PHILADELPHIA -- The old adage when covering a team [or anything else] is to pay attention to what they do and not what they say. But in the case of the Philadelphia Eagles (3-3), it's important to focus on each, because both their actions and words deviated from the norm this week, sending a message that they have reached urgent, if not desperate, times.
What the Eagles did was cut starting linebacker Zach Brown on Monday, three days after he called Kirk Cousins "probably the weakest part" of the Minnesota Vikings' offense, and one day after Cousins offered a rebuttal in the form of four touchdown passes en route to a 38-20 Vikings win.