the past two weeks, questions remained about whether the Eagles’ defense could hold up against a more potent attack. They stabilized after a slow start against Cincinnati and came up with two huge, game-defining plays: A fourth-and-1 stick by CB Cooper DeJean on WR Ja’Marr Chase late in the third quarter that kept the Bengals short of the first-down marker, and a nice tip-drill interception from cornerback Isaiah Rodgers to safety C.J. Gardner-Johnson on a quarterback Joe Burrow deep ball early in the fourth quarter — one of two takeaways on the day. If...
