Philadelphia Eagles: 5 positive talking points from the Week 1 loss

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It wasn’t all bad during the Philadelphia Eagles Week 1 loss.

That Week 1 loss to Washington was ugly, like really ugly. Despite jumping out to a 17-0 lead, the Philadelphia Eagles managed to choke their season opener away one turnover at a time. The offensive line allowed a league-high eight sacks, Carson Wentz turned it over three times, Zach Ertz had a crucial drop on fourth down, and the defense forced zero turnovers.

Losing 27-17 to the Washington Football team is inexcusable, and there’s plenty of blame to be passed around to a handful of individuals. Outside of the before mentioned players, I felt the coaching staff was completely outperformed by Ron Rivera and his new crew, and some of the roster holes that Howie Roseman has left unfilled were really brought to attention.

However, there were some genuine positives to take away from the game.

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Despite myself spending the last few days talking about how horrible the team’s depth is and how Fletcher Cox hasn’t lived up to his contract as of late, I wanted to take a moment to breathe, and acknowledge some of the guys who really showed up on Sunday.

16 games is a lot of games to play (although not as many as some people like to pretend it is), so there’s definitely adequate times to start turning things around. On the backs of a few key performers, there’s mild reasons to believe that things won’t completely bottom out.

At the very least it gives us a few fun players to watch for the rest of the season, even if the team isn’t poised to defend their division crown.

With all that said, here were the top five positives to take away from Sunday’s crushing loss:

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