If they had to play important reps, you’d feel pretty good about it.Ĥ. Those guys aren’t as good as the starters, and that’s why they’re backups, but they’re all smart, tough and physical. They were as vanilla as possible, but solid line play is solid line play, and offensive line coach Jeff Stoutland finds a way to get everybody in his room ready to play. With Andre Dillard, Sua Opeta, Cam Jurgens, Jack Anderson and Jack Driscoll, the Eagles put together a 14-play, 76-yard TD drive and a 17-yard, 75-yard TD drive that both took up about 7 ½ minutes. The Eagles’ first two drives really demonstrated how deep their offensive line is. He’s just better than Reagor. And it's not close.ģ. He’s got great size at 6-2, 200, he’s got some experience – he started six games for the Colts and Steelers in 2019 – and he’s by far the best of the next group behind DeVonta Smith, A.J. He had back-to-back gains of 24 and 23 yards on contested catches from Gardner Minshew in the second quarter and finished 5-for-66. What you saw Sunday afternoon is what Cain has been doing all summer. Jalen Reagor hasn’t had an awful training camp, but it would be a mistake to keep Reagor over Deon Cain. Not alarming but definitely disappointing.Ģ. And some of these guys are going to have roles on defense – Nakobe Dean, Davion Taylor, K’Von Wallace, Jordan Davis – and you don’t want to see them get gashed like that by a 27-year-old journeyman who’s thrown 17 career passes. But the Browns’ first four drives netted 280 yards, 139 rushing yards, 20 points, 3-for-5 on third down and 7.0 yards per play. Yes, the Eagles are vanilla on defense, and they’re not blitzing or running any of their real stuff.
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We saw very little pass pressure, too many receivers running free and shoddy run defense. Several of those guys were also still on the field when the Browns opened the second half with a 75-yard TD drive. You'd like to see that group figure out a way to stop veteran Joshua Dobbs and the Browns’ second offense, but as a group they seemed a step slow or out of place much of the time. Not an encouraging performance from the second-team defense, which let the Browns drive 80 yards in eight plays for a TD on their first possession, then allowed field goals on the next two.
Here’s our 10 Instant Observations from the second of three preseason games.ġ. The Eagles finished their five-day stay in Northeastern Ohio Sunday with a 21-20 win over the Browns at FirstEnergy Stadium in Cleveland. Some shoddy defense by the backups, a game-winning touchdown by a guy who hadn’t caught a pass in six years and a safety who finally made his presence felt.