Eagles

What is Malcolm Jenkins Trying to Say?

By Kevin Kinkead

Published: Oct 22nd, 2019 · 3:40 PM EDT

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Hot debate in the Crossing Broad Slack channel.

Is Malcolm Jenkins throwing Carson Wentz under the bus? Is he saying Nick Foles is the better quarterback? It stems from this quote he dropped today, courtesy Zack Rosenblatt at NJ.com:

Malcolm Jenkins was asked what changed for the #Eagles last year when they were struggling and turned it around.

Said offense changed when Nick Foles stepped in at QB and that the defense was simplified and “let the defensive line eat”.

Here’s the full quote … pic.twitter.com/xCOSbFk3sx

— Zack Rosenblatt (@ZackBlatt) October 22, 2019

I dunno. I don’t see it.

Malcolm Jenkins could be shading Wentz, but it’s hard to parse the quote that way when he says this, verbatim:

“You had Nick Foles coming in and obviously that changed a lot of what we did on offensively (sic).”

It’s true that the Eagles offense was different with Foles in there. They schemed and game-planned differently. The offense was typically simplified when Nick played, not dissimilar from the way Jim Schwartz simplified things on the defensive side as a result of the myriad injuries that plagued the team.

I hate to say it, but I think the longer the offensive struggles continue, the more credence it lends to the “Frank Reich and John DeFilippo” take. It’s not that it’s a bad take, per se, it’s just impossible to qualify since those guys didn’t call the plays and we weren’t sitting in the meetings with them.