Who is the best option to replace Nakobe Dean? – NBC Sports Philadelphia

On January 27, 2025By Littum

How should Eagles start replacing Nakobe Dean? What was the biggest comeback after the season in Eagles History? How good was Quinyon Mitchell on Sunday?

Consider this Volume II in this week’s 10 random Eagles observations. We released the first batch on Wednesday and you can find them here.

And here’s something else to keep in mind: In 2017 and 2022 we sent a fresh batch of 10 observations every day in the Super Bowl week. Another two wins and we do it again.

1. ORE BURKS looks like an excellent special team player trying to play linebacker. Jeremiah Trotter Jr. Looks like a linebacker playing linebacker. Burks are tough and physical and give 100 percent effort. I just see something else when Trotter plays, and it’s the instincts and athletics that make him such an exciting young view. And I’m sure Vic Fangio sees the same thing, and that’s why Trotter will have at least some role in defense – and possibly a significant – Sunday when Eagles face Rams at Linc. Nakobe Dean will be missed in so many ways. He has played at a Pro Bowl level and he is developed into an important young leader at NFL’s # 1 defense, and Eagles have no one like him like him. But one thing you can tell pretty quickly to see trotter is that he is physical, he is around the ball, he moves well, he has got advanced football instincts – not surprisingly, considering his descent – and he is stronger in covering than burks. Why play both of them? Burks is a very knowledgeable 8th-year-old veteran who has played a lot of football. But I also want to see a generous help with trotter. I think despite his youth and inexperience that he is the better opportunity.

2. Nolan Smith has several Postseason Multiple-Sack games like Eagle than Reggie White.

3. AJ Brown has had fewer than 30 meters in three of four playoffs he has played for Eagles, and that needs to change. Brown had 6-for-96 in the Super Bowl, but 3-for-22 in 2022 against Giants, 4-for-28 against the 49s and 1-for-10 Sunday vs. Packers. It is 39 meters per day. Battle, and that’s not enough. I get out of the fact that you can’t go into a game trying to force a guy the football, but Brown is too good to be a non-factor in this year’s biggest matches. Nelson Agholor, Riley Cooper, Kevin Curtis, Thomas Sanders, Torrey Smith and Donte ‘Stallworth all have several meters per day. Fight in the mail season than Brown, and it’s unacceptable. He is one of the three or four best recipients in football and Jalen hurts, and Kellen Moore has to find ways to get him to go. He is too good to make news just to read a book.

4. Eagles are one of only four teams that reach the playoffs in each of the last four seasons. The others are Bucs, Chiefs and Bills.

5. One of the biggest comebacks after the season in the NFL story came in 1992 at Superdome, where Eagles returned from 13 points down late in the third quarter to beat the saints. The Eagles pulled 20-7 late in the third and 20-10 with only 10 ½ minutes left in the game. That’s when the biggest scoring sporeledness in the 4th quarter of the last 90 years began. First, Randall Cunningham threw a 35-yard touchdown pass to Fred Barnett to pull Eagles within three on 20-17. On the holy next games, Seth Joyner captured a Bobby Hebert Pass intended for Eric Martin and returned it 14 meters down to Saints ’26. Five pieces later, Heath Sherman scored from six meters to give Eagles a 24-20 lead. Three pieces into the holy next drives, Reggie White fired Hebert in the final zone for a security and 26-20 lead. A Roger Ruzek field goal increased the lead to 29-20 three minutes later, and on Saints’ next Snap, Eric Allen chose a Hebert-Pas intended for Wesley Carroll and returned it 18 meters for a touchdown and a 36-20 lead. Eagles scored 26 points at only 8:20 and outscored the Holy 26-0 to end the game. Until today, the 26-point margin is the largest in a postal season 4th quarter since 1934 (Da Giants Outscored Bears 27-0). Eagles are 1-11 in their story when they pull with double digits at the break in an end game. This game in New Orleans is still their only win. It was also Eagles’ only playoff victory between 1981 and 1994 and only Road Playoff victory for a 51-year period from 1950 and 2000.

6. Brian Westbrook has the two-Longest rushing touchdowns in Eagles Autumn History and they came six days. Westbrook ran 49 meters for a touchdown against Giants in Eagles ‘Wild-Card’s victory in 2006 at Linc and then had a 62-Yarder six days later at Superdome in the Eagles’ conference loss to the saints. Eagles’ next longest TD race in the playoffs was Wilbert Montgomery’s historic 42-yards to open the scoring in 1980 NFC Championship Game at the vet against Cowboys. Westbrook is one of only three players in the NFL story with two TD races of at least 45 yards in the same postal season. Elmer Angsman from Cardinals had two 70-yard TD races against Eagles in 1947 NFL Championship Game in Comiskery Park in Chicago, and Marcus Allen had a 49 yard against Steelers and a 74-Yard vs. Washington in the Super Bowl XVIII in Tampa in 1983.

7. With their 21-7 wild-card loss to Rams at the vet in 1989 and 20-6 Wild-Card Tab to Washington in 1990, Buddy Ryan Eagles is the only team in NFL History losing playoff games with 14 or more Points in consecutive seasons.

8. Eagles have had 10 All-Pro 1st team offensive Linemen since Jeff Stoutland became offensive line trainer in 2013. From 1940, the start of the AP All-Pro team, through 2012, the year before Stoutland came here, they had six (al Wistert 1944 to 1947, Chuck Bednarik in 1960, Shawn Andrews in 2006).

9. According to Stathead Analytics, Jordan Love 2-for-6 was in 10 meters when he targeted Quinyon Mitchell with 10 air yards and no yards after the catch. Mitchell’s defensive fit -rating of 2.8 is lowest on a record in a post -season game since Stathead began to track defensive fit -rating in 2018. Slay wasn’t far behind. Stathead has love 3-for-6 in 29 meters for a 24.3 assessment. It’s 8th lowest on record since 2018. Over the seven years that Stathead has tracked defensive passers -by, Eagles on Sunday became the first team ever with two corners that recorded a rating below 25 of five or more goals.

10. Among 117 quarterbacks that have thrown at least 100 postal season passports, Matt Stafford is tied to 4th accuracy (67.5 percent), 5th in passers -by (103.0), 5. In yards per year. Trials (8.4) and 6. in Yards per Fight (297). He goes on Sunday with a line of six consecutive playoffs with at least 200 passing yards, 65 percent completion percentage and at least one passing touchdown. The only quarterback with a longer strip is Peyton Manning, which made it eight straight playoffs from 2009 to 2013 – four games with Colts, four with broncos. When Stafford gets hot, he’s pretty dangerous. Eagles cannot let it happen and they have the secondary to make sure it does not.