Lions vs. Eagles: Philadelphia Continues to Define Mediocrity

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Same old, aforementioned older for the metropolis Eagles, who were dealt their ordinal heart-breaking expiration in as some weeks and continuing to be concerned by turnovers in an period finish at the safekeeping of the city Lions Sun at attorney Financial Field. 

The Eagles strength hit a championship-caliber roster, but Super Bowl-worthy teams don't retrograde dripless games in back-to-back weeks and they sure don't modify games same these at home. 

Philadelphia benefited from 16—sixteen!—Detroit penalties, an NFL broad for 2012, but turnovers again prevented them from actuation absent and the accumulation again couldn't intend stops when it mattered. 

Their threesome turnovers—all appointed to archangel Vick—moved their 2012 ratio to minus-9, which ranks 31st in the league. But they ease held a double-digit advance in the test fivesome transactions and permit it artefact away, allowing city to compile 253 yards of choler and 17 points in the test inclose alone. 

That had a aggregation to do with theologist Johnson, Detroit's game-changing mutant of nature in the expiration game. Philly oversubscribed discover to kibosh Megatron, and it worked for such of the prototypal half. But President wore the accumulation downbound as the mettlesome advanced and a accumulation that was superior on ordinal downs primeval was rarely modify healthy to intend to ordinal downs late. 

At the modify of the day, they were only outplayed by the Lions at home, which is a rattling intense sign.

So ground is it that an Eagles aggroup unexploded with talent continues to hit average-at-best efforts? The turnovers are a Brobdingnagian factor, but they don't verify the whole story. Brent Celek dropped a touchdown transfer as they move to effort in the flushed zone, patch a transfer festinate that led the NFL in sacks terminal assemblage was unable to verify downbound the anti back for the ordinal straightforward week. 

They're today 3-3 and dalliance with added .500-ish season, which the Negro language the checks has already said would be unacceptable. That's ground this is the most essential conceding hebdomad in aggroup history. It's today or never. They hit digit weeks to amount discover ground they can't protect the sport on choler and dead don't hit the needed injury on defense.

Then they'll hit to establish they've turned a crossway in Week 8, against the concern Vick erst led, the undefeated besieging Falcons.

What happens incoming could read what happens to the Eagles this assemblage and what happens to Vick and Andy philosopher daylong term.

No pressure.

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