Let\u2019s get to the Philadelphia Eagles news and links \u2026<\/p>\n
Week 13 panic meter: Eagles, Colts, Ravens, Steelers, Lions – ESPN<\/a> Contextualizing Nick Sirianni\u2019s statement that Kevin Patullo will remain the Eagles\u2019 play caller – PhillyVoice<\/a> Eagles-Bears Film Review: Genuinely don\u2019t understand how Kevin Patullo is still running this offense – BGN<\/a> Nick Sirianni lays the blame for Eagles struggles squarely on Nick Sirianni – NBCSP<\/a> Spadaro: Here is what the Eagles can lean on – PE.com<\/a> Chargers\u2019 Justin Herbert undergoes successful hand surgery, considered day to day – NFL.com<\/a> Cowboys didn\u2019t get help they need on Sunday, but momentum into December still feels different – Blogging The Boys<\/a> Commanders Vs. Broncos – Studs and Duds – Hogs Haven<\/a> Giants-Patriots analysis: Disastrous night for interim coach Mike Kafka – Big Blue View<\/a> NFL mock draft 2026: 4 QBs in first round, plus the Arch Manning dilemma – SB Nation<\/a> Social Media Information:<\/p>\n BGN Facebook Page: Click here to like our page<\/a><\/p>\n BGN Twitter: Follow @BleedingGreen<\/a><\/p>\n BGN BlueSky: Follow @bleedgreennation.bsky.social<\/a><\/p>\n BGN Instagram: Follow @BleedingGreenInsta<\/a><\/p>\n BGN Manager: Follow Brandon Lee Gowton on Twitter<\/a> | BlueSky<\/a> | Threads<\/a><\/p>\n BGN Radio Twitter: Follow @BGN_Radio<\/a><\/p>\n
Because the Eagles were in this hole in 2023 and then won the Super Bowl the very next season, it\u2019s unwise to panic too hard. The Eagles can say with confidence something the Colts and Lions can\u2019t say: They have a championship formula with their current quarterback. To recover it, the Eagles need an infusion of creativity on the offensive coaching staff (and big improvement across the offensive line, which has regressed in health and performance this season), but this 2025 downswing does not condemn the offense or the team to death. We know it can emerge from this. But in the short term, it is impossible to rank the Eagles among the top tier of NFC contenders. The offense is far too feeble. The philosophy since the beginning of 2024 was to avoid turnovers, but the moment the Eagles get a bad bounce on a fumble — as they have in the past two games against the Cowboys and Bears (three fumbles lost) — they have no dropback passing game to erase the deficit. The playcalling fails to manufacture easy touches for Saquon Barkley and A.J. Brown — two of the league\u2019s best playmakers — in a manner that is totally impermissible. Without right tackle Lane Johnson, Hurts does not trust his pockets. He also isn\u2019t running nearly as much this season, which is clearly a conscientious choice between him and\/or the coaching staff. There is no juice and no relief coming around the corner. The Eagles might win a playoff game on the back of a great defensive performance. But it is impossible to rank them next to the Rams, Seahawks and Packers as the class of the NFC. I think they\u2019re below the 49ers and Bears as well. Until new blood joins the offensive coaching staff, the Eagles cannot be taken seriously — and that won\u2019t happen immediately. Panic for 2025 is real. Panic for 2026 and beyond isn\u2019t necessary.<\/p>\n
So is Patullo still the play caller, or what? First, to answer the above question above about why this season is different from 2023, the Eagles never really had confidence in Desai, organizationally. They really would have preferred to hire Vic Fangio to be their defensive coordinator in 2023 after Jonathan Gannon left to become the head coach of the Arizona Cardinals. However, following the Eagles\u2019 NFC Championship Game win over the San Francisco 49ers, Gannon told the Eagles he was saying in Philly before proceeding to have improper contact with the Cardinals while the Eagles were preparing to play in the Super Bowl. After the team\u2019s Super Bowl loss, Gannon quickly left for the Cardinals job, but Fangio had already agreed to be the defensive coordinator for the Miami Dolphins. The Eagles settled on Desai, but also hired the experienced Patricia to lurk in the background as a \u201csenior defensive assistant.\u201d Seemingly, no such experienced lurker exists on the current offensive staff ready to step in for Patullo. Also, Sirianni has a long professional relationship with Patullo, while Desai was hired from the outside. So, yeah, Patullo is probably still the play caller, but just because Sirianni said he is doesn\u2019t make it so.<\/p>\n
The overall picture is grim. Since the bye, this offense is averaging fewer than 17 points per game, and none of it feels fluky. The passing game lacks rhythm and identity. The run game is completely non-functional, producing nothing even against bad defenses. Hurts isn\u2019t playing well. Structurally, the offense is bad, the design is basic, and the only time they look remotely coherent is when they\u2019re trailing and forced into desperation mode. This group is far too talented to look this lost. Still, unless the coaching improves drastically, we\u2019re going to be stuck watching the same broken operation and having the same conversations every single week. I try not to call for jobs, but I genuinely don\u2019t understand how Kevin Patullo is still running this offense. Nothing is improving. Nothing is building toward anything. It\u2019s not one person\u2019s fault, but at some point, change is necessary. I\u2019m disappointed we have not made a change.<\/p>\n
Patullo is an easy target and has not been effective as a play caller. But when a team keeps losing games in such spectacular fashion, it\u2019s on the head coach as much as anybody. \u201cIt isn\u2019t just one person, it\u2019s the ultimate team game,\u201d Sirianni said. \u201cWe\u2019re working through everything. I have a lot of faith in all the players. I have a lot of faith in all the coaches. We\u2019ve just got to execute it better and scheme it better and (those can both) be true. We\u2019ve got to call it better. \u201cIt\u2019s every area that we need to improve on. That\u2019s why we always say we look internally through all these things. If all that\u2019s not gelling, to me, that\u2019s on me first. It\u2019s my job to do whatever I need to do to help get it fixed and that\u2019s what we\u2019re working on right now. \u201cWhen you get into these adversities that you\u2019re in, you can band together as a football team or you can get into a blame world. If we\u2019re all looking internally, that\u2019s what it\u2019s all about. We\u2019ve all got to do better, and that\u2019s everybody.\u201d As we wrote earlier this week, the Eagles\u2019 struggles are starting to be reminiscent of the 2023 collapse, which saw the Eagles go from 10-1 to 11-6 with a series of catastrophic losses and then a wild-card blowout in Tampa. Sirianni said he\u2019ll draw on the lessons he learned two years ago as the Eagles try to snap out of their current slump.<\/p>\n
Back to work. Learn from the past and correct for the future. With five games remaining in the regular season, the Eagles understand that everything they want remains in front of them. What to do with an 8-4 record and a trip to Los Angeles for a Monday Night Football game against the Chargers? \u201cWe have to definitely stay together. Stay committed to what the team is trying to accomplish,\u201d quarterback Jalen Hurts said. \u201cIn the end, no one ever said it was going to be easy, and we\u2019ve got to embrace the challenge. We\u2019ve got to embrace this time and respond to it the right way.\u201d The players return to the NovaCare Complex this week knowing the Eagles remain in first place in the NFC East, knowing that nothing comes easily in the NFL, and knowing that there are things to correct. This is the nature of the league, and the only way to correct the pieces that have gone offline is to keep working, look in the mirror and be critical, and understand that there is a lot of football still to be played this season.<\/p>\n
Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert underwent successful surgery on his left non-throwing hand Monday and is day to day, the team announced. Herbert, however, intends to play in his team\u2019s Week 14 game against the visiting Philadelphia Eagles, NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport reported earlier on Monday. \u201cJustin Herbert underwent successful surgery today in Los Angeles to stabilize a fracture in his left hand,\u201d the statement read. \u201cHerbert\u2019s return to play is considered day-to-day, and his status for next Monday\u2019s game against Philadelphia will be determined later in the week.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Dallas Cowboys are riding high after last Sunday\u2019s win against the Philadelphia Eagles and more home cooking on Thanksgiving against the Kansas City Chiefs, They enter December above .500 for the first time all season at 6-5-1. The Cowboys even had a great Black Friday with the Chicago Bears handing the Eagles another loss. The post-holiday lull comes for us all though, and even America\u2019s Team couldn\u2019t avoid it this Sunday. The Cowboys got none of the help they needed to inch even closer towards a NFC Wild Card spot on Sunday, but can still put both a Wild Card berth and winning the NFC East outright on their Christmas wish list as things that remain possible going into the regular season\u2019s final month. A Cowboys season that seemed destined to feel like a long waste of time, with alternating wins and losses and a tie for good measure, through the first seven weeks has shifted in feeling dramatically. For a team that still ultimately has a lot of work left to do to reach the playoffs, they\u2019ve been in must-win playoff mode since the Eagles game, and found a way to comeback and win against both the Eagles and Chiefs. Fans are on the edge of their seats watching a team that looks unrecognizable for all the right reasons on defense, and has a familiar-looking big-play offense with a new element of excitement in George Pickens.<\/p>\n
STUDS: Zach Ertz: Ertz came up HUGE all game. He was getting open in zones and was even showing some RAC ability – something we haven\u2019t seen much of this season. He led the team with 10 catches for 106 yards. [\u2026] DUDS: Johnny Newton: I think it\u2019s safe to call him a bust at this point. He literally contributes NOTHING!<\/p>\n
Mike Kafka is not going to be, cannot be, the next full-time head coach of the New York Giants. That much became clear both during and after the Giants\u2019 humiliating, non-competitive 33-15 loss to the New England Patriots on Monday night. Kafka seems to be a nice guy. He is doing the best he can in adverse circumstances, which is what all interim gigs are. In his first couple of weeks on the job after the firing of Brian Daboll, Kafka did some good things. He got the team to play hard, and nearly beat playoff-bound teams in the Green Bay Packers and Detroit Lions. He and the Giants might have done that, except for the team\u2019s defenseless defense. Kafka handled an Abdul Carter situation Daboll had apparently been unwilling to handle as the No. 3 overall pick in the draft had apparently not been disciplined by Daboll for what have been said to be repeated transgressions. When Carter missed walk-through \u2014 whether he was sleeping or rehabbing is irrelevant. Carter wasn\u2019t where we was supposed to be, and got benched for the first series of a Week 11 game against the Green Bay Packers. After two \u201cget to know you\u201d weeks of watching Shane Bowen try to lead the Giants\u2019 defense, Kafka fired Bowen and replaced him with Charlie Bullen. That led to a more aggressive defensive philosophy against the Patriots. It did not lead to better results. Kafka had done enough good things prior to Monday that it seemed he could be a legitimate candidate to have \u201cinterim\u201d removed from his title. Provided, of course, his team won some games. A signature victory Monday over a 10-2 Patriots team would have help. Instead, Monday was a disaster for Kafka. Both during and after a 33-15 drubbing by the Patriots that looked a varsity team scrimmaging against the JV.<\/p>\n
Thanksgiving has come and gone, and we are getting teams officially eliminated from playoff contention. The New York Giants were the first team eliminated following Week 12 results, and the Tennessee Titans, Las Vegas Raiders, Arizona Cardinals, and the New Orleans Saints joined them following Week 13 results. Draft season is truly here. Let\u2019s kick it off with our latest mock draft.<\/p>\n