Special teams have played a significant role in the early part of the NFL season, with field goals and blocked kicks influencing game outcomes. The Philadelphia Eagles have contributed to this trend by blocking three kicks in their last two games and scoring two touchdowns as a result. Across the league, nearly 80 percent of kickoffs have been returned through four weeks, highlighting the impact special teams can have on momentum.
One notable change this season is the increase in long field goals. Several factors are contributing to this development: improved kicker performance, warm weather conditions, and new K Ball rules. Previously, teams received K balls from officials shortly before games and had limited time to prepare them. This year, teams are given 60 K balls before preseason and can break them in during practice throughout the week. For each game, three prepared balls are selected for use up to three times each before being retired from circulation. As a result, kickers are more comfortable with the footballs, leading to longer successful attempts. Recent examples include a 65-yard field goal kicked by Tampa Bay in warm weather.
The Eagles are one of only two undefeated teams after four weeks—the other being Buffalo—marking just the eighth time in franchise history they have started 4-0. Head Coach Nick Sirianni has now led an Eagles team to such a start three times, becoming only the third coach in NFL history to do so within his first five seasons alongside Paul Brown and George Halas.
Sirianni’s record stands at 52-20 (.722) as head coach of the Eagles—the second-best winning percentage among Super Bowl era coaches—and he is fourth all-time in NFL history for this metric. Since Week 14 of his first season after the bye week, Sirianni’s record improves further to 46-13 (.780). The team is currently on a ten-game win streak that ties its franchise record set last season.
Defensively, Philadelphia has excelled in red zone situations this year. Opponents have completed just 20 percent of passes inside the red zone against them and hold a passer rating of only 33.3 there. On third and fourth downs inside their own 20-yard line, opposing quarterbacks complete less than half their passes (44.4 percent) with a combined passer rating of 60.2; Philadelphia has forced three turnovers and allowed only four touchdowns on nine opponent trips into their red zone.
Across all situations—not just inside the red zone—the Eagles’ pass defense leads the league by holding opponents to a completion rate of just under 57 percent despite facing established quarterbacks like Dak Prescott, Patrick Mahomes, Matthew Stafford, and Baker Mayfield.
Tight end Dallas Goedert has made significant contributions on offense so far this season with twelve catches on thirteen targets—a catch rate over ninety-two percent—which leads all players at his position league-wide; he is tied for most touchdowns scored by tight ends alongside Hunter Henry and Dalton Kincaid.
Philadelphia’s home-field advantage remains strong as well: The team has won twelve consecutive games at Lincoln Financial Field since 2021 (including playoffs), compiling an overall home record of twenty-eight wins against five losses during that span as they prepare for Sunday’s matchup against Denver.
On defense, interior linemen Jordan Davis (seventeen tackles), Jalen Carter (five quarterback hits), and Moro Ojomo (thirteen quarterback hurries) have delivered strong performances early in the campaign; Ojomo also leads defensive tackles league-wide with sixteen pressures and has recorded two sacks—a career high.
