Yahoo Sports’ Jason Fitz and NFL writer Frank Schwab discuss how after three weeks into the season, the Eagles have shown flashes of greatness but also ugly football and we don’t yet know what to make of the team. Hear the full conversation on “Inside Coverage” – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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The Eagles beat the Saints 15 to 12.
That’s not a misspeak by me for once in a game that I think most of us thought would be explosive and beautiful and show the best of the best.
And instead, man, it was ugly like II, I could look at both sides of this.
I thought Derek Carr suddenly crashed and burned down to earth and, but also, so did Jalen hurts like Jalen Hurtz continues to have this problem throwing stupid plays or throw stupid picks and in games that make no sense to me.
So I watched both of these teams and thought, man, neither of these teams look like the playoff caliber teams that their fan base want them to be like come out of this thing.
Uh Maybe, maybe we’re ahead of our skis a little bit on the Saints being so good.
They, they did not look good on offense today.
Rashi was shut out all that kind of stuff.
They’re still fine, but they’re not gonna be that great.
I don’t know what to make of Philly.
They’re really not impressive.
They, they haven’t been that great in any game.
They give up a ton of big plays with the Packers of Brazil.
They obviously lost to the Falcons again.
They never should have lost, but they did, they didn’t really light up the scoreboard in that one.
It was such a struggle offensively for them in this game.
I get, they’re missing AJ Brown but other teams are missing guys and they’re ok.
I don’t know what to make of Philly.
Do you like?
I know and if your answer is sewn, fixes everything, I, I look, I, I think Seon sewn has a chance to be the MVP.
This is that moment where I appreciate the dominance of squan, but that doesn’t suddenly make everything easy for your team moving forward.
That’s the, that I, I’m not sure that the, it feels like the Eagles right now are playing a little bit of rush and roulette and I don’t think you can win football games that way.
Week in and week out.
Jalen Hurtz has got to play smarter throughout the course of this.
I think some of the plays is too cute.
I don’t understand it.
And then you push at the end of the first half.
So like you, you have a play that’s literally like almost got banned by the NFL because it’s so automatic and you’re like, we’re actually gonna line up like we can, we’re gonna run this play that has 85% effectiveness, but we’re gonna run something else on the outside.
Like what are you doing?
I just don’t know what the Eagles are like.
Again, we need to say, like, in a league where it’s been almost impossible for any team to just win games.
You should win.
They’re a ST while Barkley third do catch away from being three and, oh, so, I mean, I guess they were 10 and one last year and we saw where that went.
The question isn’t, can they win games?
The question is, are they a good football team?
Are they better than the Cowboys?
That right now look like an abject disaster?
Sure.
But that’s not the judge here.
The judge here is, can you win a Super Bowl?
And this team does not look like a super bowl caliber team to me.