The Eagles are looking at a great match up this week against the injury stricken Bengals who are missing their two top offensive weapons in AJ Green, and Giovani Bernard. Cincinnati has been struggling of late of course, but the Eagles tend to give up a lot to cold streak teams.
The Eagles offense needs to be kicked into overdrive and get the run going asap. It’s getting to the point where they are playing from behind so much they resort to passing and can’t establish the run. Ryan Mathews is questionable for the game meaning we may see a lot more from Smallwood and Sproles. However, the problem with the run game this week is going to be the stellar Bengals D-Line starring Geno Atkins. Jason Kelce will have to pop up pretty quick after the snap to hold off the big man run stopper. As for our receiving core? It’s Turner time and we all will be looking forward to see what our new slot guy will do. Then again looking at our receivers, we are starting 2 rookies that we called up from the practice squad, Jordan is hurt, and Agholor is just awful. So don’t expect much from them this week anyway with their youth and lack of knowledge of the playbook. I can see Wentz throwing a pick or two because of their route running miscues.
Shwartz. We need you this week man. We need you to pump up this defense like you did in the first 3 weeks and get them back on track. I mean come on, we have the talent, they just keep getting burnt. For your information, yes, you do in fact need a QB spy even against someone like Andy Dalton. So for the fans sake, please put Hicks in the middle and keep him there so Dalton can’t go outside the pocket for too long. Now let’s be honest it should be an easy week on D, because they lost a lot of key players already. Their #1 WR and RB are benched due to injury which will surely benefit the Eagles this week. That doesn’t mean we can sleep on them though. Jeremy Hill has had blow up games before and this new Burkhead kid has torn up defenses for huge runs before. Not to mention the wily veteran Brandon Lafell has no problem getting open, Boyd has taken over as Green’s replacement and has shined doing so, and Tyler Eifert was a pro bowl tight end last year so they have the potential.
The Eagles really need to get out of this slump of theirs pronto. It is getting ridiculous and earlier seasons top 5 defense needs to show up again against the star starved Bengals. I’m not saying it will be a win this week for sure, but I am saying the Eagles should play like their playoff hopes are on the line (which they are).
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