It was a weird night Monday at Lincoln Financial Field. You get an unbeaten Eagles team in a prime-time game against an NFC East opponent, and you would expect emotional sparks and fire bursts from the start of the evening until its end. Yet compared to the crowd at the average Eagles home game, Monday’s was strangely subdued throughout the team’s 32-21 loss to the Washington Commanders.
One could ask the same questions of the Eagles themselves. Their postgame locker room was not a wasteland of sullen, brooding athletes. It was not an especially dark place in the aftermath of defeat. Quez Watkins was not distraught over his costly late-game fumble. Brandon Graham welcomed a horde of media members at his locker to talk about his unnecessary-roughness penalty against Taylor Heinicke. T.J.
Those injuries are indeed worrying. But they should not be crippling to a team that won its first eight games, that still has its starting quarterback and its starting tailback and its two starting wide receivers and its five starting offensive linemen, and that could have and arguably should have won Monday despite its litany of mistakes. And they certainly shouldn’t be crippling against the Eagles’ next opponent.
“My message this morning before the game ironically was, ‘Hungry dogs run faster,’” Jalen Hurts said. “When you win, they say it’s hard to keep the hunger, and I think this team is in a position to dictate on how we want to respond to this adversity, this obstacle in our way. What is done is done. So there is a ‘What now?’ mentality, and I know my mentality moving forward. I know my attention to detail in terms of my preparation and how that will look moving forward.
There was nothing wrong with Hurts’ words or the atmosphere among his teammates after Monday’s loss. The Eagles are 8-1. It was inevitable that they were going to have a bad game, and they had one. It doesn’t have to be anything more than that, and it won’t be if they do what they’re supposed to do this Sunday, if they beat a lesser team. Save the panic for a later date … next Monday at the earliest.
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