LANDOVER, Md. \u2014 In the wake of the Eagles\u2019 27-10 loss to the Commanders on Sunday night, Jordan Mailata didn\u2019t hold back.<\/p>\n
How can an offensive line have this many communication errors in Week 8?<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s something that\u2019s unacceptable,\u201d Mailata said. \u201cWe can\u2019t win games like that. I kind of put all the blame on us up front and put all the blame on myself because you just can\u2019t win games by not being able to be efficient in the run game, not being able to protect your QB. It kills momentum and it\u2019s just bad ball, man. Bad ball. We got to get back to work and have a good look in the mirror, man.\u201d<\/p>\n
There\u2019s no doubt that the Eagles are playing some bad ball right now. The offense on Sunday scored the first 10 points of the game in the first quarter and was shut out the rest of the way on their way to losing a sixth straight game. It\u2019s the first six-game losing streak for the Eagles since the 2012 season.<\/p>\n
The offensive line \u2014 despite getting back-to-back starts with the same configuration \u2014 really struggled on Sunday night, and it\u2019s hard to win games like that.<\/p>\n
In years past, the Eagles have been known for having strong offensive lines but that hasn\u2019t been the case this season. Heck, two of the five opening day starters aren\u2019t even on the team anymore: Lane Johnson retired and Cam Jurgens was traded to the Ravens.<\/p>\n
But that\u2019s still no excuse for what we saw against the Commanders.<\/p>\n
The Eagles on Sunday managed just 91 rushing yards and 25 of them came when Tanner McKee was running for his life. The running backs accounted for just 64 yards and an average of 2.67 yards per attempt.<\/p>\n
On top of that, McKee was sacked five times for 35 yards and was hit eight times by the Commanders.<\/p>\n
The Commanders generated pressure on 46.5% of McKee\u2019s dropbacks, which was a season high for them, according to NextGen Stats. And the blitzes really worked. They generated 10 pressures and a sack on 12 blitzes. That\u2019s a blitz success rate of 83.3% on Sunday. The Commanders had a pressure rate of just 32.3% when they didn\u2019t send a blitz.<\/p>\n
Even though the Eagles picked up blitzes a few times, there were way too many plays with unblocked rushers. The Commanders also had seven quick pressures (under 2.5 seconds) on blitzes. That speaks to how many times there was no one to block a rusher.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere were execution errors and communication errors,\u201d Mailata said. \u201cWe have guys in the backfield getting TFLs. Just very inconsistent play by us up front tonight. It shows that you can\u2019t play like that in the NFL.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Commanders have some decent players on their defensive line but were without two of their best interior linemen. And they entered the weekend with just 11 sacks in 6 games. So to let them feast the way they did was simply unacceptable.<\/p>\n
While it\u2019s probably unfair to just point a finger at new offensive line coach Chris Kuper, it\u2019s impossible to wonder if Eagles would be in a much better position right now if they still had Jeff Stoutland as their O-line coach. Stoutland and the Eagles parted ways this offseason after 13 seasons together, after Stoutland had his role diminished during the 2025 season.<\/p>\n
At the time the Eagles hired their new staff, the hope was that Kuper would be able to help ease the transition into new OC Sean Mannion\u2019s offense. That hasn\u2019t gone to plan.<\/p>\n
When Mailata introduced himself \u2014 as he always has \u2014 as a graduate of \u201cJeff Stoutland University\u201d during the Sunday Night Football introductions, it was hard to not think about the major change the Eagles went through this offseason.<\/p>\n
There are a lot of reasons the Eagles are 2-6 right now, but the offensive line struggles should be near the top of the list.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019ve got to keep pushing on, man,\u201d Mailata said. \u201cI don\u2019t know any other way but having pride, coming into work and working on the stuff that we suck at, the stuff that we didn\u2019t execute. You\u2019ve got to hold your head up high and keep coming to work because the guy next to you. That defense, man, they gave us so many opportunities and we let them down tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LANDOVER, Md. \u2014 In the wake of the Eagles\u2019 27-10 loss to the Commanders on Sunday night, Jordan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6107,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-319483","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\/319483","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=319483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}