The Philadelphia Eagles have been dealing with a gauntlet of difficult opponents over the last several weeks, and they had been dealing with it very well until their 42-19 loss on Sunday to the San Francisco 49ers. They will have an opportunity to get back on track this Sunday, but they will have to do so on the road against the Dallas Cowboys, a team that has been getting hot lately
These two teams met in the Delaware Valley in Week 9, and the Eagles won by five points when Prescott failed to lead what would’ve been the game-winning drive with less than a minute left. If the Cowboys triumph this time, it would give them an excellent chance of not only finishing first in the NFC West but of claiming the top seed in the entire conference.
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Dre Greenlaw is the 49ers’ undisputed enforcer, so say his coach and teammates. That allows him to be the “Big Play Dre” who made a goal-line tackle as a 2019 rookie in Seattle to secure the division title and the No. 1 seed for a Super Bowl-bound team.
Yet he also is the one who has gone overboard with unsportsmanlike conduct penalties. But that doesn’t necessarily make him “Dirty Dre.” “Just because you tackle a little physical doesn’t make you a dirty player,” Greenlaw said Wednesday, speaking for the first time since a sideline scuffle with the Eagles security chief saw them ejected from the 49ers’ 42-19 win in Philadelphia.
Greenlaw, through third-party intermediaries, said he has exchanged apologies with Eagles security czar Dom DiSandro, adding: “He seemed like a genuine guy, a guy everybody loved in the building. Honestly, I really hate it even escalated and went to that. It’s something I’ve never been a part of or seen in a game.”
