Adoree' Jackson, who won just three games with New York last season, offers a refreshing perspective on Philadelphia's recent struggles and the team's winning culture.
Cornerback Adoree' Jackson had a refreshing take on the three-game losing streak the Eagles ended with a 31-0 rout of the Las Vegas Raiders Sunday at Lincoln Financial Field.fans as they watched their favorite team lose as many games over a three-week span as they did all last season on their way to, it seemed, was broken and never to be put together again after a five-game stretch in which the Eagles averaged 16.
2 points per game.to a team that looked like it might not repeat as the NFC East champion, a goal that is now directly in front of them.and 22 in four seasons up in East Rutherford, didn’t look around at his Eagles’ teammates after their third straight loss and see panic. “It’s a team that keeps putting its head down and keeps working,” Jackson said Sunday after the Eagles’ three-game losing streak came to an end with a 31-0 rout of the lowly Las Vegas Raiders at Lincoln Financial Field. “It’s a team that doesn’t get too high or too low at any moment, but remains steadfast on the main goal. Here, it’s about always competing and getting better.” Here it’s about winning and after the Dallas Cowboys lost to the Minnesota Vikings Sunday night the Eagles moved to within one victory of clinching a second straight NFC East title. They will get that chance Saturday night against the Washington Commanders. Jackson has seen the difference between this place and the mess he lived under up in North Jersey for nearly half a decade. “Once you’ve been on a losing team, it’s tough,” Jackson said. “Obviously you don’t want to associate yourself with that trait, but you come somewhere else and you see the difference in the way it’s done from the top on down. I only had one winning season in New York, so coming in here and seeing how they work and how they operate and seeing the joy and the pleasure they have in doing things, it really helped me get my mind out of — it’s a funk in a sense." It would be foolhardy to declare the Eagles back to Super Bowl contention status based on a win over one of the worst teams in the NFL. Good teams, however, do what the Eagles did when faced with an overmatched opponent. The Eagles scored on their opening 13-play drive to take the lead and never let the Raiders think they had a chance.responding to suggestions he should be benched by playing one of his best games of the season. When he connected withfor a 27-yard touchdown on a third-and-five play to start the fourth quarter, the quarterback was done for the day, but only after an animated on-field celebration. He followed up his five-turnover performance Monday night against the Chargers with a three-touchdown effort during which he completed 80% of his passes and posted a 154.9 passer rating. “We just haven’t been playing good ball,” offensive tackle Jordan Mailata said. “Let’s call it how it is. We haven’t played well, so you’ve got to celebrate the moments that we do execute and score a third-down touchdown, especially on a play as big as that one. I’m glad he showed that emotion.”“It was just a natural reaction,” he said. “I think it was just a step today. You have to treat every game individually and treat every day individually in pursuit of our best self.” That’s what Jackson was talking about. That’s what he has noticed about the Eagles’ players who have established the culture inside the building. It doesn’t just come from Hurts either. “We learned today that together we can do anything,” linebacker Nakobe Dean said after the Eagles allowed just 75 total yards on defense, the franchise’s lowest total since a December 1955 game against the Chicago Cardinals. “Our confidence didn’t waver one bit. The joy we have in practice was still there definitely from the defensive side of the ball. We were still good and loose. It never got grim.” It’s not that way everywhere. There are some places in the NFL that when the losing starts, it often becomes an avalanche and unpreventable disaster. It happened to the Eagles two seasons ago, but they refused to let it happen again when they stumbled out of the gate in 2024. “There’s a standard and we’ve got to play to it,” Dean said. “We don’t accept anything below it. There is such a thing as, ‘Yeah, you’re playing good, but you’re not playing good enough.’ It exists here, at least. We know we still have to turn it up another notch.” It’s impossible to say where this Eagles’ season is headed. We do know their resume is still pretty good. They’ve only lost twice to a team with a losing record. That was against the Giants in Week 6 and the Cowboys in Week 12. The other three losses were against teams with a combined 32-10 record and by a combined 16 points. Look at things through that lens and the three-game losing streak doesn’t seem nearly as harsh as the reaction it evoked. And if you look at things through Adoree’ Jackson’s NFL experience, you can see that a three-game losing streak wasn’t going to change the way the Eagles operate. “I do know everybody has their own hardships and if you think is bad, there are people that have it a lot worse,” Jackson said. “You can look around the league, you can look internally and externally at life in general. You always have to find the positives and you can’t harp on the negatives, but you use them as a tool to learn and get better.” A few lockers away from Jackson, fellow cornerback Michael Carter II listened to Jackson and briefly chimed in with, “Yeah, I’ve been around worse,” before walking away. Carter went 24-52 in his five seasons with the Jets, including 1-7 this season before being traded to the Eagles. “We lost three games in a row and that’s not what we want,” Jackson said. “But I don’t think our attitude, our demeanor or how we prepped wavered anywhere. We know things are going to happen and there are going to be ups and downs. You just have to stay steadfast on your exact vision.”Bob Brookover has been the Eagles beat reporter at NJ Advance Media since November of 2023. He joined the organization as a Giants beat writer in September 2022 after a 40-year career covering Philadelphia...
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