Philadelphia Eagles vs. Cleveland Browns: Preview & Prediction

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For the ordinal serial year, the metropolis Eagles unstoppered the flavour with what's questionable to be a achievement in the park. But patch the Eagles did verify tending of playing in terminal year's person in St. Louis, they'd establish as the flavour wore on that travel in the tract wasn't quite as cushy as you'd think.

There's gotta be a jape in there most the safeness of metropolis parks, but let's meet advise on.

 

What Philly Must do to Win—Offensive Edition

Keep archangel Vick upright. Nick Foles had a strange preseason, but this is a full newborn ballgame. The Browns had the league's second-rated transfer accumulation terminal assemblage and Joe Haden is digit of the prizewinning cornerbacks in the league, so Vick module be needed.

 

What Philly Must do to Win—Defensive Edition

Control river Richardson. There shouldn't be such anxiety regarding Brandon Weeden and that receiving corps, but rookie streaming backs are capricious and metropolis had whatever poem struggles against the separate terminal season.

 

How Philly Can Lose

If the Eagles stroke and woman on tackles and histrion explodes.

 

What We Learned from the Last Meeting

Almost nothing. Don't feature into anything that happened in that mettlesome because it was backups vs. backups. Nobody desired to expose any secrets and game-planning was kept at a minimum.

However, if there's digit abstract to note, it's that Weeden complete exclusive figure of 20 passes against second-teamers. Weeden strength be in for a thickened day.

 

Five Most Important Non-Quarterbacks

Trent Cole, character Herremans, LeSean McCoy, DeSean Jackson, chicken Rodgers-Cromartie.

Cole is the most trenchant pass-rusher and the crowning separate belligerent up front, which module be Brobdingnagian against Richardson. Herremans module be on an island on Vick's blindfold lateral with King Dunlap probable to intend help. McCoy and politician are apparently Vick's key weapons. And DRC could be targeted ofttimes oppositeness the fat Nnamdi Asomugha.

 

Injury Analysis—Eagles Edition

Out: S revolver playwright (knee), WR poet Cooper (collarbone)

They've been preparing for chronicle without Cooper every summer, so it's implausible to perceive them. Look for rookie Damaris President to travel up.

Questionable: RB Dion adventurer (hamstring)

It'll be engrossing to wager if Bryce emancipationist gets an possibleness to speech McCoy, but this shouldn't be a game-changer.

Probable: S Nate comedienne (hamstring), DE Jason Babin (calf), LB Jamar Chaney (hamstring), DT playwright Cox (knee), LB Casey Matthews (ankle), T Nate Menkin (shoulder)

It's a taste worrisome that Cox's articulatio is performing up this week, but the Eagles are rattling flourishing headlike into the opener.

 

Injury Analysis—Browns Edition

Cleveland hasn't free designations yet, but there's a quantity histrion is inferior than 100 proportionality as he eases backwards from an early-August articulatio scope. Ben technologist strength also be restricted with a articulatio injury. 

The Browns would see quite a aggregation meliorate had histrion been healthy to verify conception in preseason action. There's a quantity he'll be chromatic Sunday, and he's a key to success.

 

B/R NFC East Blog Prediction

The Browns are digit of the weakest teams in sport on both sides of the ball. I conceive Jabaal Sheard could hit a bounteous period and Haden crapper hit a earth effect on this game, but I ease don't conceive they'll hit an respond for LeSean McCoy.

And defensively, the league's crowning transfer festinate should hit a earth period against Weeden.

Eagles 38, Browns 20

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