Philadelphia Eagles: 3 Things we’ve learned after NFL season’s first month

One month of the Philadelphia Eagles’ season is over.

It’s been a long month. Remember how great everyone felt when the Philadelphia Eagles ran rough shot over the Atlanta Falcons? Jalen Hurts jersey sales were through the roof. Philly was the top dog in the NFC East after a week. There was an electric feeling that was permeating through the fan base.

Three weeks later, the Birds are coming off of three straight losses. The last two were extremely embarrassing, and even though no one wants to admit this, those preseason Vegas predictions stating the Eagles would win six games or so are creeping back into the back of everyone’s minds.

All of a sudden, there are more questions than answers. No one knows how long it will be before this team is competitive again or if Howie Roseman can be trusted to make the decisions with what might be three first-round draft choices in the first round of the 2022 NFL Draft, or why everyone’s afraid to criticize Fletcher Cox when he clearly isn’t the player that he once was (but he’s still getting paid like he is).

Predicting Philly’s cloudy future is enough to make one’s head spin, but the picture seems to be coming into focus slightly. Here are three things that we’ve learned after the first month of the 2021-2022 NFL regular season.