When Eagles defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz looked at the tape from last week’s game with Washington, he saw plenty of problems. When he looked in the mirror, he saw another.
Via Paul Domowitch of the Philadelphia Daily News, Schwartz was brutally honest when asked about last week’s flat tire, in which the Eagles gave up 493 yards, 230 rushing yards and recorded no sacks.
“We were bad at all three levels,’’ Schwartz said. “No, let’s make that four levels. We were bad at defensive line. We were bad at linebacker. We were bad in the secondary.
“And we were bad at the defensive coordinator position.’’
The Eagles got off to a great start as a defense, and bounced back from a bad first half against the Lions to play better. But there was nothing good about last week’s performance and Schwartz said that started with him.
“It’s my job to put the fires out,’’ Schwartz said. “And to find something, when we’re not having a great day, to be able to have a changeup somewhere. Unfortunately, my changeups didn’t work either.”
Schwartz has practical autonomy, as rookie head coach Doug Pederson doesn’t fiddle with the side of the ball he knows less about. So that puts a lot of pressure on Schwartz, and he knows that.