3 Reasons Jalen Reagor can’t be blamed for Eagles loss versus Giants

2. The Eagles coaches are much more to blame for this than players.

We could have easily walked away from this one talking about the Eagles’ third straight win, an impressive job by Jonathan Gannon, and how his unit played well. Instead, we’re talking about three dropped passes on the final drive by Jalen Reagor and a 17.5 quarterback rating by Jalen Hurts.

For some reason, with the game on the line, the decision was made that Reagor needed to be given every opportunity to be the hero. He was targeted three times on the final drive. Dallas Goedert was targeted once. DeVonta Smith wasn’t targeted at all. Let that sink in for a second.

While that’s on your mind, try and mull this one over. Dallas Goedert and DeVonta Smith combined for the same amount of targets that were given to Reagor (seven). The best players aren’t being given the lion’s share of the opportunities in this offense.

Forget about the expectations of him coming through in crunch time. We might need to be asking ourselves whether or not Reagor deserves to be on the field at all. He hasn’t proven to be a satisfactory starting wide receiver, nor has he proven that he can be trusted in the return game (four punt returns resulted in 18 yards).

No one should be angry because Reagor didn’t come through with the game on the line. Why would we expect him to? We’ve never seen him do it, have we?

What we need to be asking ourselves is why the Eagles keep trotting him out onto the field in an attempt to manufacture evidence that he can be a great payer in the NFL. It isn’t going to happen.