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We are eight games through the 2024 Eagles season, the team having played four, had a bye, then played four more. This gives us a nice even sample on either side of the bye. In the Eagles second set of four games, there’s been a big and positive shift in the performance of the defense. It should be noted that the defense played two of the worst offenses in the league in their second set of four games. But hey, good news is good news.

One reason for the improvement has been the...

The Philadelphia Eagles’ record is 6-2, and they are in the running for the top spot in the NFC East.

They have won four consecutive games and have scored 20+ points in each of those four games.

Former NFL quarterback and current ESPN analyst Dan Orlovsky recently revealed what Nick Sirianni’s offense is doing differently since the bye week.

“A little bit is getting back to the ability to have quarterback run and zone read…I think them figuring how they want to operate that, either quarterback run or hand-it-to-the-back run, has really been another change since the bye week,” Orlovsky...

The Philadelphia Eagles entered the 2024 NFL season with renewed hope and excitement.

They surprisingly fell in the first round of the playoffs last year, a far cry from their Super Bowl appearance the prior season.

Many expected them to bounce back in a big way this year, but they started the season with a 2-2 record.

They lost to the Atlanta Falcons, which was surprising, and they also fell to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in a blowout.

Things have gotten better for them lately, as they’ve won their last four games.

While that might have been good enough in...

The head coach also said that he isn’t worried about being 0-3 in Dallas during his time in Philly, and is treating this like any other week.

The Eagles were back at practice on Wednesday as they get ready to face the Cowboys, and head coach Nick Sirianni spoke to reporters about the work load and rotations of the running backs and defensive ends, as well as gave his thoughts on the team not making a move before the trade deadline.

Here’s what the head coach had to say:

On Jalen Hurts’ development

Sirianni pointed out that things...

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The latest news on Philadelphia and Dallas.

The Philadelphia Eagles issued their first official injury report on Wednesday in advance of their Week 10 road game against the Dallas Cowboys.

Note that this report is an estimation because the team held a walkthrough in lieu of a normal practice.

It’s a really long report with 15 players listed (28.3% of the active roster).

The Eagles listed three players under DID NOT PARTICIPATE: DeVonta Smith, Nolan Smith, and Ben VanSumeren

DeVonta is dealing with a hamstring injury. That’s an unexpected development considering he played 96.2% of the Eagles’ snaps in Week...

Analyzing Philadelphia’s offensive performance from their Week 9 win over the Jaguars.

Right, I’ll get straight to the point this week. I don’t want to waste time breaking down Nick Sirianni’s fourth-down calls in this game. Other people know this stuff better than me, and I prefer to get to the schematic stuff. I am a big fan of aggressive head coaches and always will be. I struggle to criticize Sirianni’s aggressiveness, but I struggled with some of the decisions in this one. I hated taking the PAT off the board when the Eagles had already kicked it to go...

The Eagles’ star running back has basically been unstoppable.

Saquon Barkley is NFC Offensive Player of the Week for Week 9 of the 2024 NFL season, according to an official league announcement.

Honestly, he deserved this just for the play where he broke two tackles and then jumped over a Jacksonville Jaguars defender BACKWARDS alone. All told, he had 27 carries for 159 yards (5.9 average) and one rushing touchdown ... plus three catches for 40 yards and one receiving touchdown in the Eagles’ most recent win.

This marks the third time Barkley is taking home the NFC POTW award...

This is worth a few minutes. I’ll transcribe some of it also:

Chris Long with the best five minutes you’ll hear today on the Jason Kelce situation.

“The internet culture has ruined real life and there’s too many people who grew up in situations where they never got punched in the face.”

An unbelievable This Is Football with @JOEL9ONE. pic.twitter.com/m5WdwfAKRa

— Kevin Clark (@bykevinclark) November 5, 2024

*“I think the biggest problem with today’s generation of kids, I hate to say it like that, I sound like an old man, but I think...

Let’s get it back to the Eagles on a post-election Wednesday morning:

Cooper DeJean 85.7 coverage grade since Week 6

3rd among all CBs pic.twitter.com/DaKTJrJGmm

— PFF (@PFF) November 5, 2024

ALL-PRO: #Eagles rookie cornerback Quinyon Mitchell has literally been perfect for the last month

• Targeted 15 times
• Only 8 catches allowed
• 73 total yards allowed
• ZERO touchdowns allowed

Philadelphia had something really special in Mitchell

(Via @BrendenDeeg_) pic.twitter.com/Lk4drXdw4E

— MLFootball (@_MLFootball) November 4, 2024

Fantastic numbers. DeJean flashes...

Philadelphia Eagles news and links for 11/6/24.

Let’s get to the Philadelphia Eagles links ...

In Roob’s Stats: What the Eagles did for the first time since 1950 - NBCSP
5. We’ve got rushing stats! 5A. The Eagles have rushed for 667 yards in their last three games, their 3rd-highest 3-game total since 1950. They had 674 vs. the Saints, Dolphins and Colts in 1978 and 683 yards against the Packers, Titans and Giants late in 2022. 5B. The Eagles’ 1,398 rushing yards are their most through eight games in 74 years. The 1950 team had 1,764 after eight games....

Think you can figure out which Eagles player we’re talking about? You’ll get five clues to figure him out in our new guessing game!

We’re back for another day of the Bleeding Green Nation in-5 daily trivia game, and we’re returning to our system of a new article each day for the game.

We tried using a single article for the game, updated with the latest game each day, but it was creating a bit of an unwieldy experience in the comments. So, we’ll have the current day’s game plus the previous three days in each new article. That way,...