This week’s Eagles Stats column focuses on the remarkable defensive performances the last two weeks with a few other tasty nuggets mixed in.

Fewest turnovers since when? Saquon vs. Tank what? First time in how long?

It’s all here!

1. With a 10-7 win over the 5-2-1 Packers and a 16-6 win over the 6-3 Lions, this was only the second time since 1950 that the Eagles have held consecutive opponents with winning records to nine or fewer points in the regular season. They did it in 2002 vs. the Bucs (20-10 win) and Giants (17-3 win). They also did it in the 2023 playoffs with wins over the 9-7-1 Giants (38-7 win) and 13-4 49ers (31-7 win). 

2A. The Eagles over the last two weeks also won consecutive games scoring 26 or fewer points combined for the first time in 91 years. In 1934, the Eagles beat the Brooklyn Dodgers 13-0 in Week 12 at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn on touchdown runs by Ed Storm and Swede Hanson, and a week later they beat the Giants 6-0 at the Baker Bowl at Broad and Lehigh on a Jim Leonard touchdown run. 

2B. Until the Packers game, the Eagles had won one of their last 51 games when they scored 16 or fewer points. Last time they won consecutive games scoring 16 or fewer points was Week 8 and 9 of the 1997 season, when they beat the Cards 13-10 at the Vet on a Chris Boniol field goal in overtime, and then beat the Cowboys 13-12 a week later at the Vet on a touchdown pass from Rodney Peete to Chad Lewis with 49 seconds left.

3. The Eagles are 6-2 this year when they’ve been outgained by their opponent. That ties the most games in any season that the Eagles have won when outgained. In 2003, they went 6-4. The NFL record for most wins in a season when getting outgained is nine by the 2011 Packers.

4A. The Eagles have committed just 11 turnovers since last year’s Week 5 bye week, the fewest turnovers in NFL history by any team in any 23-game span. The fewest previously in a 23-game span was 13 by several teams, most recently the Bills with a streak that ended in September.  

4B. The Eagles are now an NFL-best 34-1 since 2022 when they win turnover margin for a .971 winning percentage. Next-best are the Lions, who are 29-1 (.967) during the same span. They’re 29-3 (.906) during the same span when they don’t commit a turnover. Their 32 games without a turnover are the most in the league over the same 3 ½-year span.

4C. The Eagles’ four turnovers equal the fewest in NFL history by any team through 10 games. The Commanders had four through 10 games last year. The fewest turnovers the Eagles have ever committed in a season is 15 last year. The fewest by any team in NFL history is eight by the Saints in 2019 and the Bills last year.

5. The Eagles are 51-16 in their last 66 regular-season games, a span that goes back to late in the 2021 season. They went 4-1 to finish 2021, then 14-3 in 2022, 11-6 in 2023 and 14-3 in 2024 before starting out 8-2 this year. The last NFC team with a better record in any 66-game stretch was the 1989 through 1993 49ers, who went 54-12 from Week 14 of 1986 through Week 17 of 1990. The only other NFC team since the merger to win more games in any 66-game span was the 1991 through 1995 Cowboys, who went 52-14 from Week 13 in 1991 through Week 14 in 1995. 

6. Third- and fourth-down conversion stats are only available going back to 1991, but the Eagles on Sunday became only the third team in those 35 years to face five or more fourth downs in a game and stop every one. In 1995, John Elway and the Broncos went 0-for-5 on fourth down in a 37-3 loss to the Patriots at Sullivan Stadium in Foxboro. The only team to go 0-for-6 on fourth down not surprisingly was another Dan Campbell team. In 2022, the Lions attempted six fourth downs in a game at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro – same town, different stadium – and went 0-for-6 in a 29-0 loss to Bailey Zappe and the Patriots. 

7. During the Eagles’ four-game winning streak, Barkley has 80 carries and Tank Bigsby has 17. But Bigsby has seven runs of at least 10 yards and Barkley has just five. So 6 percent of Barkley’s runs over the past four games have gone for at least 10 yards compared to 42 percent of Bigsby’s. During that span, Bigsby has the 67th-most carries in the league but the 11th-most 10-yard runs, and Barkley has the most carries in the league but the 25th-most double-digit runs.

8A. It wasn’t Jalen Hurts’ best game, but he did throw another 28 passes without an interception, giving him one interception on 269 pass attempts so far this year. The only quarterback with a better interception percentage over a full season is Aaron Rodgers, who threw two INTs in 597 pass attempts in 2018 with the Packers. Hurts has two interceptions in 561 pass attempts in his last 23 starts going back to Week 3 of last year. Of 176 quarterbacks who’ve thrown 2,000 passes, he’s now up to 6th-best interception ratio in NFL history with an INT every 55.2 pass attempts. He trails only Rodgers (one every 69.4 attempts), Justin Herbert (61.1), Tom Brady (56.8), Patrick Mahomes (56.7) and Joe Burrow (56.2). 

8B. Hurts has now gone 28 consecutive games without throwing more than one interception. That’s the 9th-longest streak ever by a starting quarterback (but the 2nd-longest currently, behind Matt Stafford’s 29-game streak). Last time Hurts threw multiple INTs in the same game was opening day of 2024, when he was picked off twice by the Packers in Sao Paulo. Hurts has started 76 games and has thrown no interceptions in 47 of them. That’s the most ever by a quarterback in his first 76 starts. Russell Wilson, Dak Prescott and Lamar Jackson had 44.

9. Jared Goff, completing an NFL-high 74.0 percent of his completions going into the game, was just 14-for-37 for 37.8 percent, the lowest completion percentage of his career. That’s the lowest completion percentage against the Eagles by any starting quarterback since Brandon Weeden was 12-for-35 (34.3 percent) on opening day 2012 in the Eagles’ 17-16 win over the Browns in Cleveland. It’s the lowest by a quarterback who had been picked to at least four Pro Bowl teams since Bobby Layne of the Steelers went 2-for-16 (12.5 percent) in the Eagles’ 34-7 win at Franklin Field in 1960. Layne had made Pro Bowls in 1951, 1952, 1953, 1956, 1958 and 1959. 

10. Jahmyr Gibbs’ 107 receiving yards are the most by an opposing running back in Philly in 44 years, since Terry Metcalf had 123 yards in the Eagles’ 36-13 win over Washington at the Vet in 1981. It was the most receiving yards by an opposing running back against the Eagles anywhere since James White of the Patriots had 115 in the Eagles’ 35-28 win over the Patriots in 2015 in Foxboro.

Bonus Stat 1: How much of a difference has Nakobe Dean made? Through six games, the Eagles were allowing 134 rushing yards per game – 6th-worst in the league – and 4.7 yards per carry – tied for 6th-worst in the league. In four games since Dean returned, they’re allowing 84 yards per game – 6th-best in the league – and 3.6 yards per carry – 4th-best in the league. Their first six opponents all averaged at least 4.0 yards per carry. Their last four averaged under 4.0 yards per carry. The Eagles have held four straight teams below 4.0 yards per carry.

Bonus Stat 2A: Zack Baun had sacks in consecutive games earlier this year against the Bucs and Broncos, and Nakobe Dean has sacks in the last two games, against the Packers and Lions. This is the first time since sacks became an official stat in 1982 that two Eagles linebackers have had sacks in consecutive games in the same season. 

Bonus Stat 2B: Baun had 3 ½ sacks last year and has 3.0 this year and Dean had 3.0 last year and has 2.0 this year. This is the first time since 1997 through 1999 that two Eagles linebackers have had multiple sacks in consecutive years. In 1997, William Thomas had 5.0 and James Willis 2.0, in 1998 Thomas and James Darling had 2.0 each and in 1999 Ike Reese had 3.0 and Jeremiah Trotter and Thomas.