The Philadelphia Eagles head into their Bye week sitting at 6-2 and on top of the NFC East, yet their record doesn’t fully reflect how ugly their play has been this season.
At times, both the offense and defense have looked out of sync, struggling with consistency and execution. Still, the team has managed to find ways to win, which has been the perfect testament to their resilience.
As quarterback Jalen Hurts has often reminded everyone, the ultimate goal isn’t perfection, but rather winning.
The Eagles’ best football is yet to come
The Eagles may not have fully hit their stride just yet, but with the talent and leadership in the locker room, their best football is on the horizon. If they can clean up the mistakes and find a rhythm coming out of the Bye week, another deep postseason run is well within reach.
“Well, we’re always in this process of becoming, it’s the reality of it,” Hurts said. “The goal is to be playing your best ball at the end of the season, and there’s a process that you have to go through to get that. There are going to be tests along the way, but you have to embrace those challenges as they come. And I think we do that as a group. And so there’s a focus to do that.”
Hurts emphasized that those who stepped up big time at certain positions in the Eagles’ well-balanced Week 8 win over the New York Giants only proved just how deep their depth chart runs.
“You saw a lot of guys make big time plays today and step up in different roles that they traditionally are not asked to do,” Hurts said. “[Eagles OL] Brett [Toth] taking full command up front, leading the way. You can’t ask for anything more when he comes in and he does that. He knows the game, he knows what we do. And all those guys out wide doing the same thing. So, just wanting to continue to play clean ball. I can’t talk about the running backs enough, how they played. It’s just playing team football and playing together, really, playing together, having a bit of a mess and flow to what we do.”
Perhaps the dangerous part about all of this is that Hurts remains unsatisfied.
“Definitely a lot of work to do. I think the best is yet to come,” Hurts said.
