Eagles Looking To Spark Suddenly Slumping Offense Facing Leaky Seahawks Defense – News18

SEATTLE: All it took was two straight losses and one recreation with out discovering the tip zone for Jalen Hurts and his coaches to start out feeling the warmth of what’s happening in Philadelphia.

There is little doubt the Eagles might be taking part in within the postseason and a win on Monday evening over Seattle will wrap up a playoff spot for Philadelphia.

But the best way the previous two weeks transpired have amplified considerations that the Eagles (10-3) have issues on the offensive aspect that have to be solved over the ultimate quarter of the season if they’re to be true contenders at making one other run to the Super Bowl.

“You have to do something about it. We’re going through some adversity right now, and we welcome adversity, right? You don’t like it. It’s like the criticism a little bit. You don’t like it when you first hear it, but then can you use it to help you grow? There is no doubt adversity helps you grow as a team,” Eagles coach Nick Sirianni mentioned. “So, we’re (annoyed) that we haven’t played or coached to our standard and we’re ready to go do something about it.”

Whether Hurts is underneath heart in opposition to the Seahawks is unsure after he was downgraded to questionable on Sunday due to sickness and traveled individually from the staff to Seattle. If Hurts isn’t wholesome sufficient to go, Marcus Mariota would get the beginning.

Seattle (6-7) has equal uncertainty about its beginning quarterback within the midst of a 4-recreation dropping streak.

Geno Smith, who missed final week with a groin damage, was restricted in follow and can also be questionable and that would result in a second straight begin for Drew Lock.

Whether it’s Hurts or Mariota, the Eagles are going by means of an offensive hunch with simply two offensive touchdowns previously eight quarters, each coming within the second half of their blowout loss to San Francisco two weeks in the past. Over the previous 4 video games, Hurts is finishing simply 61% of his passes and has a passer ranking of 84.3.

Last week in opposition to Dallas gave the impression to be the tipping level from slight fear to precise concern for the Eagles after they failed to attain an offensive landing within the loss. But Hurts sees it because the sorts of challenges confronted in each season.

“That’s usually what is supposed to happen. You don’t get anywhere without any challenges. You don’t grow,” Hurts mentioned. “It’s not natural to develop the right type of character and develop into a team, truly, if you don’t go through anything together.”

Part of the issues final week in opposition to the Cowboys was an absence of distribution. All 27 of Hurts’ cross makes an attempt final week have been directed at A.J. Brown, DeVonta Smith or Dallas Goedert. While the Eagles need their greatest gamers getting the ball, in addition they want to verify the likes of D’Andre Swift are getting concerned within the offense.

Swift has 19 complete touches previously two video games.

“I think you just got to continue to try to get him the ball in different ways, whether that’s in the pass game or the jet sweep game or just handing him some direct runs that don’t have read elements to them,” Philadelphia offensive coordinator Brian Johnson mentioned.

Facing the Seahawks is perhaps an ideal opponent for Philadelphia to discover a repair. Last week, Seattle gave up 9.94 yards per play final week in opposition to San Francisco, the second most of any staff this season. Take out kneel-downs, and San Francisco averaged greater than 10 yards per snap on its technique to rolling up 527 yards, essentially the most allowed by the Seahawks in a non-extra time recreation since 2015.

It was simply the eighth time since 2000 a staff has allowed 9.9 yards per play in a recreation. Denver allowed 10.23 yards per play earlier this season when it gave up 70 factors to Miami.

In the previous three weeks, Seattle allowed 24 first-half factors in a loss to the 49ers; gave up 41 factors in a loss to the Cowboys; and final week didn’t decelerate the 49ers once more.

Clearly the issues being felt in regards to the Eagles offense are being equally mentioned about what’s happening with Seattle’s protection.

“We understand that we have a lot of potential on this team. We know we have a lot of players who can play really well and a lot of the stuff that we need to correct is ourselves,” Seattle edge rusher Boye Mafe mentioned. “There’s things that we know, there’s plays that were made that we know that we can handle and things that we need to adjust in our defense in just how we as players got to take accountability for that.”

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