In Roob's Eagles Stats: Some crazy Dallas Goedert numbers amidst the misery
The weekly Roob’s Eagles Stats column runs rain or shine. Which means it’ll be here stuffed with unique numbers, stats and trends whether the Eagles win big or lose big.
And no matter how bad things get, I’ll always try to start out with some positive stats just so we can all maintain our sanity over here.
After a game like that? It’s not easy to find them.
Fortunately, we have Dallas Goedert!
So we’ll start out with some crazy Goedert numbers and we unearthed a few other positive ones.
But after No. 3? Proceed at your own risk.
1A. With nine catches for 110 yards and a touchdown, Dallas Goedert increased his career total to 425 receptions (including playoffs), tying Brent Celek for 2nd place among tight ends in Eagles history. Zach Ertz caught 612 passes. Goedert caught 425 passes in 74 fewer games than Celek. Goedert is now tied with Celek for fifth in Eagles history in receptions. Only Harold Carmichael (618 catches), Ertz (612), Brian Westbrook (459) and Pete Retzlaff (453) are still ahead of him.
1B. Goedert caught another touchdown, giving him five in the last four games. He’s never had more than five in an entire season and just once – back in 2019. The only other Eagles tight end with five TD catches in a four-game span is Ertz, who had five in four games in October of 2017 against the Cards, Panthers, Washington and 49ers. Goedert is the third Eagles tight end with a touchdown catch in four straight games. That equals the franchise record by a tight end set by Charle Young over 1974 and 1975 and matched by Ertz in 2017. Goedert is two games shy of the overall team record of six, set in 1985 by Mike Quick.
1C. Goedert’s seventh career 100-yard game puts him fourth among Eagles tight ends, behind Retzlaff (23), Ertz (12) and Celek (8).
2. This wasn’t one of Jalen Hurts’ better games, but that won’t stop us from finding stats that make it look like he played better than he did. That’s the beauty of stats! You can make them say whatever you want!
2A. Hurts completed 72.7 percent of his passes, his 24th career games over 70 percent. Only Patrick Mahomes – with 26 – has had more in his first six NFL seasons, and Hurts presumably has 11 starts to go this year. Joe Burrow and Tua Tagovailoa also had 24 in their first six seasons. Tua, like Hurts, is in his sixth season.
2B. Before his 4th-quarter interception, Hurts increased his streak of passes without an INT to 304 passes, the 10th-longest streak in NFL history. Hurts passed Bart Starr (293) and came up four passes shy of the 9th-longest streak, Bernie Kosar’s 308 in 1991 with the Browns. Eagles safety Ben Smith ended that streak before tearing his ACL later in the same game, a 32-30 Eagles win at Municipal Stadium.
2C. The Giants game was Hurts’ 26 with both a passing and rushing touchdown, 5th-most ever behind Cam Newton and Josh Allen (45 each) and Steve Young and Aaron Rodgers (31 each). Hurts’ rushing TD was his 60th, which trails only Newton (75) and Allen (68) among quarterbacks.
3A. Patrick Johnson picked up his first career sack in his 43rd career game as an Eagle. That ends the longest streak of games played by an Eagles edge rusher without a sack. The Eagles’ previous record for consecutive games without a sack was 27 by Mike Flores over the 1991 through 1993 seasons. Including the time he spent last year with the Giants, Johnson had played 54 consecutive games without a sack before Thursday night.
3B. Moro Ojomo leads the Eagles with two sacks, and Ojomo and Johnson were both 7th-round picks, Johnson in 2021 and Ojomo in 2023. This is the first time two players the Eagles drafted in the seventh round or later have had sacks for the Eagles in the same season since 1993, when 1986 9th-round pick Clyde Simmons had 5.0, 1991 11th-round pick Flores had 3.0 and 1986 8th-round pick Seth Joyner had 2.0.
OK, that’s all I’ve got when it comes to positive stats. Hang on for dear life from this point forward!
4. Let’s start by taking a look at the Eagles’ insane streak of getting blown out after halftime. Three games in a row now they’ve been outscored by double digits in the second half – they hung on to beat the Bucs despite getting outscored 19-7 in the second half, then the Broncos outscored them 18-7 in the second half and on Thursday night the Giants had a 14-0 edge after halftime. This is the first time in 27 years and only the second time in 50 years they’ve been outscored by 11 or more points in the second half of three consecutive games. Last time it happened was during the nightmarish 3-13 1998 season, when they got outscored 24-0 by the Seahawks in the second half at the Vet (and lost 38-0), then got outscored 17-3 in the second half in Atlanta (and lost 17-12) and then got outscored 17-3 in the second half by the Cards in Tempe (and lost by the same score). Last time it happened before that was 1972. The last NFL team with a winning record to get outscored by 11 or more points in the second half of three straight games was the 2017 Cowboys, a streak that included a 37-9 loss to the Eagles at AT&T Stadium.
4A. The Eagles have been outgained in all six games so far, only the fifth time in the franchise’s 93-year history that’s happened. Also 1940, 1968, 1971 and 1999. They’re the first team in NFL history to win a Super Bowl one year and be outgained in their first six games the next year. Of 92 teams all-time that have been outgained in each of their first six games, only five have gone on to make the playoffs – the 1972 Browns, 2001 Jets, 2005 Giants, 2016 Raiders and 2023 Steelers. None reached the Super Bowl.
4B. The Eagles have been outgained by 410 yards so far this year, the largest margin after six games – not surprisingly – since 1999, when they were outgained by a whopping 696 yards in Andy Reid’s first six games as an NFL head coach. They’re the 12th team all-time to be outgained by at least 400 yards through six games and still have a winning record. This is also the first time the Eagles have been outgained by at least 150 yards both passing and rushing through six games since 1999.
5A. Man, the last thing on Earth I want to do is write about Cam Skattebo, but here we go. Skattebo became the 19th player all-time, the first New York Giant and the sixth rookie to rush for three touchdowns in a game against the Eagles. The last player – and rookie – to do it was David Johnson of the Cards in a 40-17 win in Tempe, Ariz., in 2015.
5B. With Skattebo’s three TDs and one by Jaxson Dart, the Giants became the first team in 35 years with two rookies rushing for touchdowns against the Eagles in the same game. In 1990, Johnny Johnson and Anthony Thompson each had one in the Eagles’ 23-21 loss to the Cards at the Vet. The only other time rookies ran for four TDs in a game vs. the Eagles was in a 42-7 loss to Washington at Griffith Stadium in 1957, when Don Bosseler ran for three TDs and Jim Podoley had one. Good ol’ Jimbo Podoley.
5C. At 22 years, 149 days, Dart became the 3rd-youngest quarterback ever to beat the Eagles. Jameis Winston – now the Giants’ 3rd-stringer – was 21 years, 320 days, when he beat the Eagles in 2015 with the Buccaneers, and Ralph Gugliemi was 22 years, 133 days, when Washington beat the Eagles 34-21 at Griffith Stadium in 1955 (but he completed only two passes).
5D. Dart’s 20-yard touchdown run was the longest TD run by a rookie quarterback against the Eagles in 79 years, since Jim Youel of Washington had a 36-yarder in the 27-10 win over the Eagles at Shibe Park in 1946.
5E. Dart became the first quarterback with a 20-yard touchdown run and a 20-yard touchdown pass in the same game against the Eagles since his backup, Russell Wilson, did it for the Seahawks at the Linc in 2014. He’s the first QB ever to do it in a first quarter.
5F. The last time the Eagles allowed touchdowns of at least 20 yards both rushing and passing in a first quarter was 36 years ago, in the historic win in Washington in 1989. Washington took a 20-0 lead in the first quarter, starting off with an 80-yard TD pass from Mark Rypien to Gary Clark followed by Gerald Riggs’ 41-yard touchdown run. Washington led 27-7 late in the second quarter before the Eagles rallied to win 42-37 when Riggs – who ran for 221 yards in the game – fumbled with 1:27 left and Washington running out the clock. Seth Joyner forced the fumble, Al Harris recovered at the Eagles’ 19-yard-line and lateraled to Wes Hopkins, who returned it 77 yards to the Washington 3. Randall Cunningham’s TD pass to Keith Jackson on the next play gave the Eagles their only lead of the game and Jerome Brown’s sack and forced fumble on the next play clinched the Eagles’ 6th-biggest comeback win ever.What made that win even more memorable was that the day before the game, Cunningham became the highest-paid quarterback in NFL history when he signed a five-year, $15 million contract extension in the Arlington, Va., hotel room of team president Harry Gamble.
6. The Eagles have rushed for 86, 88, 45 and 73 yards in their last four games, only the third time in the last 50 years they’ve gone four straight games with fewer than 90 rushing yards. It happened six straight games in 2005 and before that four straight in 1984. Their 572 rushing yards are their fewest through six games since 2008, when they had 515. Their 3.5 rushing average is their 2nd-worst after six games since 1991. They were at 3.4 in 2005.
7. Stathead tracks 3rd-down conversion data going back to 1991 and the Giants game was the first during that 35-year span that the Eagles converted fewer than 15 percent of their third downs (11.1 percent) and allowed their opponent to convert over 65 percent [68.8 percent). Their streak of five straight games under 36 percent on 3rd-down conversions is their longest since a seven-game streak to open the 1999 season.
8. The Eagles didn’t force any turnovers for a second straight week, and they’re now 9-14 under Nick Sirianni when they don’t have any takeaways. They’re 49-11 when they have at least one. They were minus-one or worse for the first time in 13 games and minus-two or worse for the first time in their last 23 games – since Tampa in Week 4 last year. Their streak of 12 straight games without a negative turnover margin was 2nd-longest in Eagles history (they had a 16-game streak over the 1987 and 1988 seasons) and their streak of 22 straight at minus-one or better was 2nd-longest behind a 30-game streak from 2000 through 2002. When the Eagles are minus-two or worse in turnover margin they’re 3-10 under Sirianni and when they don’t they’re 55-15.
9. The Eagles have gone 11 consecutive games without recording more than two sacks. That’s the longest streak in franchise history. They had two or fewer sacks in 10 straight games in 1993. Last time they had more than two sacks in a regular-season game was the Ravens game in Week 13 last year, when Nolan Smith and Jalen Carter had full sacks and Zack Baun and Jalyx Hunt split a third. The Eagles’ 14 sacks since the Panthers game a week later are the fewest in franchise history in any 11-game span. The Eagles’ nine sacks so far this year are their 3rd-fewest after six games since sacks became an official stat in 1982. They had seven after six games in 2012 and six in 1993.
10. Eagles cornerbacks have gone 23 consecutive regular-season games without an interception, a streak that goes back to Kelee Ringo picking off Tyrod Taylor of the Giants at the Linc in Week 16 of the 2023 season. Adoree Jackson – who has alternated with Ringo at CB2 this year – had a 76-yard pick-6 for the Giants in that game. The 23-game streak without an INT by a cornerback is the Eagles’ longest ever.
In Roob's Eagles Stats: Some crazy Dallas Goedert numbers amidst the misery
