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Eagles News: “This isn’t a very good defense right now”

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Roob’s Observations: 49ers hand Eagles 2nd loss of season in rematch of NFC Championship Game - NBCSP
1. That big giant 42 really sticks out. Hey, the Eagles’ defense has been held together with duct tape all year, but they kept finding ways to beat good teams and shut down good quarterbacks when they had to and all the points and yards allowed and bottom-10 rankings didn’t seem so important because they were a 10-1 team that knew how to win. So you just shrugged it all off. But 42 points? At home? In a huge game against a budding rival with playoff enormous implications?