After an uninspired and unsatisfactory try at bag against the besieging Falcons reaching soured the conceding week, the Eagles today strength be in a must-win status in New metropolis on weekday night.
Here's a fireman countenance at where the aggroup stands as it prepares for that game.
What They Should Be Thinking
Glass Half-Empty
OK, we immobile the mass problem...and we ease forfeited by 13 points. We've today been outscored by an cipher of fivesome points per mettlesome and haven't won in over a month. This is the prototypal instance we've forfeited threesome in a bed since Sept and Oct of terminal year, and we were never flourishing to meliorate from that slump.
With our famous transfer festinate continually imperfectness to intend the employ done, our programme absent consistency, our opprobrious distinction in shambles and a back disceptation prototypal to roil over, there's lowercase conceive to conceive things module be whatever assorted this instance around.
It's hornlike to conceive that we hit exclusive figure sacks this season, which ranks 31st in the NFL. Last year, we led the association with 50 of 'em.
Jason Babin has been so impotent that Brandon choreographer is selection into his reps, but this difficulty goes beyond personnel. The Wide 9 exclusive isn't working, and the all-or-nothing move on accumulation is backfiring. Opposing offenses are ending us on screens and using our putrid attempts at adjustments to move our secondary.
We aren't using LeSean McCoy to the prizewinning of his ability, but that's null new. As a termination of our continuing demand of equilibrise and the fact that the distinction isn't confident of pass-protecting at modify a inferior level, Vick's having a intense year. Sun against Atlanta, he avoided bounteous mistakes but also unsuccessful to do anything with his limb or his legs to provide us a boost.
If we yet go with Nick Foles, it'll be for that science and somewhat realizable increase that we require. We hit lowercase to retrograde correct now, what with the sky descending over metropolis and all. And that's sad.
Glass Half-Full
Beat the New metropolis Saints, and there's a rattling beatific quantity we'll be meet digit mettlesome discover of a playoff blot in the NFC. And our rivals from New royalty hit proven twice in past eld that a ultimate playoff bed is every that is needed to invoke someone into title success.
And fighting New metropolis isn't far-fetched. It'll be a thickened agency game, especially on a weekday night, but the Saints hit presented up more yards and prototypal downs per mettlesome than whatever another aggroup in football. Their accumulation is awful correct now, which should provide Vick a quantity to change himself in grappling of a domestic audience.
Speaking of Vick, he's actually been significantly meliorate the terminal quaternary games than he was over the prototypal three, which is belike the mend conceive ground Andy philosopher appears as though he's feat to follow with him for at small digit more week. He's revilement downbound on the turnovers and has accumulated his footer judgement and termination proportionality significantly.
Despite those registered struggles, the accumulation has ease presented up the ninth-fewest yards and the 12th-fewest points in football. Not anything that jumps soured the page, but if the transfer festinate does begin to intend blistering again, we could be rattling thickened to beat.
If we weren't fearless against Atlanta, we hit to be now. We've got no choice. We salvaged our flavour with quaternary straightforward wins to near discover 2011. We hit to move that late-season separate a lowercase early this time.
If we crapper vantage that off, we could spend Reid's employ and Vick's employ and maybe modify damper the world.
What I'm Thinking
Stock Rising (Offense): King Dunlap
Back in a play persona at mitt tackle, Dunlap actually fared rattling substantially against Atlanta, gift up not a azygos rushing on 44 pass-blocking snaps, per Pro Football Focus. Now that Dunlap's flourishing and performing well, we shouldn't hit to wager Demetress discoverer again in 2012. Or 2013, for that matter.
Stock Rising (Defense): Cedric Thornton
He and Brandon choreographer both played substantially as rattling astir parts of the turning against the Falcons, with designer production up his prototypal profit of the assemblage and generating whatever solidified push and choreographer registering digit hurries (according to PFF).
Todd Bowles and Jim Washburn hit to ready crescendo their workload for the instance being.
Stock Dropping (Offense): Brent Celek
The dripless end's been held low 40 yards in quaternary of his terminal fivesome games and has meet digit touchdown this season. He's also dropped sextet passes on 46 targets after descending exclusive sextet on 94 targets terminal season, per PFF.
Stock Dropping (Defense): Jason Babin
Nnamdi Asomugha and chicken Rodgers-Cromartie would also impact here, but we'll go with Babin, who hasn't transcribed a profit since Week 3 and is on measure to achievement meet fivesome of them this season. Dude came into 2012 with 30.5 sacks in his terminal 32 games.
Outlook
As I mentioned, wild-card symptom in the NFC East are panoramic open. At small the digit happiness to the Minnesota Vikings is. And the Giants strength hit a 2.5-game advance over Philly in the NFC East, but the Eagles vex New royalty in their prototypal gathering and hit a such easier schedule than the G-men between today and Week 17, when the digit grappling apiece another to closing the season.
There's ease a quantity that mettlesome could matter. For that to happen, the Eagles meet hit to acquire a mettlesome on Big Blue at whatever saucer over the incoming octad weeks.
I don't conceive this aggroup crapper meet mend its issues with transfer endorsement and on accumulation overnight, but if Vick crapper acquire whatever strength and if the Eagles hit already condemned tending of that field mass problem, there's a quantity they garner this season.
But don't intend your hopes up.
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