Yahoo Sports’ Jason Fitz and senior NFL writer Frank Schwab discuss Philadelphia’s big win over Cincinnati on Sunday and whether or not the team’s 5-2 start can be believed. Hear the full conversation on “Inside Coverage” – and subscribe on , , or
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The Eagles beat the Bengals 3717.
I don’t know, I kind of looked at this and said, I’m not gonna make some sweeping statement about the Eagles because I’m not sure the Bengals are any better than the other trash teams.
The Eagles have beaten over the last few weeks.
Yeah, I mean, what are they living on right now?
They’re living on what they’ve done in the past three years ago when they went to the Super Bowl.
I was listening to a radio person that was saying, hey, this is now we have to take the Eagles seriously.
We didn’t have to take them seriously when they beat the Browns and the Giants because those are bad football teams.
And I literally yelled into my radio.
How do we know that the Beals are any better than those bad teams?
Now, Jalen Hurtz gets three rushing touchdowns and 16 to 20 for 2, 2236 in the touchdown.
Jalen Hurtz was very good and the Eagles, everybody this week is gonna say the Eagles found their identity again.
They found the offense that is going to work for them.
I would say, hey, the Eagles had this great advantage of taking on the Bengals defense and when you take on the Bengals defense, boy, it’s easy to look like, you know what you’re doing offensively, the Bengals defense is a joke at this point.
So, just because they got the Bengals stripes and the Cincinnati name and we think that Joe Burrow is gonna lead his team down this path every single year.
Doesn’t mean that this year’s Bengals teams are worth that level of hype.
They just aren’t.
Yeah.
Uh tough to disagree with that.
It really is.
I was like the Eagles did pass the eye test, they did look good.
AJ Brown just makes such a big difference for this team.
I mean, he missed some time earlier in the year and they just were kind of a shell of themselves.
But this, I, I say even if it’s against a bad Bengals team, the handle business in the second half the way you should beat a bad team.
They looked good.
They, they looked like the Eagles.
They, it’s like this is what we want to see.
The, the, the efficiency out of Jalen hurts the rushing touchdowns out of Jalen Hurtz Barkley doing his thing.
AJ Brown being able to make a play whenever they need it.
So a little more optimistic about the Eagles than you coming out of this game because I think to handle business the way you want to see them handle business.
But yeah, I get what you mean.
I get what you mean.