Injuries or Season From Hell? Rams-Eagles Takeaways

HofmannThey pulled out the 49ers substation in the middle of the game, and they just started dropping like flies. Yeah, it was rough. And hopefully some of these injuries are two or three weakers, and they're able to get these guys back. Maybe they win a couple games. And then, yeah, maybe in November, December, they'll start to play better football with most of these guys.

HofmannBut it is true. And it does make you reflect on these past four or five years, because like you said, like, I mean, both Super Bowls they played in. Wasn't it like 21 of 22 starters?

KapadiaI was repeating every starter times that week. I don't remember what it was, but it was something like that.

HofmannAll right. Well, that's not normal. And as much as we want to credit the Eagles training staff, and seriously, I hope those guys got every bonus available in their contract for those few years. It just doesn't happen that much, right? And so, yeah, I'm not sure it's the year from hell.

HofmannThis was certainly, I would say, the game from hell when it came to all of the injuries that they were dealing with. My big concern with it, Jill, if this is the year from hell, and I would say the argument maybe to not give them the benefit of the doubt, is they went three and out the whole year last year, too.

HofmannAnd, like, this is a lot of the same stuff that we saw, inconsistent offensive line play, which is probably the genesis of all these issues.

HofmannThat would be the big thing. And it's like in that building, whether it's Sean Mannion or Nick Sirianni or whoever, like who is coming up with the answers to work around not having a plus plus talent. And that would be my reason for skepticism and just like, how is this going to get fixed moving forward?