Eagles News: Philadelphia’s passing attack “must improve, and fast”

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Handing out 10 awards from the Eagles-Chiefs game - PhillyVoice
5) The ‘Non-Threatening’ Award: The Eagles’ passing attack. Opposing defenses are predictably seeking to take away Saquon Barkley first and foremost, and so far, both Eagles opponents have held him under 100 yards. The passing game should be capitalizing on that, but so far, they haven’t. Jalen Hurts had just 101 passing yards on the day. If you include sacks, the Eagles as an offense had just 94 net passing yards. It’s not like they’re the Chiefs, missing their top two wide receivers. They have one of the best wide receiver duos in the NFL in A.J. Brown and DeVonta Smith. How can they not be making plays in the passing game? In Week 1 against Dallas, there just wasn’t much down the field that was open for Hurts, so he was forced to make plays with his legs. The tape will tell soon enough if Hurts was missing open receivers against the Chiefs. But what does feel evident is that the Eagles’ staff is not consistently scheming receivers open. That must improve, and fast.

Jalen Hurts, Kevin Patullo and the Tush Push: Eagles winning ugly is still winning football - Inquirer
Brown was fed the ball seven times before the half, but only once in the final 30 minutes. He wasn’t complaining afterward, but he said he understood if there would be public griping. “I think the reason why people may talk about it is because they want to know … can you sustain that throughout the season?” Brown said. “So I think that’s fair. I think that’s a fair thing to talk about.” Patullo has been with Sirianni for eight seasons dating back to their time with the Colts. He isn’t new to the team like former coordinator Kellen Moore was last year, or as inexperienced as Moore’s predecessor, Brian Johnson, was after replacing Shane Steichen. But, like Johnson, Patullo had never been a coordinator or called plays at any level.

Roob’s Instant Observations after Eagles’ third straight win over Chiefs - NBCSP
I don’t want to harp on it because this was a huge win in a very difficult place to play. But the A.J. Brown thing is ridiculous. One catch for eight yards in the opener and 5-for-27 Sunday in K.C., and he’s just too good to have 35 yards two games into the season. I know it’s not about stats. But 35 yards? A.J. Brown? You don’t want to force it to him, but Kevin Patullo and Nick Sirianni have to figure out ways to get Brown involved. The dude is a top-5 wide receiver in the NFL. Just may be a top-3 wide receiver. Nobody can cover him. Nobody can stop him. He’s too good for this to be happening.

Eagles vs. Chiefs: 13 winners, 1 loser, and 8 IDKs - BGN
KEVIN PATULLO: Seeing a lot of Patullo criticism coming out of this game. Not hard to understand why considering that this offense produced just 94 net passing yards one week after the Chiefs gave up 304 to the Los Angeles Chargers. The Eagles simply have too much talent to not be more productive. At the same time, I think there’s room for more nuance here than OFFENSE BAD = OFFENSIVE COORDINATOR BAD. I’m not saying Patullo is definitely good. He very well might not be! But I do believe a two-game sample size as a play-caller isn’t enough to draw definitive conclusions.

Eagles-Chiefs takeaways with BLG - The Ringer’s Philly Special
The Eagles defeated the Chiefs, 20-17, in a rematch of Super Bowl LIX. Even though the Eagles did come out victorious, there were some concerns about the offense. Sheil and Brandon Lee Gowton of Bleeding Green Nation review the game and the challenges that lie ahead for the Eagles. What were the biggest takeaways the guys got from the game ()? Jalen Hurts and Chiefs All-Pro DT Chris Jones got into a little spat about Hurts not throwing for more than 100 yards. What did that moment say about Hurts ()? Why did the offense look and perform the way it did? Does new OC Kevin Patullo need to go deeper in the playbook ()? Where are the explosive plays ()? What stood out on the defensive side of the ball ()? Plus, Andrew Mukuba’s turnover and BLG’s Uncrustables story.

Chiefs No More - Iggles Blitz
The Chiefs could have won the game if they made a few more plays and cleaned up some mistakes. But that’s part of the point. They used to be the team that did those things. They found a way to win when they shouldn’t. That version of the Chiefs isn’t around right now. They are good enough to keep things close and to compete, but the magic that made them special seems to be gone. Maybe they’ll get some of that back when their WRs get healthy. Still, this team just feels different. This game made you appreciate Vic Fangio even more than you already did. He shut down KC with good coverage and a strong pass rush back in February. This time around he let his defense do more attacking. We saw Zack Baun and Jihad Campbell both blitz. We saw Drew Mukuba blitz and get part of a sack. There might have been others as well. Fangio gave Mahomes different looks and that strategy worked brilliantly.

Eagles-Chiefs Instant Reactions: Vic Fangio’s defense, DeVonta Smith deep ball improves the Eagles to 2-0 - PHLY
I know this will not be the thing that matters most from this game, but I’m still mad about the way the Eagles ended the first half. Yes, they were boned by the refs on the picked-up pass interference flag on the Chiefs defensive back covering DeVonta Smith (the guy who threw the flag was the one looking right at it the whole time, how on Earth did he get talked out of that?) downfield (for ONCE!). And yes, the refs/New York boned them again in not reviewing A.J. Brown’s third-down catch on which it looked like he rolled over the Chiefs defender into first-down territory. Those caveats noted, there were 33 seconds left in the half with the ball on the 34-yard-line and the Eagles had two timeouts. That is PLENTY of time to try to potentially score a touchdown or, at least, shorten the length of the pending field goal. And yes, I’m counting the Tush Push 4th-and-1 conversion as a fait accompli, as Nick Sirianni did in going for it in his own territory earlier in the first half. Instead, Sirianni opted to meekly let the clock run down before a weird false start penalty on Charley Hughlett turned Elliott’s field goal in a 58-yarder, which he gamely converted. So much for acting like the champs.

2025 NFL season, Week 2: What We Learned from Sunday’s games - NFL.com
Eagles’ Mukuba came up big. Eagles rookie Andrew Mukuba made several big plays in this game, including a first-half sack and a great third-down tackle short of the sticks one play prior to the Eagles forcing a turnover on downs on the Chiefs’ first possession of the second half. But Mukuba’s biggest play was the interception of Mahomes off Kelce’s hands that he nearly ran back for a touchdown. That was potentially a 14-point swing there, keeping the Chiefs out of the end zone and setting up the Eagles’ offense on what would be the game-winning TD. Mukuba missed a tackle that could have forced a fourth down, and he did rotate some with Sydney Brown, but the rookie looks like he could be a fascinating addition to this defense. He wasn’t part of last season’s Super Bowl victory, but helping the Eagles win in Arrowhead isn’t a terrible consolation prize.

Spadaro: 10 observations from a dramatic win over the Chiefs - PE.com
Let’s talk about the rookies: Keep in mind, as Fangio learns about his defense, that he is starting two rookies in the mix, Mukuba and linebacker Jihaad Campbell. In this game, Mukuba had 6 total tackles, half a quarterback sack, the interception … he did it all. Mukuba is all over the field and he’s going to get better and better. Campbell tied with Cooper DeJean with a team-high seven total tackles and played well in coverage. This is a solid defense that had a physical test against a Kansas City team that just lost its third straight game – the first for Mahomes in his career – and played so much better as the game went along.

Chiefs-Eagles Week 2 Rapid Reaction: A bad loss with some good qualities - Arrowhead Pride
The bottom line: This will be a very tough loss for the Chiefs to handle. It is likely to reverberate throughout the season. But the team actually played well enough to have a real opportunity to win the game. There were at least three points where single plays could have made the difference: Harrison Butker’s 58-yard miss in the first quarter, Mahomes’ interception (which represented a 14-point swing) and Andy Reid’s fourth-and-1 call in the third quarter. So in many ways, this one-score loss was very similar to a number of games the Chiefs played in 2024. It’s just that things didn’t fall their way — or they didn’t execute well enough — at critical moments. Does this game represent the beginning of a return to the mean, or the team losing its ability to find a way to win? Time will tell.

Dallas Cowboys vs. New York Giants: Cowboys win THRILLER in overtime, 40-37! - Blogging The Boys
The Dallas Cowboys played one of the most chaotic games of all time on Sunday. The fourth quarter featured 41 total points and the winning team (Dallas!) possessed the ball three times in overtime. It was a thrilling way for the Cowboys to pick up their first win of the season and first under the leadership of Brian Schottenheimer as head coach. Winning cures all and this 1-1 team now feels good about football for the first time in a while. The Dallas Cowboys are 1-1! Let’s go!

Giants-Cowboys ‘Kudos & Wet Willies’ - Big Blue View
Regulation Russ — Russell Wilson was PHENOMENAL in regulation. His 450 passing yards were two short of his career high, set against the Houston Texans in 2017. Wilson was 30 of 41 and three 3 touchdown passes. He hit Malik Nabers with a perfectly thrown moon ball for a 48-yard score with :25 left that nearly won the game for New York. He had a 33-yard fourth-down touchdown strike to Wan’Dale Robinson. He had a 52-yard pass to Robinson. Russ was cookin’. This was vintage Wilson, the kind of game that will quiet the “Jaxson Dart needs to start” narrative for a while.

Malik Nabers’ moon ball TD from Russell Wilson highlighted wild Cowboys-Giants game - SB Nation
Wilson launched a vertical throw towards Nabers, who somehow got behind the Dallas secondary and settled under the throw for a go-ahead touchdown with less than 25 seconds remaining. Which was enough for Dallas. Prescott drove Dallas into Giants’ territory, with the Cowboys running the ball when facing a 1st-and-10 situation at the New York 49-yard line. Facing 2nd-and-7 at the 46, Brian Schottenheimer was confident sending Brandon Aubrey on for a 64-yard field goal attempt. Aubrey drilled it, forcing overtime from 64 yards out.

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