NFL Scout's Take on Eagles' Evolving Identity, NFC's Surprise Contender Emerges | MAILBAG

Answering your questions as Week 8 of the 2024 NFL season kicks off

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Week 8 is here, as contenders load up ahead of the NFL trade deadline, and teams in the middle of the pack begin jockeying for position as the stretch run to the postseason looms large.

Inside this week’s Mailbag; a current NFL scout offers his detailed thumbnail on how he believes the Eagles’ offense will shape up down the stretch, my take on which team currently with a winning record is bound to regress, and a check in on Mike MacDonald’s upstart Seattle seahawks.

Let’s get to your questions!

After putting almost 270 yards on the ground, will the Eagles finally start to lean into the run game a little more? It takes the pressure off a shaky Hurts and slows down the game so you're not chasing yards from 3rd and long all day. (ItsOnlyDoug on Threads)

In a lot of ways, Sunday’s victory over the New York Giants was an embodiment of how the Philadelphia Eagles expected the offense to operate, when firing on all cylinders, despite A.J. Brown being the only wide receiver to tally a single receiving yard.

Still, Philadelphia doubled down on Saquon Barkley and the ground attack, with the former No. 2 overall pick running roughshod over his former team for 176 yards and a touchdown, on 17 carries, before turning down an opportunity from Nick Sirianni in the fourth quarter to remain in the game and chase his career-high, insisting instead that younger players get the snaps.

I asked a veteran scout for one of the Eagles’ NFC rivals how he expects Philadelphia’s offense to take shape over the second half of the season, and he says he expects Moore to adopt a bit of a chameleon mentality.