After the ensuing touchback, Cox sacked Brees, and recovered the football at the Saints 13 yard line. Once again, that comes as no surprise, based on what he did a year ago for New England. You need binoculars to see where the top of the league is in comparison to where the Saints are. Even after the victory Sunday, Kelly was pestered in the press room nearly exclusively about his offense, with a pause or two to provide a Cox tribute.
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After gaining only 47 yards on 29 carries through the first four weeks of the season, Murray almost doubled that against the Saints, rushing for 83 yards and a touchdown on 20 carries.
Asked what he said to his former teammate and friend, Jenkins said: “I just told him not to throw it out to my side”. They play the run and they cause disruptions in the passing game. On Sunday, it overcame a slow start – on the scoreboard, at least – to post 39 points after the first quarter in a 39-17 win over New Orleans.
“Shoot, he’s a good football player and he made a few plays, ” Saints coach Sean Payton said.
-Malcolm Jenkins has been great this year. In fact, I’d wager that Snead, who seems to get open at will, has been the team’s best player on offense this season.
-When the Eagles drafted Benny Logan in the third round two years ago, I noted that the Honey Badger was still on the board and the Eagles needed safety help too.
On the first play of the very next drive, the Saints tried to go play action to take a shot down the field. He’s so disruptive in the middle. Rookie Jordan Hicks started in Kendricks’ place. This wasn’t his first big game for us. For whatever reason he couldn’t grab it. He had excellent coverage on Brandin Cooks downfield a couple of times. Sturgis made all four of his field-goal attempts.
But during that time the offense scored a touchdown and punted four times. Let’s celebrate what they once were as they go marching out of the Crescent City, one by one. Left tackle Terron Armstead is one of the best in the business, and he was sorely missed today. What is going on with the drops? On the next play, wide receiver Josh Huff crossed the middle of the field and caught a pass from Bradford, and when two Saints defenders collided, Huff had clear sailing to the end zone.
There’s only so much Brees can do, and the quarterback gets a reprieve when too many things are crumbling around him. But those days are gone, if Sunday’s game is any indication. But I think everyone is continuing to get a feel for each other. This is stupid. Oh but, “this is how the offense works”.
With the departure of Jeremy Maclin to the Kansas City Chiefs and temporary loss of Nelson Agholor to injury, which forced him to exit early during Sunday’s game, Huff will not only be granted further opportunities to shine, but will be necessary to the Eagles’ continued success. Nothing bad happened, but as DeSean Jackson about doing that dumb stuff.
DeMarco Murray could be content to sit back and collect his game checks while contributing little to his team.
“If you don’t have good character guys, you’d be anxious about that”, Brees said. This is an issue since that problem didn’t exist when Chip arrived. Despite a pair of interceptions against Bradford, there are no real ball-hawks in the secondary. The second was a ball that shouldn’t have been thrown. I think guys are working their tales off. I don’t want to hear anything about youth.
The Eagles failed on a second fourth down of the half to end one chance to score at the Saints’ 35.
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The Eagles didn’t get down and dirty with any trash talk on Wednesday in anticipation of their NFC East showdown with the Giants on Monday night at Lincoln Financial Field.
