Jordan Mailata didn’t sugarcoat what went wrong for the Eagles on Sunday night.
After Philadelphia’s 27-10 loss to the Commanders in Landover, Md., the left tackle put the offensive line squarely in the spotlight, calling out the group’s breakdowns in a game that quickly got away from the offense after a fast start.
“It’s something that’s unacceptable,” Mailata said. “We can’t win games like that.
I kind of put all the blame on us up front and put all the blame on myself because you just can’t win games by not being able to be efficient in the run game, not being able to protect your QB. It kills momentum and it’s just bad ball, man.
Bad ball. We got to get back to work and have a good look in the mirror, man.”
The Eagles scored the first 10 points of the game in the opening quarter, then went silent the rest of the way as they dropped their sixth straight game. It’s the first six-game losing streak for Philadelphia since the 2012 season.
The problems up front were impossible to miss. The Eagles finished with just 91 rushing yards, and 25 of those came with Tanner McKee scrambling under pressure. The running backs combined for only 64 yards, averaging 2.67 yards per carry.
McKee was under siege all night. He was sacked five times for 35 yards and hit eight times by Washington.
According to NextGen Stats, the Commanders generated pressure on 46.5% of McKee’s dropbacks, a season high for them. Their blitzes were especially damaging, producing 10 pressures and a sack on 12 blitzes for an 83.3% blitz success rate.
When Washington didn’t blitz, its pressure rate dropped to 32.3%.
Even when the Eagles identified some of the pressure looks, too many rushers still came free.
“There were execution errors and communication errors,” Mailata said. “We have guys in the backfield getting TFLs.
Just very inconsistent play by us up front tonight. It shows that you can’t play like that in the NFL.”
The Commanders entered the game with only 11 sacks in six games and were missing two of their best interior linemen, which only made the Eagles’ struggles look worse. Philadelphia’s offensive line has not looked like the unit fans have come to expect in recent years, and two of the five opening-day starters are no longer on the roster, with Lane Johnson retired and Cam Jurgens traded to the Ravens.
That backdrop has only sharpened the questions around the new coaching setup. Jeff Stoutland and the Eagles split this offseason after 13 seasons together, after Stoutland’s role was reduced during the 2025 season. Philadelphia turned to Chris Kuper to help guide the line through the transition into Sean Mannion’s offense, but the results so far have not matched the plan.
Mailata even nodded to that old connection during the Sunday Night Football introductions, when he again described himself as a graduate of “Jeff Stoutland University.”
There are plenty of reasons the Eagles sit at 2-6, but the play of the offensive line belongs near the top of the list.
“You’ve got to keep pushing on, man,” Mailata said. “I don’t know any other way but having pride, coming into work and working on the stuff that we suck at, the stuff that we didn’t execute.
You’ve got to hold your head up high and keep coming to work because the guy next to you. That defense, man, they gave us so many opportunities and we let them down tonight.”
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