FOX Sports NFL experts analyze Week 17 games, highlighting the Cowboys' defensive struggles and the Eagles' offensive success.
FOX Sports' NFL experts provide the biggest takeaways from every Sunday game in Week 17 and what they mean for each team going forward. Cowboys : Injuries have certainly contributed in a big way, but the most disappointing part about this bad Cowboys team might be Mike Zimmer's defense. The loss to the Eagles on Sunday was the third time a team has dropped 40 points or more on Dallas, and the sixth time a team has scored at least 30.
The Cowboys' front line in particular has been bad, which is why they're one of the worst teams in the NFL at stopping the run. But no sacks with the Eagles playing Kenny Pickett and Tanner McKee at quarterback? Granted, the Eagles' offensive line is one of the best, but Dallas needed to get a little pressure on those two with Jalen Hurts out. But consistent pressure, consistent run defense and, really, any consistency at all on defense hasn't been there for the Cowboys this season. One year earlier, under then-defensive coordinator Dan Quinn, they were a top-five defense. But those days are clearly long gone. Eagles: New offensive coordinator Kellen Moore has really turned Philly's offense into an efficient and dangerous machine, especially compared to the incoherent mess it was late last season. Last year, the Eagles had no identity and sometimes no clue, often passing when they should have run and vice versa. This season, with basically the same cast, they are so good that their two backup quarterbacks, Kenny Pickett and Tanner McKee, just combined to go 13-of-19 for 197 and three touchdown passes in a division-clinching rout of the Cowboys. The Eagles are so good at softening up defenses with the pass, spreading the ball around (DeVonta Smith led the way this time with 6 catches, 120 yards and 2 touchdowns) and then taking an opponent's will away with the punishing power and speed of Saquon Barkley (167 rushing yards to put him over 2,000 on the season
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