He missed the entire 2002, 20 seasons - he played 15 games from the end of the 2001 season until the start of 2006. The dude bounced back from three torn ACLs. Correll Buckhalter is one of the most underrated and underappreciated Eagles of the last 20 years. From 1993 through 2006, half of the Eagles’ first-round draft picks - 6 of 12 - started fewer than 40 games in an Eagles uniform: Lester Holmes (38), Freddie Mitchell (17), Bernard Williams (16), Jon Harris (8), Leonard Renfro (2) and Jerome McDougle (0).ħ. So the Eagles accounted for 38 percent of the 45-0 games in NFL history in 36 days.Ħ. But the Eagles, during an eight-game winning streak on their way to their first NFL Championship, won three games by 45-0 in the span of six weeks. And there have only been five other 45-0 games in NFL history! No other team has won more than one game by a 45-0 score and the other five have been spread out - 1951, 1976, 1984, 19. While I was researching the 10 greatest defensive performances in Eagles history, I noticed something really weird: In 1948, the Eagles won three games by identical 45-0 scores in the span of 36 days, two of them in the span of eight days. For the sake of comparison, Nelson Agholor’s career averages are 45-for-503.ĥ. He is fast when he’s healthy, but his career season averages are 20 catches for 332 yards. He’s had one year in seven NFL seasons with more than 431 yards, and at his age - he’ll be 30 this fall - you’re almost always already who you’re going to be. It’s hard to imagine Marquise Goodwin making much of an impact.

But the Eagles haven’t had a ballhawk in the secondary since Asante Samuel a decade ago. Now, I understand that opposing quarterbacks weren’t throwing his way that much and I understand that a big part of interceptions is pass pressure. Darius Slay is supposed to remedy that, but although he led the NFL with eight INTs in 2017, he’s only had five the last two years - tied for 31st-most in the NFL. Amazing that they’ve been as good as they’ve been without those impact plays that shift field position. Only four teams had fewer interceptions the last two years than the Eagles, and that’s a tough way to play defense.

That made them only the second team in NFL history with back-to-back playoff seasons with 11 or fewer interceptions (along with the 20 Saints). It’s pretty wild that the Eagles have reached the playoffs the last two years despite just 10 interceptions in 2018 and 11 this past year. That's just a small sample of the goodies awaiting you in today's Roob's Random Eagles Observations!ġ. John Hightower's secret weapon, a 1948 statistical absurdity and whatever happened to Juan Castillo?

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