Eagles soar past Saints

It’s also the first time we’ve seen this kind of a game from the Eagles offense under Bradford.

October 11, 2015; Philadelphia, PA, United States of America; New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton calls plays from the sideline during a game against the Philadelphia Eagles at Lincoln Financial Field.

-RUN DEFENSE: B. The Eagles gave up 29 rushing yards to the Saints on their first four carries, but tightened things up after that, holding them to 57 yards on their next 16 carries before Khary Robinson’s meaningless 10-yard run with two minutes left in the game. Right now, lady luck is not helping as well with the Saints toting a woeful 1-4 record. That’s what the Saints are up against now.

He carried eight times in Washington and the Eagles lost by three. “We weren’t trying to find our identity. It was about staying the course and continuing to believe in each other and the system and it worked out for us”. Just tell us who’s available and we’ll go from there.

Sam Bradford was excellent, DeMarco Murray didn’t complain and the offense did put up the 39-spot.

Well, after the warmups Bradford conducted an impromptu meeting with various and sundry members of the offense.

“All we have is each other”, he said. We could debate the two poor INT decisions all day but it would have been very easy to lose the teams confidence at that point…instead, he earned it back. We know what to do.

No, you do not get an “amen” here.

In what amounted to basically a playoff game in early October, the Philadelphia Eagles came out and defeated the New Orleans Saints on Sunday. “But we have good character guys, so I’m not anxious about that”.

“You ignore half of that stuff and obviously dismiss it”, Payton said.

The Eagles tied the game early in the second quarter, but not before another Bradford pass was intercepted in the end zone, this time by cornerback Delvin Breaux. Huff somersaulted into the end zone for emphasis.

Sacrificing personal stats for team goals has cost Fletcher Cox individual glory.

Cox’s highlights from his coming out party on Sunday included strip-sacking Drew Brees and recovering the fumble, and a second quarter sack of Brees for a ten yard loss, which pushed the Saints out of field goal range.

“All three of those sacks were coverage sacks”, he said. His replacement, Benjamin Watson, caught three passes for 36 yards and a TD on Sunday, and he’s on pace to finish the season with 48 catches for 444 yards and three TDs. The one downside: the Eagles gave up a season-high seven pass plays of 20 or more yards, including 59- and 46-yard completions.

Bradford found Brent Celek for a 13-yard scoring pass giving the Eagles a 23-10 advantage with 6:31 left in the third quarter.

Brandin Cooks went over 100 yards on the day with a TD, but it came when the game was already out of hand. That didn’t work either.

“We knew the type of game this was going to be, the type of offense that Philly has”, quarterback Drew Brees said. “We needed to get something going”. We’re all going to make mistakes. Today’s game has an afternoon start time and will air on a network TV channel in a few markets alongside being made available as a live stream online option. But Bradford threw short in the end zone, Brandon Browner picking it off while Cooper, the intended receiver watched. Brees was sacked five times, while the receivers struggled to get open. During the change-of-possession timeout, Kelly held a lengthy discussion with referee Ronald Torbert and field judge Aaron Santi. You just have to make sure that the players, coaches and everyone understands what the focus is. Now, the Saints (1-4) have just three days to shave the sides off their square pegs, and make them a better fit for their round holes before they host NFC South Division-leading, undefeated Atlanta (5-0) in a nationally televised game Thursday night in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome.