After watching Jalen Hurts take a big hit last week, Nick Sirianni did the smart thing, writes ByDavidMurphy. He gave his Eagles starters the day off.
The best thing about the second week of the NFL preseason is that there is only one more week of it remaining. It used to be that you could at least root for guys to stay healthy. Now, the guys don’t even play. Of course, it also used to be that there were four of these things. Future generations will marvel that we had any.
Which is fine. Smart, even. When you consider the dollar value of every regular-season day lost to injury, it makes little sense to expose these players to a full-contact environment where there are no stakes. The Eagles had already spent two full days scrimmaging against the Browns during the joint practice sessions they held on Thursday and Friday. Which meant they had even less to gain from the “official” exhibition on Sunday.
All of this is to say that the questions that will come to define the Eagles this season are very much the same as they were before Sunday. Can a team have an elite defense without an elite — or even very good — safety? What if that team has Darius Slay and James Bradberry as its cornerbacks?
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