The Dallas Cowboys and the Philadelphia Eagles were tied for first place in the NFC East division. The Cowboys had made it known that they was going to pressure Eagle’s quarterback Nick Foles and challenge their receivers. The Cowboys forced Foles to create outside of the pocket and throw inconsistent passes to his receivers when he was in the game;during the second quarter Foles left the game with an apparent head injury. Matt Barkley in his debut had an awful game; he had threw three crucial interceptions that were forced in double coverage.
Chip Kelly was frustrated with the players and how they played.”He was off,” head coach Chip Kelly said of Foles following the game. “At times we had guys open and we didn’t put the ball on them but there were other times where we didn’t help him either. “I don’t have an answer for it. It’s everybody on the offensive side of the ball. I don’t think we blocked the ball very well and I don’t think we caught the ball very well. I don’t think we got off our routes very well. It was 11 guys on offense. It was all of us on offense. It was me calling plays, it was everybody. It’s not just one guy.
“”We didn’t play well at all offensively,” said Kelly. “We didn’t do anything to help us out. I thought our defense did an outstanding job all day. I think our special teams besides the one kickoff did a really good job on a team that was probably the most dangerous return team in the league, but offensively we couldn’t get anything going.”
LeSean McCoy only rushed for fifty-five yards, while DeSean Jackson was held to three catches for twenty-one yards. The defense for the Eagles looked very sharp; in the last three games they have held opponents under 21 points.
“I think you were really excited about how our defense was playing,” said Kelly. “Overall, over the course of the game, I thought they played with great effort. I thought they did a really good job against an explosive passing operation. Dez Bryant was out there, (Jason) Witten was out there, Tony Romo’s one of the top quarterbacks in this league. So I think our defense gave us some optimism at that point in time.”
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