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Eagles held Cowboys and Giants to NFL’s only games this season with under 50 passing yards – PFT
Those are the only two times all season that an NFL offense has finished with fewer than 50 net passing yards. The combination of the Eagles’ stout defense and the Giants’ and Cowboys’ offensive incompetence led to stats that you just don’t see in the modern NFL. In fact, they were numbers that no one has ever seen in NFL history: Only two teams ever have completed at least 17 passes but netted fewer than 50 passing yards, and those were the Cowboys and Giants against the Eagles this season. The Eagles are playing very good football right now — and are being helped by having two awful teams in their division.

Eagles at Cowboys: 16 winners, 2 losers, 2 IDKs – BGN
It took 56 plays for the Cowboys to produce 146 yards. That’s 2.6 yards per play. For context, the worst offense in the NFL this season is averaging 4.2 yards per play (Cleveland Browns). The Eagles allowed six points on two field goals and both of those Cowboys scores came on short fields. The first was when a KaVontae Turpin kick return allowed Dallas to start at their own 40-yard line. The second was when Jalen Hurts’ fumble allowed Dallas to take over six yards away from the end zone. Fangio’s defense has now prevented three out of the Eagles’ last five opponents from scoring a touchdown. After allowing four touchdowns to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Week 4, the Eagles have allowed just four total touchdowns in five games since. Playing bad quarterbacks/offenses certainly helps. But that’s still an impressive feat regardless of opponent. The level to which the Eagles’ defense has dominated is not merely a given. After some struggles earlier this season, Fangio’s defense has really come together. It’ll be interesting to see how his unit fares against better quarterbacks. At the very least, there should confidence that the defense can handle their end of the bargain and keep games winnable for the offense to do their part.

Why your NFL team won, lost in Week 10 – PFF
Philadelphia Eagles 34, Dallas Cowboys 6. Why the Eagles won: Jalen Hurts was sacked five times by the Cowboys defense and fumbled the ball once when pressured, but he was wholly positive under duress. Hurts completed 7-of-11 pass attempts when pressured for 115 yards and two touchdowns, adding three big-time throws and earning a 76.6 overall grade. Week 10 proved another strong performance from the Eagles quarterback. Why the Cowboys lost: The Cowboys just didn’t look like a functional offense without Dak Prescott, but the game plan didn’t make it easy for Cooper Rush. The Cowboys ran play-action on just 16.7% of Rush’s dropbacks. Moreover, the backup looked shell-shocked when pressured, recording a 29.3 overall grade and completing 37.5% of his passes. It’s going to be a long second half of the season in Dallas.

Looking Legit – Iggles Blitz
The Eagles will face three really good QBs and a pair of dynamic offenses. This will tell us a lot about the defense. It will also put pressure on the offense. You aren’t going to beat Washington or Baltimore with 17 points. The offense will need to score in those games. If the Eagles can win 2 of the 3 games, they’ll be feeling pretty good about where things stand. If the Eagles lose a couple, there will be more questions. For now, enjoy the winning streak and feel good about the Birds. The players and coaches are figuring things out, but there is still room to get better. Jahan Dotson has two long catches in the last two weeks. Johnny Wilson caught his first NFL TD on Sunday. Bryce Huff had a strip sack. Maybe that will get him going. The defense has 10 takeaways in the last three games. It feels like the team gets a little better each week. Last year’s team feels worlds away from this group. The Eagles are well coached this time around. They block and tackle well. They are tough and physical. And Howie Roseman built a talented roster. They didn’t make a move at the trade deadline in part because they didn’t need to. It has been exciting to see this team come together. Hopefully it will be even more fun to see what they do in the second half of the season.

NFL Week 10 Under Review: The Playoff Picture Is Taking Shape – The Ringer
We get a huge matchup in the NFC East between the Eagles and Commanders on Thursday night. The winner will be in the driver’s seat for the division, though there’s a good chance that both teams are going to be in the playoff field. The Commanders have the second-easiest remaining schedule, and the Eagles have the third-easiest. According to DVOA, both teams have over a 90 percent chance of getting in.

Eagles have ended takeaway drought in record-setting fashion – NBCSP
Let’s put this in perspective real quickly: From Week 4 last year through Week 7 this year – a span of 21 games and 1,350 snaps – the Eagles forced 12 turnovers. About half a turnover per game and one every 113 plays. Since then – a span of three games and 165 snaps – the Eagles have forced 10 turnovers. Almost 3 ½ per game and one every 17 plays. The Eagles couldn’t buy a takeaway for most of last year and the first two months of this year. They were only the third team in NFL history to get 12 or fewer takeaways in a 21-game span. Now they can’t stop.

Spadaro: No time to waste with prime-time NFC East showdown with Commanders awaits – PE.com
Roughly 91 1/2 hours after landing home from their 34-6 win over the Dallas Cowboys, the Eagles will take on Washington in a key NFC East game at Lincoln Financial Field. The Thursday night tussle is a huge one – streaming around the country on Amazon Prime to kick off the NFL’s Week 11, the team’s Salute To Service game for 2024, the top of the division at stake – so what the players and coaches do between now and then is of paramount importance. There are no hours to waste. Washington is an impressive 7-3 with a new coaching staff, a new quarterback, and extreme confidence. The Commanders are the real deal and they are not to be lumped with any Washington teams of recent seasons. So, how do the Eagles maximize their time? It began, actually, in the days before the game against Dallas started. Typically, coaches pull double duty in that time as they finish preparations for the game directly in front of them and also take time to introduce themselves via film to the opponent one week out.

Washington Commanders vs Philadelphia Eagles Monday Injury Report – Hogs Haven
The Washington Commanders enter their Week 11 matchup against the Philadelphia Eagles with a long list of players dealing with injuries. The two teams will play on Thursday Night Football in Philadelphia, so today’s injury report is an estimation based on their walkthrough and previous injuries.

Dan Quinn: Commanders ‘mad’ following loss to Steelers as they prepare to face Eagles on ‘TNF’ – NFL.com
The Washington Commanders couldn’t hold a late lead Sunday against the Pittsburgh Steelers. The 28-27 loss offers first-year coach Dan Quinn a chance to see how his club responds to adversity. “So, this was a hard loss, no doubt about it,” Quinn said Monday, via the team’s official transcript. “And the response is what was so important. So, what I saw on the field last night, towards the end in the locker room of guys talking to one another, they were mad. And that’s what I honestly wanted to see on these missed opportunities to say, ‘How do we make sure that doesn’t happen again?’”

Cowboys Rumors: QB Will Grier Signs Contract amid Dak Prescott Injury, Rush Struggles – B/R
After a short stint with the Eagles to start the year, Grier is now back in Dallas.

Cowboys lose to Eagles day after thoughts: It feels bad because it is bad – Blogging The Boys
It is hard to remember the last good thing that happened to this team. To be clear I know the answer here, but you need to properly understand the question first. What I am asking is for the last time in which you felt pure, absolute joy for the Dallas Cowboys. It is my belief that the answer is/was December 30th of last year. It was on that fateful Saturday night that the universe apparently decided we had had enough joy. You see on that night Jimmy Johnson took his rightful place in the Dallas Cowboys Ring of Honor and the Cowboys were on the right side of a definitely-suspect officiating call while facing the Detroit Lions. As a result of that game, and the week that followed, the Cowboys were NFC East Champions and the #2 seed in the entire conference. That win meant that much and that it came on Jimmy’s night, also the evening in which CeeDee Lamb set the receiving records that he did, made it all feel like destiny. While the Cowboys did win their next game, for the most part that was the beginning of our current doom. Shortly after Jimmy laughed with Michael Irvin and Emmitt Smith on the floor of AT&T Stadium, the Green Bay Packers laughed in the playoffs as they made the Cowboys the first number two seed to lose in the Wild Card Round (only a possibility since 2021) in NFL history. After that? There was all-in, no free agency, talk about Ezekiel Elliott, actually bringing Zeke back, a suspect-ish draft, delay after delay on extensions, signing the extensions in question to the ridiculous numbers they had reached when they didn’t have to and, oh yea, literally all of this season. We have been crawling through this mud for a long time now and figuring out when it ends is sort of impossible.

Brian Daboll opens the door to replacing Daniel Jones as New York Giants starting QB – Big Blue View
Brian Daboll did not announce a change at quarterback for the New York Giants on Monday. He did, though, open the door to benching starter Daniel Jones when the team returns from its by week to face the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday, Nov. 24 at MetLife Stadium. “We’re going to spend a lot of time here watching our tape and evaluating things and we’ll do that as a coaching staff over the next week here,” Daboll said on Monday. When asked that question in previous weeks, Daboll has always unequivocally said Jones would remain the starter. After a 20-17 overtime loss on Sunday to the Carolina Panthers in which Jones played poorly, Daboll opened the door to starting either Drew Lock or Tommy DeVito in Week 12 against the Buccaneers.

NFL Draft 2025 order after Week 10, updated following Rams-Dolphins – SB Nation
For many NFL fans, November brings dreams of a deep playoff run, and perhaps a Super Bowl title. For other NFL fans, November is the time of year when they start checking standings of a different sort: The order for the upcoming NFL Draft. While some teams are making a push for the playoffs, other teams — and their fans — are looking at the incoming crop of talent and making plans to visit Mobile for the Senior Bowl, Arlington for the Shrine Bowl, and maybe even Indianapolis for the NFL Scouting Combine. If you fall into that category, here are the standings you are worried about right now: The current 2025 NFL Draft Order.