PHILADELPHIA — The Eagles were cooked from the beginning.
The offense ushered in the New Year with lousy play-calling and sub-par decision-making from spot starter Gardner Minshew. During the first half of Sunday’s contest against the Saints, the Eagles were scoreless and managed just two meaningless first downs across five drives. The Saints compiled the perfect mix of intermediate completions, gut-wrenching rushes, and clock-eating possessions.
Entering halftime, Minshew and Co. were booed by the crowd at Lincoln Financial Field. The Eagles mustered slightly better effort in the second half, but an assortment of penalties and Marshon Lattimore’s pick-6 off Minshew sealed the home team’s fate: an embarrassing 20-10 defeat to an underwhelming Saints team that departs Philadelphia with just its seventh victory.
