The Commanders' Sam Howell threw four touchdown passes and for nearly 400 yards, so the Eagles' defensive backs weren't overly celebratory after the win. Still, Blankenship came up big.
The Eagles safety shot a quizzical look to a cluster of reporters and cameras waiting to interview him after his team’s 38-31 win over the Washington Commanders on Sunday, uncertain if they’d meant to grab someone else.About an hour earlier, the second-year defensive back read Washington quarterback Sam Howell’s eyes and was in the right spot when his pass sailed over Terry McLaurin’s outstretched hands and into Blankenship’s.
Last week’s performance against the No. 1-ranked Miami Dolphins offense suggested the defense could be on the upswing, but Washington offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy’s plan to get the ball out of Howell’s hands quickly and exploit pre-snap tells from the Eagles defense gave the group fits for most of the afternoon. Howell came into the game the most-sacked quarterback in the league, but it took the Eagles 3½ quarters to record a sack.
After joining the team in a trade last Monday, veteran safety Kevin Byard said there would be a sobering film session to dissect what went wrong for the secondary at FedEx Field. The former Tennessee Titans All-Pro may be less than a week into his Eagles tenure, but he wasn’t shy in assessing his performance.
The Eagles got caught in unfavorable coverage looks on multiple occasions, including one in which Sydney Brown got out-leveraged by Jahan Dotson for a 21-yard touchdown as Blankenship rotated down and out of the play. Other times players just lost their one-on-one matchups, like on McLaurin’s 26-yard touchdown in the first quarter, baiting James Bradberry with a stutter move before getting past him.
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