by Inside Roobs Eagles stats: Historic pass defense and Nick Foles loses record originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia
Nick Foles loses a franchise record, the Eagles continue to play elite pass defense and something that has never happened to Mike Tomlin before.
All that – plus a generous amount of Jalen Hurts stats and much more – in this week’s edition of Roob’s Eagles Stats.
This team is a stats lover’s dream and we are here for it.
1. Let’s talk pass defense
The Eagles have allowed an average of 147.9 net passing yards during their 10-game winning streak. That’s the fewest passing yards they’ve allowed in a 10-game span (within the same season) since Week 6 through Week 16 of the 1991 season, when they allowed 142.3 per game. The Eagles are the first team since the 1975 Super Bowl champion Steelers to allow fewer net passing yards during a 10-game winning streak. The Eagles have allowed 225 or fewer net passing yards in 10 consecutive games, their longest streak since 11 games in 1974.
2. Break a Nick Foles record
LeSean McCoy isn’t the only Eagle to lose an all-time franchise record recently. Nick Foles lost one on Sunday. Foles finished his Eagles career with a passer rating of 93.2. Jalen Hurts came into the Steelers game with a passer rating of 93.1, but by going 25 of 32 for 290 yards with two touchdowns and no interceptions, he raised his career rating to 93.6 and replaced Foles at the top of the Eagles’ all-time passer rating Ranking. Hurts started the season at 91.9 and dropped to just 90.7 before the bye. But he increased his rating to 91.2 after the Browns game, 91.5 after the Giants, 91.9 after the Bengals, 92.5 after the Jaguars, 92.7 after the Cowboys and Commanders, 92.8 after the Rams, 92.9 to the Ravens, 93.1 to the Panthers and now 93.6 to the Steelers. Hurts finished 27thTh in NFL history at the start of the season, but now ranks 21stst with Josh Allen.
3. First time in 307 games for Mike Tomlin
The Eagles outscored the Steelers 401-163, and if you don’t remember a Mike Tomlin-coached Steelers team passing for 238 yards in a game, it’s because that’s never happened before. Tomlin has coached 307 games and that 238-yard gain is the largest he has ever had on the wrong side. The previous high against Tomlin was 236 yards, as the Ravens outscored the Steelers 457-221 in a 28-24 Steelers win at M&T Bank Stadium in 2020. The Eagles’ 238-yard gain was the largest against a Steelers team in 26 years. as the Bengals outgained the Steelers by 272 yards (483-211) in a 25-24 win at Three Rivers Stadium in 1998 (behind 367 yards from future Eagle Jeff Blake).
4. Double studs
This was the fourth game in which AJ Brown and DeVonta Smith both passed the 100-yard mark in the same game. That’s the most games by an Eagles duo in franchise history in which both had 100 yards. Two duos have done it three times: Tommy McDonald and Pete Retzlaff from 1960 to 1962 and Brent Celek and DeSean Jackson from 2009 to 2012. The only other duos with two are Timmy Brown and Tommy McDonald from 1960 to 1962 and Pete Pihos and Bobby Walston back -consecutive weeks in 1953. Of the 36 games in Eagles history in which two players played 100 yards, this was the first time neither could catch at least 25 yards. Brown’s 100-yard game was the 17thTh his Eagles career. Only Pete Retzlaf (23), Mike Quick (21) and DeSean Jackson (21) have more.
5. The “More Jalen Hurts” stats section
5A. Hurts completed 78 percent of his passes on Sunday, his fifth game over 75 percent this year. Only 13 quarterbacks in NFL history have had more than 75 percent games in a season, and Hurts still has three games left. Hurts has 12 career games in which he completed 75 percent of his passes, twice as many as any other Eagle. Foles had six.
5B. Hurts has thrown 255 passes with just one interception in his last 11 games, the most passes in franchise history over an 11-game stretch with one or fewer interceptions. Only 10 quarterbacks in NFL history have thrown more passes with one or no interceptions in an 11-game span. It hurts up to 12Th In NFL history, the interception rate is one every 50 attempts.
5C. With three more touchdowns – two passing and one rushing – Hurts increased his career total to 139 in 65 career starts. This is the 6thTh-Most TDs of any quarterback in NFL history in his first 65 starts, behind only Patrick Mahomes with 166 (158 passing, 8 rushing), Dan Marino with 159 (157, 2), Aaron Rodgers with 150 (134, 16) , Joe Burrow at 141 (130, 11) and Josh Allen at 140 (117, 33).
5D. Hurts is now 46-19 in 65 career starts. The only quarterbacks to win more of their first 65 starts are Mahomes (52), Ken Stabler (51), Tom Brady (50), Daryle Lamonica (49), Roger Staubach (48), Russell Wilson (47) and Lamar Jackson ( 47).
5E. With his 14thTh With his rushing touchdown, Hurts is further behind than any quarterback has ever been in a season. Hurts shares the record with Josh Allen with 15 rushing TDs last year.
5F. Hurts leads the NFL with 14 rushing touchdowns, one more than Derrick Henry and James Cook. The last quarterback to lead the league in rushing touchdowns was Johnny Lujack of the Bears with 10 in 1950.
5G. During the 10-game winning streak, Hurts had a passer rating of 121.7 after halftime on 58 of 85 for 851 yards with five touchdowns and no interceptions. That’s 27 incomplete passes in 10 games after halftime. During that span, only Lamar Jackson (128.6) and Jared Goff (123.2) had a higher score of 2nd-Half passer ratings than Hurts.
6. About to join an elite company
With eight catches for 110 yards, Brown increased his season total to 56 catches for 946 yards with five touchdowns. He needs just 54 yards to join Mike Quick as the second Eagle with three consecutive 1,000-yard seasons. Quick had three straight seasons from 1983 to 1985. The only other Eagles with a total of three 1,000-yard seasons are DeSean Jackson (2009, 2010, 2013) and Harold Carmichael (1973, 1978, 1981). Despite missing three games, Brown ranks ninth in the NFL in receiving yards. On Sunday, he increased his total yards with the Eagles from 3,788 yards to 3,898, passing Brian Westbrook (who was in the game) and Calvin Williams to move into 14th placeTh in Eagles history in just 45 games.
7. A1stQuarter explosion
The Eagles scored 10 points in the first quarter on Sunday, ending a streak of 30 consecutive games in which they did not score double-digit points in the first quarter. The last time the Eagles scored 10 or more points in the first quarter was last year in the season opener at New England, when they scored 16 on Darius Slay’s 70-yard pick-6 from Mac Jones and Jalen Hurts’ 5-yard TD pass scored by Devonta Smith and a 32-yard field goal by Jake Elliott. The 30-game series was the 3rdapprox– the longest in franchise history, following a 41-game streak from 1935 to 1938 and a 33-game streak from the 1975 to 1977 seasons. Ironically, they extended Pittsburgh’s streak of games without 10 points in the first quarter to 48 by held the Steelers to three points in the first quarter.
8. Crazy consistency
The Eagles have scored at least 20 points and allowed 20 or fewer points in six straight games. It equals the longest series of its kind in franchise history. The 1953 team did it too. It’s the 10thTh-Longest streak ever by an NFL team scoring 20 or more points while allowing 20 or fewer.
9. Double run
With Hurts scoring 14 touchdowns and Saquon Barkley 11, the Eagles became just the fifth team in NFL history to have two players with 11 rushing TDs in the same season. But one of three to make it this year. Paul Hornung and Jim Taylor did it in 1960 for the Packers and in 2022 for the Eagles with Hurts and Miles Sanders, and this year, in addition to Barkley, David Montgomery and Jahmyr Gibbs of the Lions and Josh Allen and James Cook of the Bills did it and hurts. So in the first 104 years of the NFL it happened twice, and this year it has already happened three times. With 55 career rushing TDs, Hurts is just 14 behind Hall of Famer Steve Van Buren for the Eagles franchise record.
10. Seventeen games and counting
The Eagles may have the No. 1 defense in the NFL, but they are one of only two teams that haven’t gotten an interception by a cornerback this year. The Eagles have played 17 straight games since Kelee Ringo struck out Tyrod Taylor in the Eagles’ win over the Giants in Week 16 last year. The only team with a longer streak is the Bears, who haven’t gotten an INT by a cornerback in their last 33 games – since Kyler Gordon hit Josh Allen in a loss to the Bills in Week 16 of 2022. The Eagles only had four INTs from cornerbacks last year – two from Darius Slay, one from James Bradberry and Ringo. Going back to the end of 2022, the Eagles’ cornerbacks have recorded four INTs in their last 34 games.
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