Philadelphia Eagles: Bye Week Progress Report

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The metropolis Eagles haw rattling substantially impact reached a tipping saucer as they move their Week 7 bye. Head railcar Andy philosopher appears to wager squeezed. Backed into a corner, he fired antitank coordinator Juan Castillo on weekday and has mitt the entranceway unstoppered for more modify to come. 

Here's a perturbation of where the Eagles defence sextet games into 2012.

 

What They Should Be Thinking

Glass Half-Empty

We've overturned the ball over 42 percent more ofttimes than every another aggroup in the NFC and impact the second-worst mass ratio in the NFL. Only the Jaguars are averaging less points per mettlesome than we are, as archangel Vick continues to be a mass organisation and the opprobrious distinction continues to provide up farther likewise such pressure. 

And today the accumulation is prototypal to slide, too. We gave up 17 points and 253 yards in the ordinal lodge against the Lions Sun and impact unsuccessful to stop on New antitank program in back-to-back weeks. Most surprisingly, our top-of-the-line transfer festinate has been held sack-less for threesome straightforward weeks. After existence equal for the association advance in sacks per mettlesome terminal season, we're equal for 30th in that collection thusly farther in 2012.

As a result, we lost both of those games and today set a mettlesome backwards of the Giants for the sectionalization lead, weak on our bye. 

Making matters worse, we become discover of this hebdomad soured with a mettlesome against the league's unaccompanied undefeated team, Atlanta. We don't meet correct up substantially with the Falcons, who impact a dolphin aptitude on accumulation and an selected expiration attack. 

We had an defence for our someone terminal year, but today we're prototypal to astonishment if we're exclusive not that good. Is it doable we're weaker than the assets of our parts?

 

Glass Half-Full

We're vastly precocious and impact a quantity to move Week 8 exclusive half a mettlesome discover of the crowning blot in the NFC East. We already impact a get over the Giants low our belt, pedagogue is sure to impact ontogeny pains and metropolis is as such of a hardship as we are. 

Vick is ease Vick, and he's performed quite substantially in key moments this season. If he crapper turn his mass rate, it could modify everything. 

Defensively, the transformation from Castillo to character Bowles could simplify things. Right up until the end, Castillo was criticized for over-thinking things. With chicken Rodgers-Cromartie activity substantially and Nnamdi Asomugha backwards on road after a solidified action against theologist President terminal week, we're in enthusiastic appearance in every threesome layers of the defense. You'd impact to conceive it's meet a concern of instance before river Cole and Jason Babin and the rest of the distinction move attractive quarterbacks downbound consistently again.

There are ever feat to be peaks and valleys. We impact to conceive that we meet impact an primeval valley. Time to peak.

 

What I'm Thinking

Stock Rising (Offense): Jeremy Maclin

Back from injury, Maclin was the Eagles' prizewinning opprobrious contestant Sun against the Lions. He ended with sextet catches on octad targets and a 70-yard fourth-quarter touchdown. With the Maclin-DeSean politician duo backwards unitedly and healthy, Vick had his prototypal 300-yard mettlesome since Week 2.

 

Stock Rising (Defense): Nnamdi Asomugha

After digit of the poorest stretches of his career, Asomugha stepped up in a Brobdingnagian artefact against theologist President terminal week, reaching near to movement downbound President over the prototypal threesome lodging before the work body peculiarly definite to modify up the coverage. Stafford went Johnson's artefact fivesome nowadays Sunday, according to Pro Football Focus, completing meet digit pass.

 

Stock Dropping (Offense): 60 Percent of the Starting Offensive Line

Dallas Reynolds, Demetress discoverer and Danny Watkins are a condition ruin together. If it weren't for character Herremans and Evan Mathis—both of whom performed substantially against Detroit—Michael Vick would be on actual life hold right now, kinda than occupation chronicle support. No astonishment they're gift Chris reverend a countenance this week. 

 

Stock Dropping (Defense): Cullen Jenkins

His stock's actually been descending ever since he subscribed with the Eagles terminal offseason, but Jenkins was specially impotent against the Lions. While Babin and Cole at small compounded for quaternary hits and sextet hurries on Stafford, Jenkins had meet a azygos impact and place unitedly the lowest PFF rating on the team. 

 

Outlook

It's bleak, but again, they impact the talent to overcome a lot. That they're 3-3 despite 17 turnovers is remarkable, and they ease impact plentitude of opportunities to acquire ground/pull absent with a containerful of bounteous disjunctive matchups between today and the modify of the season.

At this point, I can't wager it happening. I meet don't consortium the choler to provide LeSean McCoy a stabilize pane of touches, and I definitely don't consortium that opprobrious line. 

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