Philadelphia Eagles: 3 takeaways from a disastrously bad Week 1 loss

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The Philadelphia Eagles looked absolutely horrible.

After months and months of painful waiting, the Philadelphia Eagles somehow made everyone’s life worse with their Week 1 performance. Despite jumping out to a quick 17-0 lead, the team (primarily the offense) completely collapsed heading into the second half and beyond.

Quarterback Carson Wentz threw two interceptions and lost a fumble, the offensive line allowed eight total sacks (the most allowed by an Eagles O-Line in over ten years), multiple players joined the already crowded injury club, and Doug Pederson’s play calling was questionable all game long.

People generally knew that the Eagles might struggle this afternoon, after all they were down seven total starters, with three of them on the offensive linemen. However, I don’t think anyone saw a scenario this apocalyptic. Wentz quite literally had one of his worst career games as an Eagle, and Philly ended up allowing 27 unanswered points to an organization without an actual team name.

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While some may be quick to point out that Week 1 takes tend to be overreactions, this performance was pretty damning on a franchise that has not exactly been getting better as of late. The Philadelphia Eagles have struggled mightily with injuries and bad contracts, and it seemed to be only a matter of time before it started catching up on them.

With a truly brutal schedule this season, and the injury bug only set to get worse, a lot of the takeaways from this Week 1 loss will remain applicable for the foreseeable future.

With all that said, here are the three biggest takeaways from the Philadelphia Eagles embarrassing 27-17 Week 1 loss.

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