Jordan Davis didn\u2019t hide from it. The Eagles\u2019 defensive captain on Friday took full accountability for his lackluster performance on Monday night in the Eagles\u2019 38-21 loss to the Dallas Cowboys.<\/p>\n
\u201cI point thumbs, not fingers,\u201d Davis said.<\/p>\n
Not only is the 26-year-old Davis a defensive captain but he\u2019s also the centerpiece of the Eagles\u2019 run defense. That run defense gave up 204 yards on the ground to the Cowboys and is now ranked 27th in the NFL.<\/p>\n
\u201cI told everybody, I said, \u2018Look, that wasn\u2019t my best game,\u2019\u201d Davis said on Friday. \u201cI told Vic (Fangio), \u2018Hey, man, I feel like I let y\u2019all down.\u2019 Everybody has a part to play in it but when it comes to accountability, it comes from me first. I don\u2019t want anybody to be the one to pick and choose on me and be like, \u2018Hey, you ain\u2019t s\u2014\u2018 and I\u2019m walking around like my s\u2014 don\u2019t stink. Sorry about my language but it\u2019s really important.\u201d<\/p>\n
Accountability is important. It\u2019s especially important in the midst of a five-game losing streak as the Eagles try to salvage what began as a promising season.<\/p>\n
Davis has been dealing with a hand injury, which has made his job a little tougher on Monday, but he made clear that it was no excuse for his performance. He said his hands weren\u2019t good enough in that game. That\u2019s why he told his teammates and coaches that he let them down.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause it starts from the inside, the anchor,\u201d Davis said. \u201cIf you don\u2019t got an anchor, you\u2019ve got no chance. If you ain\u2019t got no anchor, you ain\u2019t got no edge. If you ain\u2019t got no edge, you ain\u2019t got no chance.\u201d<\/p>\n
After watching the Eagles\u2019 high-priced and highly touted defensive line get pushed around up front by the Cowboys on Monday night, a big theme of the week has been effort.<\/p>\n
While head coach Nick Sirianni and defensive coordinator Vic Fangio claimed they didn\u2019t see any effort issues from the team in the loss, several players have pushed back on that. That\u2019s part of taking accountability too.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn that game [effort] was poor from everybody,\u201d Davis said. \u201cThat\u2019s just simple and plain about it. It was poor. We know what we\u2019re capable of. We\u2019ve reached the highest of highs and seen the lowest of lows now. We have to do something to fix it. That\u2019s one of the things we\u2019ve been apart of in practice this week is fixing the effort. You have to give effort. Effort in everything.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cEffort into celebrating when you make a play. That takes effort. You\u2019re going to be a little tired after the play, but s\u2014, man. Put your finger up, put your fist up. Tell them you locked that s\u2014 down. It\u2019s just little stuff like that. You have to put effort into everything and our effort was poor last game. But it was good this week. We\u2019re going to have great effort and focus tomorrow and it\u2019s going to be great on Sunday.\u201d<\/p>\n
Football is obviously a job, but Davis is someone who tries to bring joy to it. He spoke on Friday about the importance of having fun and has been trying to instill that all week. His teammates have appreciated that.<\/p>\n
The Eagles drafted Davis with the No. 13 overall picking the 2022 draft and he got off to a slow start in his career. But Davis had a breakout season in 2025. He had what should have been a Pro Bowl season last year and then signed a three-year, $78 contract extension in the offseason.<\/p>\n
Davis on Friday said he took accountability because he knows how important it is, especially as a leader. He said the Eagles\u2019 defensive issues need to get fixed and he\u2019s confident they will be.<\/p>\n
How much of that is pride?<\/p>\n
\u201cFootball is all pride,\u201d Davis said. \u201cIt\u2019s all emotion, it\u2019s all pride. It doesn\u2019t matter if you are p-squad, first round, anybody in between. You have some sort of pride playing this game. You have to have pride because if you don\u2019t have pride in doing your job, somebody else will do it for you. And that\u2019s just the nature of the beast. I have pride in what I do. I have pride in being a premier run-stuffer and getting myself up to being a pass rusher. You have to have pride in your job.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jordan Davis didn\u2019t hide from it. The Eagles\u2019 defensive captain on Friday took full accountability for his lackluster…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6107,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-318367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-eagles-blog","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}