Rich Eisen: Eagles Showed Off Their “Super Bowl-Caliber” Defense in MNF Win over the Packers

Rich Eisen: Eagles Showed Off Their “Super Bowl-Caliber” Defense in MNF Win over the Packers

Well, let’s talk about uh the Monday Night Football game. Do we have to? Well, yeah, we will because, you know, obviously just woke up. It’s going to leave a mark. It’s left a mark and and um we’ll look at it from the top down first of all. Uh the NFC standings, the Eagles wound up being one going into the game because they were off last week when everybody else lost in front of them and they’re still one now. Um one game over the Seahawks. I don’t want to bore you with the details of the uh the tie breaks. Um, and the Rams, they’re one and the Packers drop all the way from first place in their division, two third place in their division. They’re seventh overall now. And the Bears are in second place in the NFC North and have some, wait for it, wildcard cushion. Here we go. That’s what the final score of last night’s 10-7 sometimes difficult to watch, but exhilarating, sometimes nonetheless, Monday Night Football contest in Lambeau Field. We’ll take it one team at a time here. And of course, we have to start with the defending Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles, who are now 7 and2 with a dynamite Super Bowl caliber defense. Oh my god, do they have a terrific defense. I think it it was funny last night uh Joe Buck when uh the Monday Night Football broadcast was introducing the defense of Philadelphia and he he basically said here’s the defense of the Philadelphia Eagles, you know, most of them played from Georgia, you know, most of them from Georgia. And he’s not wrong. Nolan Smith got activated before the game last night. He’s been hurt. Georgia. Yeah. Okay. Jaylen Carter, who is one of the best, if not arguably the best at his position, a game wrecker of the A++ variety from the middle of the defensive line. Where’ he go? Georgia. Hey, uh, Christopher, we we love this guy when he was playing for Georgia. Nico Dean is back and healthy and he’s making open field tackles. One that he made on Um Josh Jacobs in the fourth quarter last night in the middle of the field and he also was the one on the sack of Jordan Love. Ball popped up in the air and he tried to slap it at Josh Jacobs, but it was a fumble. And of course, you know who recovered this fumble? the guy who Howie Roseman acquired from the Miami Dolphins for a third round pick that we were wondering. Anybody else want to throw a third round pick at the Miami Dolphins for Jaylen Phillips? Anybody? Buler. Buler. I understand that reference pop culture reference probably lost on the USC students. Give them credit, Rich. They go to USC, but I don’t take but they don’t take a day off like Ferris Buer. That’s the reference I was. Okay, I got some thumbs up. I don’t feel that old. Listen, anybody else want to flip a three because it’s going to be better than Philadelphia is more likely than not. Miami would have said sold. And anybody who didn’t is got to be looking at, oh, so Jaylen Phillips recovers that fumble. Oh, okay. He’s now part of this Philadelphia defense and the back end. What? Quinn Quinanimo Bay, right? Is that what it is called? Is that what they’re calling it? And and Cooper Deene and the rest of those guys in the back end. Well, you know what McAfee calls him. Amazing whites. Exciting. Exciting whites. Ah. So, well, I mean, that’s the the photograph in in your your local wine shop. Okay. So, defensively, check the box. There are some box checking of the Philadelphia Eagles that I think we’ve come to see in their Super Bowl window. uh era of Nick Serriani, okay? And and one of them is, you know, more likely than not, terrific defense. Okay. Vic Fangio is dialing it up, the whole business. And then it’s just uh offensively they’re mystifying. They mystify you outside of running it through Saquon Barkley for 2,000 yards plus in last year’s campaign. It It’s like if he’s not working, it’s just not working. And it looks brutal. It looks completely like toothpulling for first downs. And Jaylen Herz, for whatever reason, on third and long, isn’t even targeting AJ Brown or Devonte Smith. There are multiple third and longs last night. And he’s just like checking it down. He’s not even checking out what’s going on. AJ Brown, two catches in the first half, buck kiss in the second half. So, um, you know, it it it, uh, it it it then leads to the the now seemingly weekly occurrence of a press conference of what’s up with the offense, Jaylen Herz. And then he’ll give you a sound bite where it’s all business and it gives you nothing else to hang your hat on. Hit it. When we look at ourselves in the mirror, it’s not a capability thing. It’s not a capability thing at all. you know, we we’re very confident in what we can do. We just got to go out there and play at a high level more consistently and, you know, I think this game was a perfect example of what it could be when we take advantage of our opportunities and then um when we don’t control the things that we can, how they can hinder us. Anybody pick something up there? I’m getting sick of this. Don’t get sick of it. I mean, cuz he’s your Super Bowl MVP from last year and he could be again this year. And um No. There’s Okay. No chance because guess what? Another earmark of an Eagles game is weird stuff. And I just gave you some weird stuff. The weird stuff. Weird stuff like we’re going to run tush pushes and this league is so on officiating to officiate this stuff, right? And the first tush push against a team that tried to legislate it out of football happens three snaps into the first drive for the Philadelphia Eagles. And one of their offensive lineman is clearly moving before the snap. Clearly moving. He was in the defensive and the officials who are who have been told to be on their P’s and Q’s for this are staring right down the line and all the 194k cameras that ESPN has on this line of scrimmage is capturing a clearfall start and they don’t call it. It’s embarrassing. And then at the end of the game, after watching all the teeth getting pulled on offense, the Philadelphia Eagles defense gets another turnover. Mhm. On a run play on fourth down with the Packers having the ball at the end of the game with a chance to tie it and force overtime. They get another turnover, this Eagles defense, on a play that Josh Jacobs said the Eagles were calling out before the snap. Again, we’ll talk about the Packers later on in this hour. The Eagles get the ball back. They got to run out the clock best they can. They’ve got Saquon Barkley to do it. They’ve got to burn through the Packers timeouts first. At one point, they throw it. Like, what are they doing? But that’s in the previous possession that eventually led to Green Bay having a chance to tie it only to fumble it back to the Philadelphia Eagles. Now they’re just going to run Saquon Barkley all the way to fourth down. At which point with the Packers out of timeouts, but the Eagles need to burn off the last 30 seconds on fourth down, do they punt it? M do they just run Jaylen Herz around before maybe getting him up the field something to burn some time off? I would have punted it instead. Try again. This is when he decides to target AJ Brown. Hey, why not? On a deep ball down the left side. That’s as 5050 coin flip as you possibly can get when this analytics driven franchise clearly has a percentage on a way a punt would work out. I’m not a nextgen stats guy. I’m imagining the odds of percentages were better than 50/50 of the punt working out. Probably 90. And that’s the way the Packers get the ball back. needing only 20 yards or 30 yards to get a decent field goal shot. No timeouts left. I don’t get that decision at all. Let’s see if the um explanation from the head coach lends any more clarity than the quarterback did about the offensive struggles. I would have liked to be in a little closer to kick a field goal. Um, but the closer we would have got, the the more again, you play every situation a little bit differently. But I didn’t want I think we were It was into the wind on that one. Um, I knew the kick would have to be a little bit lower trajectory um of a kick on that on that particular one. I got a lot of faith in our offense. Um, it it didn’t work out on this one. You know, uh, I stand put on that decision. um you know, especially being up three cuz you go up six, they’re still going to need a touchdown, be a Hail Mary, everything like that. So, we would have ended the game if we would have got that and then got a lot of faith in our guys to be able to do that. Now again, this is a simal cast on the radio and uh dead air doesn’t do well on the radio, but after hearing that, I just have to say, what what huh? What? Huh? What? Like the Nick Young swag of like Huh? I don’t understand that at all. But it leads to the last check mark of Philadelphia Eagles Super Bowl era window opening type of football. They won. They won. And Nick Serriani wins his 55th career game as head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles. That is tied for the fifth most all time by a head coach in their first five career seasons. The only ones with more Mike Smith, how about them apples back in the day with the Falcons. Interesting. Okay. Matt Laflur, who’s losing last night, has everybody questioning his job status, even to his face in the postgame press conference. Fair. Two fewer than Paul Brown with 57 and George Seaffort with 62. Win w I am. Put up the NFC standings one more time if you wouldn’t mind, Mr. Hoskins. And I’ll explain to the radio audience, there’s no photographs attached to that. No photographs of the offensive struggles or the weird decisions and the tush pushes that they get away with with movement before and Saquon Barkley coming in and out of the game and AJ Brown not getting targets and Devonte Smith getting one and coming up with the one touchdown necessary, yada yada yada. They win. Yeah, but who are you picking in a game against the rest of the teams behind the You’re not picking the Eagles. I get it. Until the Eagles do show up and put it all together. Well, that’s that’s a pretty big if. Or they don’t. You could say that all you want, pal. And I’m going to keep doing it. They’re seven and two. Yeah. Yep. They could be I don’t know 3 five and one. Yeah, exactly. Like the 11th seated Dallas Cowboys at present. Or the Packers at 53 and one. Yeah. Once upon a time 51-1. Once upon a time, the team that eviscerated the Detroit Lions in their home in week one. Yeah, that’s the preseason. There should be only now to lose back-to-back games against the Panthers and Eagles at home. Again, we’ll talk about the Packers later on, but the Philadelphia Eagles, despite the weirdness and the wildness and the headscratching and the yeah, this that, but the only earmark of the more recent days of the Super Bowl window that has yet to appear is the passive aggressive proverb being posted by AJ Brown postgame, which he is yet to do or chooses not to do. Oh, I looked before the show, Chris. It’s not there. Okay. There’s nothing there. Although I only looked on uh one social media site. I haven’t I haven’t scrubbed them all. But that’s that’s part of your I’ll check your end of the business, Chris. Hasn’t happened yet. 1K. Maybe that’ll happen. Uh, but say what you will, the Philadelphia Eagles are a top the NFC entering week 11 as they are next up against the Detroit Lions on Sunday Night Football. Holy smokes. That game, in case you’re wondering, is in fact in Philadelphia before they visit Dallas again to try and sweep the Cowboys. That Bears game the day after Thanksgiving gets better and better. every single week making that visit to Philadelphia for Al Michaels more than just about one of his favorite four seasons. Um, and then there’s the Monday nighter here against the Chargers, our neighbors across the way. Hey, you made it all the way to the end. Thanks for that. Check us out every single day streaming live on Disney Plus and the ESPN app 12 to 3 Eastern.

Rich Eisen weighs in on the playoff implications of the Philadelphia Eagles’ Monday Night Football win over the Green Bay Packers in a sloppy, defense-heavy game.

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