It comes down to three things, doesn’t it?
1. Run the ball.
2. Stop the run.
3. Don’t turn the ball over.
There are a million ways to look at this thing, and by the time these two weeks of inaction are finally over, we might have covered them all. But the recipe the Eagles need to follow is so elementary that it borders on cliche.
That was the secret in Week 10 last year, wasn’t it? For as much focus as was paid to Matt Ryan and Carson Wentz and Julio Jones during the run-up to the Falcons’ trip to Lincoln Financial Field in mid-November, the story of the Eagles’ 24-15 win was as follows …
Ryan Mathews, Wendell Smallwood, Darren Sproles: 34 carries, 198 yards, two touchdowns.