Road troubles continue for Wentz, Eagles

In October, every October, Seattle’s football juggernaut looks vulnerable, discombobulated, good but not necessarily great.

We’re getting better, we’re improving.

Also in Week 11, the NFL returns to Mexico for the first time since October 2, 2005 when a crowd of 103,467 witnessed the league’s first global regular-season game as the Arizona Cardinals defeated the San Francisco 49ers 31-14 at Estadio Azteca in Mexico City.

Agholor, the team’s first-round draft pick in 2015, committed a costly penalty and also dropped a pass during the Eagles’ 26-15 loss to Seattle at CenturyLink Field.

Webb has yet to start a game despite being Seattle’s highest-paid lineman.

The Seahawks meanwhile are top of the NFC West with a 6-2-1 record. Like Dallas Cowboys revelation Dak Prescott, another first-year signal caller, he is lauded for his poise and maturity in handling the position. They’re never a team that puts people away in September and October, but they get hot at the right time when November rolls around.

“We’re just getting better; we’re getting smarter and we’re growing”, Carroll said. “I don’t know why this always happens”. The Eagles were without RBs Ryan Mathews (knee) and Darren Sproles (ribs) for most of the second half. There hasn’t been any players-only confab.

Doug Baldwin has publicly challenged state attorneys general to change police training and policies in the wake of killing of minorities across the country. They haven’t needed it.

They’re really a good group.

Despite that, he’s not giving up on the team’s 20th-overall pick from a year ago. “A crappy situation. We back up once, we back up again, then we go bang-bang”. The Eagles are 4-0 at the Linc this season. How un-Seahawkian of them.

While Seattle’s offense has gotten back to looking like its old self in recent weeks, it’s still jarring to see the team so far down in the National Football League rushing rankings. The Eagles are 5-4, coming off a 24-15 win over the Atlanta Falcons.

Rookie C.J. Prosise made his second consecutive start and ran 72 yards behind right tackle Garry Gilliam, collapsing down Eagles stud defensive tackle Fletcher Cox for the game’s first score.

That Wilson-the one who turns dead plays into six points-has been re-emerging for several weeks now. It was the physicality with which he ran last season as the NFL’s leader in yards per carry as an undrafted rookie, before he broke his ankle in December.

That belonged to receiver Doug Baldwin – though Baldwin had to thank Wilson for his flawless passer rating of 158.3 after tossing a third-quarter 15-yard scoring pass to the Seattle quarterback on a trick play.

On their own, it was just two plays – Agholor lined up just off the line of scrimmage and thus the Eagles were called for illegal formation that negated a 57-yard catch and run for a touchdown to Zach Ertz; and then Agholor’s dropped pass over the middle would have netted at least 30 yards.

“I’m going to keep encouraging the kid”, head coach Doug Pederson said.

The Seattle Seahawks could be poised to string together a bunch of wins following their statement win against the Patriots last week. One could argue, and fairly easily, that this version could be better.

Graham looks healthy now.

The Seahawks forced Wentz to throw two interceptions and kept the Eagles’ offense in check for much of the game.

“It’s more amusing than it is anything”, Baldwin said. “I’ve been begging for that play for the past two or three weeks and they doubted my arm, doubted that I could make the throw”.

Joked Baldwin, “They doubted my arm ability”. In Sunday’s game, the wide receivers accounted for 10 receptions, many of them with the Seahawks playing prevent late in the fourth quarter.