The Philadelphia Eagles beat the Detroit Lions on Sunday night.<\/p>\n
The defense was awesome! The offense was not.<\/p>\n
Time to hand out winners, losers, and I don\u2019t knows.<\/p>\n
Actually, just winners and one loser this week.<\/p>\n
For even more analysis, check out my appearance on The Ringer\u2019s Philly Special postgame podcast<\/a> with Sheil Kapadia (and Ace Producer Cliff Augustin).<\/p>\n The Lions entered Week 10 with an offense that ranked second in offensive points per game (30.4), fifth in yards per game (366.9), fifth in DVOA, fifth in EPA per play, and seventh in success rate.<\/p>\n The Eagles\u2019 defense held that offense to nine points (three of which were scored after a turnover on downs gave them the ball at the plus 29-yard line) and 317 yards.<\/p>\n Detroit was held to 3\/18 on third down (3\/13) and fourth down (0\/5) combined.<\/p>\n Just a flat out dominant performance by a unit hat shouldn\u2019t even reasonably be expected to play this well considering it\u2019s the youngest defense in the NFL and the Eagles rank dead last in defensive spending by a significant margin<\/a>.<\/p>\n Davis had gone a bit quiet following a strong start to the season. He really showed up big in this game with three pass deflections (one of which created an interception) to give him six total in 2025. He previously logged five pass deflections over the 55 games (including playoffs) he played before this season. Davis being over 6\u20196\u201d with 78-percentile arm length and 91-percentile hand size clearly came in, well \u2026 handy.<\/p>\n Feels like Carter is playing his best football coming out of the bye, which is a very positive development. He led the Eagles in \u201cstops\u201d (defined as tackles that constitute a failure for the offense) with five while no other defender had more than two. He seemed to have a really good read on what the Lions were doing. Carter also deflected two Goff passes and absolutely destroyed Lions starting right guard Tate Ratledge on the play where Jaelan Phillips logged a sack:<\/p>\n Ojomo ranked second on the Eagles in \u201cstops\u201d with two, one of which came on fourth down to force the Lions\u2019 first turnover on downs.<\/p>\n Dean\u2019s role has expanded each week since he\u2019s returned from injured reserve and it\u2019s impossible to fault Fangio for playing him at the expense of Jihaad Campbell at this point. Dean has just been so good. For the second week in a row, he generated a sack \u2026 this one by absolutely demolishing David Montgomery to knock Goff down.<\/p>\n Dean will be a free agent after this season. Guessing the Eagles won\u2019t be able to pay him when they have plenty of other extensions to figure out and it\u2019s not like Zack Baun or Campbell are going anywhere. But that\u2019s something to figure out in the future. For now, Eagles fans can enjoy Dean playing like one of the best off-ball linebackers in the league. Pretty crazy he\u2019s looked this good while coming off such a major injury.<\/p>\n He was in on a team-high seven tackles, including one TFL. Baun is only allowing a 72.4 passer rating when targeted, which is actually down from the 80.5 mark he allowed last season. Stud.<\/p>\n The new guy logged his first Eagles sack in just his second game with the Birds. Phillips was credited with a four pressures, which ranked second-most only behind Jalyx Hunt\u2019s five. Phillips drew a tough matchup in Penei Sewell, who is the second-best right tackle in the NFL behind Lane Johnson. And he was able to beat Sewell to make life difficult for Goff. Definitely been worth a third-round pick so far. If he keeps this pace up, he might just play his way into a contract extension in Philly.<\/p>\n DeJean\u2019s interception (second of his career, first-ever in the regular season) was created by a Davis deflection but he still gets credit for keeping his eyes on the ball and making the catch and return. DeJean also made an important leaping pass breakup to prevent a 3rd-and-17 conversion on the Lions\u2019 final drive where Detroit ultimately settled for a field goal. DeJean played a role in locking down Amon-Ra St. Brown, who is one of the best slot receivers in the league.<\/p>\n Q had a great game. He\u2019s an All-Pro caliber player in Year 2. Entering the conversation for best cornerback in the NFL.<\/p>\n Quinyon Mitchell did not allow a reception on any of his 6 targets, tied for the most targets without allowing a reception in a game over the last two seasons.<\/p>\n Mitchell played 39 snaps in coverage, which was tied for the 3rd-most coverage snaps by an outside cornerback in a game this season without allowing a reception. This was Mitchell\u2019s third game this season where he didn\u2019t allow a reception.<\/p>\n Mitchell has allowed just a 41.9% completion percentage in coverage this season, the lowest by any player with 50+ targets in a season since 2018.<\/p>\n Jackson wasn\u2019t perfect; he trailed Jameson Williams on a 40-yard reception for the Lions\u2019 sole touchdown. But he was pretty good relative to low expectations.<\/p>\n Surprising stat here via NFL Pro:<\/p>\n Amon-Ra St. Brown was limited to just 2 receptions for 42 yards on 12 targets, the 2nd-fewest receptions over expected (-4.5) by a player in a game in the Next Gen Stats era (since 2016).<\/p>\n Adoree\u2019 Jackson led the Eagles secondary with 11 matchups against St. Brown, allowing just 1 reception for 8 yards on 5 targets. Cooper DeJean (10 matchups) and Quinyon Mitchell (9 matchups) did not allow a reception to St. Brown, with each of them facing 3 targets in coverage.<\/p>\n Jackson had a really nice pass breakup on third down in the fourth quarter to force a Lions punt.<\/p>\n Concerns about CB2 have not been unfounded. But Jackson is allowing just a 85.1 passer rating when targeted this season. He hasn\u2019t been a liability.<\/p>\n Hunt did not have a sack in this game but he logged a team-high four quarterback hits by PFF\u2019s charting. As such, Hunt now ranks tied for the fifth-most QB hits among all NFL edge rushers this season with 11. The only players above him? Jared Verse, Josh Hines-Allen, George Karlaftis, and Nik Bonitto. Hunt has been coming on as of late.<\/p>\n Despite windy conditions, Elliott made all three field goal attempts (with a long of 49) and his sole extra point kick.<\/p>\n The Eagles\u2019 defense is a strong example of what a well-coached unit looks like.<\/p>\n The opposite can be said for their offense.<\/p>\n BGN\u2019s Jonny Page did a great job of breaking down a lot of the issues in his film review<\/a>.<\/p>\n