The Eagles want to win, of course. But they also want to win a certain way. And relying on their running game isn't it.
that the Eagles scored just 16 points in a playoff victory in Chicago in January 2019. There’s a reason that he wasn’t thrilled when they relied on Jordan Howard and Miles Sanders to beat the Packers in Green Bay later that year.
There’s a reason that, once Hurts unfurled his marvelous 2022 season, Lurie signed him to that five-year extension, worth as much as $255 million, in April. And that reason wasn’t so that Hurts could stand by and watch D’Andre Swift become a hometown hero in his Lincoln Financial Field debut.“We’re not in a panic mode or anything like that,” Sirianni said. “Have the pass numbers been down? Yeah. Does the defense play into that? Of course it does.
“I thought Brian and the offensive staff did a phenomenal job of saying, ‘Hey, OK, they’re packing this in the middle of the field right here and keeping all these guys high and having this three-down front. All right, cool. You guys are doing that. We’ll do what we have to do to win the game.’” It’s nice that the Eagles can do that. It’s one of the qualities that makes them a Super Bowl favorite. But it doesn’t change the fact that, at their core, they don’t really want to do that. And make no mistake: Against the 2-0 Tampa Bay Buccaneers this Monday night, there will be pressure on Sirianni and Johnson to get Hurts going. Just being real.
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