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Bowen: Eagles need to rev up run game

THE EAGLES' longest run last Sunday at Cincinnati went for 10 yards, and the runner was Carson Wentz.

Splashier, more spectacular failures commanded the headlines in that 32-14 loss, the Eagles' third in a row, with each of those setbacks more onesided than the one before it.

There was a lot of analysis of Wentz, of his three interceptions, of the way his mechanics deteriorated. But as the Bengals' margin increased, to 29-0 in the third quarter, Doug Pederson made rookie Wentz the fourth quarterback in franchise history to attempt 60 passes. This was, as Pederson noted this week, "kind of a recipe for disaster.