By: Kylan Watson

The Philadelphia Eagles traveled to Seattle to face a Seahawks squad that was fighting to save their season. Both of these teams needed a win in this game for different reasons and the Seahawks wanted it a lot more than the Eagles did. The Seahawks had to travel 92-yards to make it happen, but Drew Lock found Jaxon Smith-Nijgba for the winning touchdown that saved the season for Seattle and extended Philly’s losing streak to three-games.

The Eagles dominated this game from the start with a balanced attack they were able to use the running game to run it straight down the Seahawks throat. There was not much they could do to stop it and that drive was capped off by a Jalen Hurts finding the endzone for the first of two times today. Philly actually looked like a capable offense throughout the majority of this game. However,  two turnovers undid all of the positive momentum they had built throughout the contest. They went away from the run game once again, especially in the second half. Philly’s offensive scheme is at its best when the run and pass game are mixed together. Later on in the game it seemed like the Eagles wanted the big play instead of taking what was there for them. They were able to score on their drives  thanks to methodical drives and that is what their offense is at this point. Opposing defenses are taking away the big play so it is incumbent on Hurts to make good decisions which later in this contest he did not make. There is too much talent on this offensive side to only score 17-points against a Seahawks team that they had on the ropes throughout the majority of this game. The Eagles have to fix their offensive scheme if they want to go far in the playoffs.

Despite the fact that the Eagles had them on the ropes with one-minute and 49-seconds left in this contest Seattle had one chance to snatch a victory in this game and they took it. Drew Lock made the plays he needed to and found Jaxon Smith-Njigba in the end zone to take this game from the Eagles. The Eagles clearly missed the presence of Darius Slay as the shutdown cornerback. James Bradberry played a good game throughout this contest, but he got burned by Smith-Njigba late in the game for the walk-off touchdown in this contest. Why the Eagles did not give him help over the top is a mystery but at the end of the day he is the 38-million-dollar man who needed to make the play and did not tonight. That is what sums up the Eagles season so far, especially the last three weeks they made plays last year and that playmaking has not shown up throughout the majority of this season. They say pressure makes diamonds so the Eagles will either shine bright like a diamond by the end of the season or be exposed as knockoffs. They have to look in the mirror and start making the plays that are available, not trying to make big plays once they do that, they should find themselves back in the win column.

The Eagles will now prepare for a Christmas Day matchup with the New York Giants. This is another contest that Philly on paper has the more talented team, and they have to get pressure on Tommy DeVito and force him to make mistakes, Philly is a different team when they are able to get that pressure on the opposing offense and make that quarterback feel them. When it does not work the weakness of their secondary shows up like it did tonight and big plays become available. On the offensive side the Eagles have to use their run game you traded for a weapon like D’Andre Swift use him in the screen game and in the run game like they did early on in this contest. If it is working do not run away from it and they have to accept that right now they are a slow and methodical offense and not the big-play offense they were last year. Take the plays the defense gives you and be great at being those methodical killers that keep drives alive and find the endzone when necessary. If they can implement these things, they can beat the Giants and get the top-two seed back in the loaded NFC.