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Vic Fangio was asked on Tuesday what in specific he valued about Baun’s efficiency. “All of it,” Fangio informed press reporters. “He played actually great. I believe it’s a reflection that he played all camp, practiced all camp. In 2015 he missed out on the majority of camp with a back injury. When you practice, you play much better.” Baun had a great season in 2025 that meritoriously led to a Pro Bowl nod. Now completely healthy, he looks quite like the guy who ended up fifth in Defensive Player of the Year ballot in 2024.

It’s simple to take a look at the Eagles scoring 24 points, balancing 6 backyards per play, and conclude the offense played well in the very first video game of the season. I do not believe it did. The Eagles produced 318 backyards, however 180 of them began 4 plays. They completed with just 10 very first downs, punted 7 times, and had 6 ownerships without making a single initially down. They likewise went three-and-out on 3 successive drives in the 3rd quarter. Elite gamers made adequate elite plays to win the video game, however they revealed little consistency. We saw this sometimes last season. The Eagles won video games regardless of the offense stopping working to develop any rhythm, and the outcome typically camouflaged the efficiency. That is not sustainable. It is Week 1. Sean Mannion is a new offending planner, and the Eagles are still exercising what this offense must appear like. I’m not stressing after one video game. The crucial thing is whether Mannion acknowledges the issues and adapts. Let’s enter the movie. We are back, infant!

Ojomo shares a position group with 2 of the NFL’s 10 highest-paid protective takes on. Jalen Carter and Jordan Davis were first-round choices who signed profitable agreement extensions this offseason. Ojomo is “happy and pleased” for his colleagues. He likewise declines to take a rear seats. “I’m constantly attempting to be the very best,” Ojomo stated this summertime. “We have a very crammed space. Those guys understand I’m not pulling back from anything. The objective is constantly to be the very best defensive deal with, which’s the state of mind. I wish to make more plays, I wish to have more sacks, I wish to make more TFLs, I wish to be the very best in the space and the very best in the league.” Ojomo’s skill is clear in the Eagles locker space– or the NFL. Ojomo played 66 percent of the protective snaps last season and ended up second on the group with 6 sacks. On Sunday, he played 69 percent of the protective snaps and prevented the Commanders’ two-point conversion effort to connect the video game in the 4th quarter when he spun far from a block and overthrew the ball provider on a shovel pass except completion zone. Ojomo stated he saw the guard pull and expected the play– “You can’t play indecisive,” he stated– and the series was more than the ideal location at the correct time. “I believe part of it is because of his effort,” protective organizer Vic Fangio stated. “His dogged effort plays a part because, which he’s a little small as D-tackles go, and he requires to have all that things working for him. He does have excellent impulses, however he provides fantastic effort and he’s solid. They had not revealed that (play). Undoubtedly, that was an unique play they had actually formulated for a 2-point play, and it was more of his response and impulses after the ball was snapped than anything pre-snap.”

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This brings us back to A.J. Brown. Basic supervisor Howie Roseman wound up trading among the leading 5 gamers on his lineup for absolutely nothing that will assist this year’s group. He invested his first-round draft option on a broad receiver, Makai Lemon. There is absolutely nothing you might perhaps state that would encourage me the Eagles would have prepared a wideout in the preliminary with a healthy, pleased A.J. Brown in home. It would have been dumb. Roseman’s offending line-building technique was asserted on Dickerson and Jurgens (prepared 51st general in 2022) being long-lasting bulwarks. The Eagles have not prepared an offending lineman in the very first 2 rounds considering that Jurgens. And they no longer utilize offending line coach Jeff Stoutland, kept in mind designer of O-line skill. Offered Lane Johnson’s supposed upcoming retirement (yes, fans of training school practice reports, I know third-round task Markel Bell, certainly he’s headed for Canton when he really plays), they remain in risk of seeing the group’s structure gradually collapse away.

Jaaqua Hunt, a long time instructor, has a preferred stating that she shows her trainees and with her boy Jalyx, the third-year Eagles outside linebacker– “bloom where you’re planted.” “You do not need to come from a location to end up being a part of that location,” she stated. “So, make the most of where you are.” Jaaqua stated it’s ended up being clear that Jalyx is listening. He isn’t belonging to Philadelphia. He was born in Memphis, Tenn., however he invested his teenage years in the Orlando location, then moved with his household back to Tennessee, then to Maryland, then to South Carolina, then back to Florida. In Philadelphia, however, Hunt has actually discovered a brand-new home– and an extended household off the field. Hunt has an older sis, Jessica, and what he calls a “entire lot of little siblings” in the numerous trainees at Little Flower Catholic High School for Girls in the Hunting Park area of North Philadelphia. His relationship with the school started in 2024, the year the Eagles prepared him in the 3rd complete of Houston Christian, when he began a fundraising event for underfunded school sports programs. Little Flower’s basketball group raised their hands.

They prepared Jalen Carter due to the fact that of his capability to collapse the pocket, his capability to pack the run and his capability to bury quarterbacks. They got all that and more. Ends up Carter is among the very best kick obstructing experts in the NFL. On Sunday, he tape-recorded his 4th obstructed kick as a professional, a substantial play that altered the skin tone of the Eagles-Commanders season opener. Over the last 40 years, Carter has actually the most obstructed kicks on the Eagles, another than Derek Barnett obstructed throughout his 7 seasons here. The active NFL leader is Calais Campbell, now with the Ravens, who’s obstructed 10 begins his 19 NFL seasons. “It’s good to have him on our group,” unique groups coach Michael Clay stated Tuesday. “It’s great to have that field-goal block system. He takes pride in the field-goal block system. Recently, Joe P. (assistant unique groups coach Joe Pannunzio) had the flooring for about 7 minutes to reveal the significance of our field-goal block group, and they all take it to heart, how they might alter a video game.”

The Landon Dickerson circumstance bears seeing in Philadelphia. To his credit, Dickerson hammered out a lot to end up being the 37th choice in the 2021 draft– he tore both of his ACLs (one at Florida State, the other at Alabama), and ended up 4 of his 5 seasons in college with season-ending injuries. More just recently, he had meniscus surgical treatment last summer season. Dickerson himself stated he was a “total liability” attempting to play through it in the opener, and has actually shared that he wasn’t himself in 2015 after the meniscus injuries. All of these things accumulate, and everybody’s body has an odometer. And without Dickerson for the time being, the line, which has actually constantly been the group’s structure, will have its depth checked. The bright side is that Willie Lampkin and Drew Kendall had excellent summertimes and will take a crack at to reveal they’re the next discoveries in the Eagles’ big-man assembly line.

14) DeVonta Smith, Philadelphia Eagles. Smith was kept fairly peaceful versus the Washington Commanders however created a huge 31-yard reception when the Eagles required a trigger. He required a missed out on take on, made an objected to catch and ended up with a 74.8 PFF getting grade.

Sean Mannion has actually spoken and shown self-confidence relating to the offending line depth the Eagles accumulated throughout Training Camp and in the preseason, and now that depth is going to be tested in the routine season. With Pro Bowl left guard Landon Dickerson sidelined, as Mannion acknowledged in his Tuesday interview at the Jefferson Health Training Complex, the Eagles will have the next guy step up. Who will that male be? Mannion is keeping the strategy under covers as the Eagles get ready for a journey to play the Tennessee Titans in Week 2. “We’re going to keep that internal in regards to what our strategy is for today, simply for competitive factors,” Mannion stated. “We have a great deal of guys in advance that can play several areas. We’ve been training them at all areas, so that provides us some versatility there.”

Simply where are we with Ward after Week 1? It was a rather advantageous start for Ward and the Titans offense versus the Jets. The second-year passer finished simply 19-of-32 passes for 140 lawns and a goals, and while he did prevent tossing an interception, a few of the sophisticated metrics were not too kind. Ward published an Adjusted Net Yards per Attempt of simply 4.2, ranking him 28th amongst all 32 certified passers in Week 1. He fared a little much better in QBR, as his mark of 34.3 ranked 26th in the league amongst certified passers. Ward was likewise in the middle of the pack when taking a look at Quarterback Efficiency as charted by RBSDM, which analyzes Completion Percentage Over Expectation and Expected Points Added per Play.

The only favorable takeaway from the Tennessee Titans’ Week 1 mistake was the efficiency of novice linebacker Anthony Hill Jr. The 60th general choice in the 2026 NFL Draft taped a team-high 16 deals with. The Titans require to begin Hill and Cedric Gray at linebacker versus the Philadelphia Eagles in Week 2. Hill began in location of Gray, who stopped working to clear concussion procedure in time for Week 1 after suffering an off-field leisure mishap. That put Hill in the beginning lineup beside seasoned Cody Barton. The novice maximized the chance.

Stoll bet the Eagles from 2021 through 2024. He began 4 video games last season with the Saints, capturing 6 passes for 46 backyards. Throughout his profession, Stoll has 32 starts. At his size and with his experience, Stoll most likely has actually the very best shot to make the lineup. Kyle’s upgrade, 3:53 p.m. PT: The 49ers signed Stoll to the practice team, per Mike Garafolo.

On Monday, the Dolphins generated experienced long snapper Cal Adomitis for an exercise to see if he might possibly backup Addington or begin for him if the 29-year-old can’t go. Adomitis dipped into Pittsburgh from 2017-21, making All-American honors and winning the Patrick Mannelly Award (provided to the very best long snapper in the country) in his last year. After going undrafted in 2022, he signed with the Cincinnati Bengals and invested 3 seasons with the group. The 28-year-old split the 2025 season in between the Philadelphia Eagles and Pittsburgh Steelers and divided this offseason in between the Steelers and Green Bay Packers. In 4 seasons, he’s appeared in 58 video games.

The New York Giants are riding high after a terrific win over the Dallas Cowboys to open the season on Sunday Night Football. The win over the Cowboys was almost whatever the Giants might have requested. It was a conclusive declaration win over a department competitor that had actually been non-stop gassed up over the previous 4 months. At the exact same time, the Giants weren’t ideal and have plenty to deal with as they prepare yourself for the Los Angeles Rams on Monday Night Football. Possibly most importantly, the Giants’ young gamers all stepped up in the win. The Giants are depending greatly on very first and 2nd year gamers to form the core of their group, the Giants’ novice class definitely appeared like they belonged on the field beside their veteran colleagues. Let’s have a look at each of the Giants’ novices who added to the win.

The Commanders opened their season on the roadway, in what is constantly a hostile environment in Philadelphia. In spite of being heavy underdogs, Washington in fact had an extremely competitive video game versus the 2025 NFC East champs, having a possibility to connect the video game in the last minutes. Eventually, the Commanders fell 24-22 to the Eagles and fans had lots of concerns about a few of the choices made by this personnel after the video game’s conclusion– with most of them being reasonable asks. What can Washington and head coach Dan Quinn do to repair the present problems on this group?

Brandon Aubrey missed out on an additional point on Sunday night versus the New York Giants. No damage, no nasty. Additional points are missed out on all of the time in the NFL? We should not be going nuts over a single kick. This isn’t like early in Aubrey’s profession where he was automated and the out-of-nowhere miss out on was nearly amusing since it was so unusual. The important things is, we are absolutely not in those days any longer. There isn’t any genuine requirement to stress at this moment in time, however Brandon Aubrey’s misses out on are ending up being a little a thing now. Which needs to be talked about.

A 14-year Week 1 record has actually been matched. Thanks to the Kansas City Chiefs and Denver Broncos integrating for 41 points on Monday night, the opening slate of video games for the 2026 season has actually formally connected the 2012 season’s record for the many Week 1 points scored (791) throughout the Super Bowl period. Getting in Monday’s AFC West face-off, groups had actually balanced 50.0 combined points per video game, per NFL Research, with the Week 1 ending bringing the average to 49.4.

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