Eagles News: “The Cowboys have the shakiest defense in the league”

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2025 NFL projections, power rankings, Super Bowl predictions – ESPN
Projected defenses to allow the most points: Dallas Cowboys, 439 points. The Cowboys allowed the second-most points last season, and that was with Micah Parsons for 13 games. Parsons was traded to Green Bay on Thursday for defensive tackle Kenny Clark and two first-round picks. Linebacker Eric Kendricks, nickel corner Jourdan Lewis and edge rusher Chauncey Golston are also gone. Sprinkle in a few lingering injuries (including top linebacker DeMarvion Overshown), and the Cowboys have the shakiest defense in the league. Facing the Eagles and Commanders twice will only boost their points allowed.

Who should Eagles fans put their money on in 2025? – BGN
The Eagles’ defense will have to undergo some growing pains. Defensive coordinator Vic Fangio pieced the defense together last season and will be counted on to do the same this year. “It’s hard to repeat as Super Bowl champions and NFC East champions, but the good side is the Eagles are playing against a lot of weak defenses this year,” Maltepes said. “Look at Dallas, look at Chicago, look at Washington. The Eagles are the cream of the division and I expect them to win the division again. The over/under is 11.5 wins, and that will be a hard number to reach. The Eagles play nine teams expected to make the playoffs (Chiefs, Rams, Broncos, Commanders, Lions, Chargers, Packers, Bears and Bills) this year. Two of the Eagles’ first four games are on the road, the Rams come in looking for revenge over the playoff loss last season, with Tampa Bay and Kansas City on the road, and Denver improved as the season went on last year.”

Running back handcuff tiers for 2025 fantasy football – SB Nation
Will Shipley, Philadelphia Eagles: Shipley turned some heads during training camp and he is expected to serve as the backup running back for the reigning Super Bowl champions this season. The Clemson product had very limited playing time as a rookie last season and that’s understandable given his spot on the depth chart and Saquon Barkley’s workload. Given that Barkley registered over 480 touches between the regular season and the playoffs combined last year, the team will most likely alleviate some of that burden by giving extra touches to Shipley. And if the reigning NFL Offensive Player of the Year were to go down with an injury, the second-year back suddenly becomes a top handcuff for fantasy managers.

Eagles mailbag: Can the 2025 team be better than the 2024 Super Bowl team? – PhillyVoice
Question from @BigsWinz: Why would the Eagles let Darius Slay and Isaiah Rodgers go? Did they legit believe they had a starting CB2 in house already? Salary cap websites like OverTheCap are generally great resources for a lot of things, but they don’t adequately show the Eagles’ complex cap situation, which should really be viewed through a multiyear lens, as opposed to year-to-year. As such, it’s difficult to “show my work,” so to speak, but the short answer is… money. I can’t speak to whether or not they truly believed they had a starting CB2 in-house already. They were certainly hopeful. Obviously, Kelee Ringo had a disappointing summer and Adoree’ Jackson isn’t a player to get excited about. We’ll see soon enough what that all looks like, and if it’s not good then they have 12 draft picks in 2026 to use as trade chips to fix it.

Roob’s Eagles Observations: Why A.J. Brown will be a Hall of Famer one day – NBCSP
Gabe Hall was on the practice squad. So was Fred Johnson. Britain Covey, Brett Toth, Braden Mann and Ben VanSumeren as well. Jakorian Bennett? Was never on the Eagles’ practice squad, but Thomas Booker was, and he’s the guy the Eagles traded to the Raiders for Bennett. As the Eagles get ready for the Cowboys Thursday night, it’s fun to think about just how many guys on this Super Bowl-caliber roster came up through the ranks of the practice squad. Nobody makes better use of the practice squad than the Eagles, who have been known to stash veterans on there (41-year-old Josh McCown, future Hall of Fame Julio Jones, 30-year-old slot corner Parry Nickerson this year) but mostly use it to help develop young players. The Eagles have an elaborate developmental program, with young guys getting extra reps as a group after practice, and it pays off. Not every player is ready as a rookie. There’s nothing wrong with not playing as a rookie or in Year 2. Every player has his own path, and sometimes it takes a while to figure things out, and the practice squad is the perfect place to do that. Some teams just give up on guys who don’t flash right away. The Eagles have the patience and the staff to develop raw talent. That’s why you see so many of their late-round draft picks turn into starters. Hall, the undrafted interior defensive lineman, is the perfect example of that. He was overmatched last year as an undrafted rookie out of Baylor, but he had this red-shirt year on the practice squad working with defensive tackle coach Clint Hurtt, sitting in meetings with Jordan Davis and Jalen Carter, practicing every day with a Super Bowl team and even getting a ring. A year later, he made the 53 and looks ready to contribute. Some practice squad guys just disappear after a few weeks, never to be heard from again. Has anybody heard from Ross Pierschbacher lately? The Eagles had 41 different guys on the practice squad in 2024, which might be some kind of record. But when it pays off, it can pay off in a big way. It’s hard enough finding talented players. It’s even harder developing them. The Eagles are very good at both.

2025 NFL playoff predictions: Picks for 8 division winners, 6 wild cards – NFL.com
NFC EAST: PHILADELPHIA EAGLES. The NFC East’s decades-long streak without a repeat winner is officially on notice. The reigning division and league champs are forecasted to retain at least one of those crowns this season, garnering 93% of the first-place votes in their group — and our analysts expect their dominance once again to extend beyond just the East, with the Eagles being the lone NFC team to appear on all 29 ballots. That said, don’t sleep on the Commanders, who ranked third in wild-card confidence one year after a 12-win campaign earned them the conference’s No. 6 seed.

Jerry Jones’ trade of Micah Parsons feels like a power play – Blogging The Boys
Two different players, with two different players personality, resulting in wildly different outcomes. Jones has to understand that the days of old aren’t the way things are done anymore and a handshake deal or number written on the back of a dinner napkin is made for TV like his Netflix special. Ultimately, Jones drew a hard line in the sand, asking Parsons to play under the fifth-year option or go elsewhere and Parsons obliged. A star player on a Hall-of-Fame-like trajectory is now elsewhere because Jones couldn’t get with the times. Old habits die hard.

Survey results: Giants fans are optimistic entering the season – Big Blue View
Summer is the time for optimism in the NFL. Teams have gone through free agency and the draft, acquiring the talent they hope will take them to the next level, or help them remain competitive if they’re already on top. For some teams, training camp and preseason saw those hopes dashed and expectations come crashing back to Earth. For fans of the New York Giants, however, the optimism that’s permeated the franchise since the spring has remained unabated. In fact, the optimism seems to have grown over the past month, and now a full 85% of the Big Blue View community say that they’re at least “cautiously optimistic.”

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