Eagles having issues with defense

The Philadelphia Eagles play the Washington Redskins on Sunday at Lincoln Financial Field. He has caught 39 passes this season, including four for 55 yards in Washington’s 27-20 win over the Birds on October 16.

Next offseason, Wentz can spend more time tightening up his delivery now that he’s had time to learn the playbook. It’s why they need Fletcher Cox and Brandon Graham to get consistent pressure and keep Cousins out of a rhythm. In the first four games, Wentz had seven touchdowns and one interception and a quarter rating of 103.5.

Back then, Wentz hit nearly everything he aimed at, including that eight-point buck, although that’s another adventure for another day. The Birds have lost three straight games, dropped seven of nine and Pederson questioned the team’s effort this week after a lackluster showing during Sunday’s defeat in Cincinnati.

Washington’s defense isn’t so great that the Eagles won’t be able to have some success against them. They’re going to look at what we did against them and we’re going to look at we did against them… it’s going to come down to the last minute for both football teams. In those eight starts since, the Eagles are 2-6. Obviously, we felt we had opportunities in the game.

“You have to stay optimistic”, Wentz said. Not dialoguing with the media on game days, he explained again, is a product of staying out of the way of Eagles head coach Doug Pederson.

Of the plays in which some players, specifically safety Rodney McLeod, appeared to quit when the game was still quite within reach, he was equally supportive. After last week’s loss, Pederson said that some of Wentz’s mistakes were “strictly mechanics”. Baltimore and Kansas City also have picked off 14 passes.

At this point it helps to get an outside opinion.

It’s fair to say the Eagles are in the midst of a hard stretch. Sometimes it’s a coverage, sometimes it’s a rush, ” coach Jay Gruden said. “He has the ability to extend plays”. I think they’ve had some different receivers playing around him. Yeah. But I don’t think it’s happened as much as it could have, to be honest with you.

Hopefully the Eagles will get around to fixing their problems before they get on the field against the Redskins, who have the kind of firepower that can embarrass a team with a struggling offense such as the Eagles. This is actually the time to push forward and still be aggressive and do the things we did earlier in the season and try to get back to that level of play. But whenever they stay balanced they are similar to us.

Mathews, twice a 1,000-yard rusher, could well be playing his final few games as an Eagle.

Pardon the gratuitous “playing extremely well”.

Pittsburgh visits on December 18 and Baltimore on January 1 in the final regular-season game.

The 28-year-old Cousins ranks third in the National Football League with 3,811 passing yards and has 21 touchdowns against eight interceptions.

The defense’s improvement – with Burfict in the middle of everything – has come too late to make a difference in the Bengals’ season. Head coach and play-caller Doug Pederson may not know that, considering he had his rookie throw the ball 60 times last week and had only 15 called run plays to running backs. “Now, in some of the more recent losses, do you sense that this is, ‘Okay, he’s feeling this one, he’s feeling this one?’ Yeah, we’re all feeling it”. “It starts with me”.

“No game that we play is going to be easy”, Ziggy Hood said about this week’s NFC East matchup. The Eagles had 20 sacks in the first five games, but have only six in the last six.

Wentz, who has proven he can correct mistakes on the fly, needs to do that in the rematch against Washington.

“I don’t like to believe that, ‘Well, we did this, so I’m confident that it’s going to work out.’ I really feel you have to go back and earn it from the jump all over again”, Cousins said on a conference call.