Dallas Cowboys legendary quarterback and three-time Super Bowl winner Troy Aikman gave his thoughts on what is going on with the Philadelphia Eagles and how the fans should be feeling about the team head into Monday night’s Wild Card matchup at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
“I think they’re already concerned (laugh),” Aikman said in an interview with the New York Post. “This is an interesting team because they played so well on that stretch of games that they had — I mean, they had a Murderers’ Row of games that they had to play, and yet they beat Washington; they beat Dallas; they go to Kansas City, they beat Kansas City; they beat Buffalo, and you’re like, ‘Whoa!’ and they won five straight.”
The Eagles were one of the more perplexing teams in the NFL this season, starting 10-1 with impressive wins in Kansas City, as well as against the Buffalo Bills and Dallas Cowboys.
However, the middle of the season saw Philadelphia face its most difficult stretch of the season, and the
“Then they, of course, lose a couple of games,” Aikman said. “San Francisco, you knew that was going to be a tough game, they lose that game. They lose Dallas, and it just felt like everything imploded after that — beginning at the executive level, in the front office, because I don’t know that all the changes that we’ve seen or everything that we’ve witnessed on the field is where it ends. It just feels like there was an overreaction by a lot of people, and now it just feels like there’s disarray throughout the entire organization. And what this might look like on Monday night, and what it might look like after this game if they were to lose I’d anybody’s guess.”
