The Eagles’ 2019 Season Summed up in One Drive
With 4:06 left in the game, the Eagles offense marched out onto the field, backed up to their own 6-yard line.
Carson Wentz and company had only mustered 41 yards of offense after a monstrous 16 play-95 yard drive that ended in a touchdown, but, put all of that behind them if they just came up with 6 points on this drive.
On the first play, the pocket collapsed, Carson moved to his left, kept his eyes downfield, and found JJ Arcega-Whiteside for 29 yards, the longest play on offense all game and JJ’s first reception since September. A loud uproar erupted from the 70,000 fans on the edge of their seats at Lincoln Financial Field, who were reeled in after the Eagles offense had left them booing for the better part of the game.
Two plays later, Wentz’s incompletion got turned into a first down thanks to a holding call on Stephon Gilmore, but yet again, Jason Peters hit the turf. Wentz then quickly found Agholor for a 5 yard gain and Goedert for a 10 yard gain, and all of a sudden, the Eagles were at the New England 45 at the two-minute warning.
After another two straight incompletions, Wentz threw a dot to Agholor who made a beautiful leaping grab at the 26-yard line. And that would be it for the Eagles offense on that drive. Wentz threw 3 straight ugly incompletions, bringing up a 4th and 10. Belichick dialed up a zero blitz, leaving Wentz back peddling, and yet still finding Agholor in one-on-one coverage on a seam route. Agholor had a foot out in front Dante Hightower, got his hands on the ball, but couldn’t reel it in, despite twisting and turning every which way. The offense got the ball back again, but it didn’t matter. If there was one drive to define the 2019 Eagles, it would be that drive.
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Carson Wentz making ridiculous throws then proceeding to miss his recievers by a mile, Eagles fans losing hope and then being reeled back in, Jason Peters getting hurt, Agholor dropping touchdowns with the game on the line, only one half of the team showing up to play; they’ve all been a common theme this season, and each and every one of those themes had occurrences on that drive.
The bottom line is that this is one of the most inconsistent and confusing Eagles teams ever. This is a season where the Eagles lost at home to the Lions, and then proceeded to put up 34 points on the Packers in Lambeau and beat Aaron Rodgers, who was 58-0-1 in his career when leading by 10+ points at home (2nd to Tom Brady). This is a season where Doug Pederson has called terrific games, and also a season where he has called the worst games of his career.
This is a season where the secondary was absolutely torched week in and week out, and now all of a sudden, have given up just 170 yards over the past 3 games.
Consistency has been a problem this season, and it showed when the Eagles came up short this past Sunday.
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