Daily News | The Eagles’ vaunted defense was lousy against the Lions, and Jonathan Gannon has lost any benefit of the doubt
DETROIT — As the Eagles, in single file, trudged through a tunnel from the Ford Field turf into the stadium’s visitors’ locker room, Brandon Graham smiled that thousand-lumen smile of his, and Miles Sanders kept saying, “Big dubs, big dubs,” repeating it loud enough for anyone nearby to hear, as if he were trying to remind everyone of the final score. Sure, a big W for the Eagles over the Lions, 38-35. Big to win on the road. Big to start 1-0.
Save one of those errant Goff throws — one that Kyzir White deflected and that James Bradberry intercepted and returned 27 yards for a touchdown — the Eagles did little to stymie a Detroit offense that is closer to The Slowest Show on Turf than the reincarnation of the 1999 St. Louis Rams.
Was this disappointing performance on the players or on Gannon? How long will it be before Jordan Davis begins to take snaps away from Fletcher Cox at defensive tackle? How long will it take a defense with five new starters to gain a better sense of communication and cohesion? And how long will it take for Haason Reddick to be the force he was supposed to be? He insisted that Gannon had, in the phrase coaches and players around the league love,.
That was the Eagles’ mantra in the aftermath of Sunday’s game: Watch the film. Clean it up. Move on to the Minnesota Vikings next Monday night. “But we were able to get a win,” Sirianni said. “In this league, on the road in your first game, we’ll take it any way we can get it.” This problematic showing on one side of the ball doesn’t just disappear, though. All those offseason and preseason acquisitions by Howie Roseman — Reddick, Bradberry, Davis, Nakobe Dean, C.J.
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