The Philadelphia Eagles seem to be having a Super Bowl hangover, and everyone seems to have a different idea what is wrong with the team. Eagles center Jason Kelce thinks the most significant issue this year compared to last is this team doesn't have the accountability.
They lost a lot of players from last year's team who held others accountable and those players being gone have hurt this year's team, via ESPN.
“Last year, it just seemed like everybody was clicking. We had guys like Brent Celek who had been here a long time who was very accountable, Torrey Smith who had been in the league for a long time, very accountable. Mack Hollins was a guy that gave great effort. LeGarrette Blount and all of these running backs that, they had their limited amount of stuff that they had to know, but they knew what to do, and they knew how to do those things. That's what we're missing. We're missing that accountability.”
Kelce wanted to make sure he made it clear that he isn't taking shots at this year's team, and a lot of the problems the younger guys can't even help. Those guys had just been around the game for a long time and knew how life in the NFL works, and some of the younger guys are still trying to figure it out.
“[Last year] there was a much greater level of accountability from a cohesive standpoint of everybody working together, and part of that is just on the makeup of the team and guys having done this for a long time and knowing the ins and outs of the game.”
The Eagles currently sit with a 4-5 record, and they have an uphill battle to even make it back to the playoffs, something no expected coming into this season.
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