With Carson Wentz Rolling, the Eagles are the best team in the NFC | Bleacher's report

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Over the past few days, we've learned a lot about NFC East.

The first is that the division is not particularly good. At the beginning of the 6th week, only one team from East NFC played football. 500. This was a 2-2 team from the Washington Redskins who just got pounded Monday night by the New Orleans Saints.

The second is that these Washington Redskins are not the best team of what could be the worst division of the NFL in 2018. LThis honor belongs to the Philadelphia Eagles who demolished an unfortunate team from the New York Giants 34-13 to move to 3-3 in the year.

And if the Eagles go another round in the playoffs and come back to the Super Bowl, it will be because quarterback Carson Wentz will take them there.

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Wentz, who missed the first two games of this season as he was recovering from the torn ACL that ended his 2017 season, made a second remarkable effort. After lightning the Minnesota Vikings for 311 yards and two touchdowns last week, Wentz had a better victory: 278 yards, three goals and a pass score of 122.2 out of a total of 26 losses.

The third year professional was positively deadly during the third fall. He had 10 out of 10 passes in his first 10 attempts in the third attempt for 155 yards and a pair of touchdowns.

This is called doing it in record time.

In some ways, a quarterback is as good as receivers who catch his passes, and Wentz has had a lot of help. Zach Ertz was a star player with seven passes for 43 yards and a touchdown. Nelson Agholor racked up 91 rushing yards, a high in the season, including a 32-yard reception that looked like an out-of-the-ordinary game.

Wentz has been steadily improving since his first home game against the Colts of Indianapolis Back in Week 3. When he looked shy and more than a little rusty against Indy, Wentz was decisive and insightful against the Giants.

After meeting with Fox's Erin Andrews after the match, Wentz awarded a fast start to New York for helping the team find his pace.

"I thought it was important for us to go out early and be part of the board," Wentz said. "The defense did a pretty good job in this first training, we had an excellent position on the field and we capitalized early.It's something we preach all the time starts fast, and we were able to do it tonight."

In short, Wentz looked like Wentz on Thursday, the young quarterback who was leader of the MVP before tearing his ACL in December. And the Eagles looked less like the heroic offensive than a month or so ago at the unit that was playing on the field with the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl LII with impunity.

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The Eagles earned a relatively modest 379-yard total against the Giants, but the team took full advantage. Philly was a remarkable 9-16 of 16 on the third try, largely because Wentz did not miss it when it mattered. The Eagles scored more points in the first half against the G-Men than during a full game this season.

After the match, Wentz told Andrews that the key to the offensive turnaround was simple: better execution.

"There's only [been] a lot of small mistakes, "he said. We obviously played good teams that did some things. But we had a lot of small mistakes. There are still things to clean, but hey, it feels good to return to the winning column. "

Wentz is right. A win against a bad team does not solve everything that hurts the Eagles. There's a reason they got into game 2-3, and before anyone starts making plans for Atlanta, there are some issues that need to be addressed.

A ground game that knocked out Jay Ajayi for the season in the home defeat of the Vikings last week was a bit difficult against the Giants. He had only 108 yards and an average of only 3.5 yards. The pass defense (or more precisely the part of the pass defense named Jalen Mills) continues to be inconsistent. And an offensive line that allows Wentz to take more than a few strokes lost as starting scorer, Jason Peters, biceps injured.

Given the speed with which Peters was ruled out for the rest of the match, there is reason to believe that this could be an injury for several weeks, although he said The Bowen's Philadelphia Inquirer that his biceps is "OK".

To say that this team is ready to face the Los Angeles Rams or the New Orleans Saints right now is a stretch.

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To say that the Eagles are the best team in their division is not, however. The Giants are a garbage dump fire that is sometimes interrupted by a Saquon Barkley highlight. The Dallas Cowboys would not have the best wide receivers of the Big Ten. And the Redskins do not manage to decide whether they want to be good or bad, but are content with mediocre ones.

The 2018 Eagles might not be as good as those of 2017 (at least for now), but Thursday night they looked better than they have been all season. They looked like the team to beat in the NFC East.

And they looked that way for a main reason.

Their franchise interlocutor seems to have found his rhythm.