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Source: Philadelphia Daily NewsSept.自存倉 30--DENVER -- It was amazing afterward, how quickly just about every Eagles player and coach got to the subject of their next game Sunday against the Giants.Maybe it's unfair to suggest this was their mindset -- one foot pointed toward the charter flight home, during the 52-20 beating the visitors absorbed at Sports Authority Field -- but there were sequences in the second half that reeked of the throwing-in of towels. This is not how a new regime turns things around.Eagles coach Chip Kelly acknowledged in a couple of spots during his postgame presser that you "get down a little bit" when the other team keeps prancing into the end zone, that "you get worn down in a game like this," against a quarterback who is approaching perfection, the way Peyton Manning is playing right now for the Broncos.But here is the deal, on the final morning of September: We knew going into the season the Eagles' defense wasn't good. Nobody had this game marked as a win on their pocket schedule. Nobody had the Eagles going to the Super Bowl, or even to the playoffs. What fans want from Year 1 of the Kelly era is hope, progress, the sense that things are moving in the right direction. They don't have that right now, from a team that just gave up the most points an Eagles squad has allowed in a game since Nov. 26, 1972. And the most points any Broncos team has ever scored in a game. Note that word, "ever." As in, not in the AFL, NFL, John Elway era, Charley Johnson era. Ever.How do we know this isn't just a franchise settling into long-term hopelessness, the 2012 stretch drive repackaged with a slightly smaller coach and much faster playcalling?"I think I'll be able to answer that question on Tuesday when we come back on the practice field," Kelly said, when asked if he sees progress or growth from his 1-3 team. "If we come out and we're hanging our heads and we're feeling sorry for ourselves, then I'll say we didn't have any progress or growth. But I think we've got to understand that this is a tough-ass league, we've played against some really good teams. If you feel sorry for yourself . . . 90 percent of the people don't care about your problems and 10 percent are glad you have 'em. We gotta go back to work. That's the only thing we know how to do. We're going to go out and work and figure this thing out . . . If they come back to work on Tuesday, then I'll be excited about this group moving forward."So, first-year coach challenges team. But it's kind of a low-bar challenge: Show me a pulse by Tuesday and I'll know the season is salvageable. Also, Kelly went on to mention the Giants and the upcoming game, suggesting that he, too, would like to move past this disaster as quickly and smoothly as possible. Nobody came out and said, "Hey, the division's awful, the Giants are 0-4, and after them we play the Bucs, who also are 0-4. So let's cut our losses and move on." But that surely was implied."I don't think this is, 'Holy smokes, the season's over.' Every week's a season," Kelly said. "We knew this challenge was going to be very difficult coming in, just because of how the Broncos played their first three games," winning them and scoring 42.3 points per game."I'm looking for the guys to be looking forward to the New York Giants and a different attitude and a different approach," quarterback Michael Vick said after another day with pass rushers in his face too soon and receivers he couldn't get the ball to consistently against premini storages coverage. "It took us 3 days to get over our loss to Kansas City -- that shouldn't happen. It should hurt, because we want perfection, but we have to find a way to get our juice back and enthusiasm back and look ahead. We need to understand that we still control our destination."Do they, though? Aren't the Giants going to be just as glad to see the Eagles as vice versa? Getting blown out by a Broncos team that has now won 15 regular-season games in succession, by a quarterback who now has thrown 16 touchdown passes in four games this season, without being intercepted, might not be the end of the world. But the Eagles' defense has allowed 1,787 net yards in four games. Over 16 games, that would be 7,148. The all-time NFL record, set by the Saints last season, is 7,042.It seems reasonable to suggest that if the defense is really this bad, Kelly's offense is never going to really take wing. Too much playing from behind, too much pressure to make every drive a touchdown, too much time standing on the sideline watching slow-reacting safeties try to figure out where the ball went.And then there is the special-teams mess, which none of the principals stuck around to discuss yesterday when reporters were allowed into the locker room. Denver scored on a 105-yard Trindon Holliday kickoff return and the 17-yard return of a blocked Donnie Jones punt. It was the second game in a row the Birds have been badly outplayed in this area, another unwelcome reminder of 2012.The Eagles gained 450 net yards, only 22 fewer than Denver. But after the first drive of the second half, the visitors were never in the game.That was the sequence Kelly targeted afterward, when the Broncos took the second-half kickoff and went 80 yards in 10 plays, never facing third down, as was the case in each of their three third-quarter TD drives. As Kelly noted, the Eagles responded with a drive that bogged down after a single first down, putting the defense right back on the field, and the wheels were off. Manning retired to the bench with 10:52 left to play, having completed 28 of 34 passes for 327 yards and four touchdowns, compiling a 146.0 passer rating.The way the 21-13 first half went, if you squinted you could almost see how the Eagles might get out of here with a close, hey-we-gave-it-a-shot loss, or even, with luck, a win. The Broncos stripped those illusions away with relentless, ruthless precision. Manning completed 15 of 16 passes in the second half, for 158 yards and three TDs."He got hot there in that second half and we couldn't slow him down," Eagles linebacker Connor Barwin said. "I wish I could tell you guys what it was; I think it was a lot of things, it wasn't one thing . . . Our different looks were working in the first half. The guy's good at what he does; he kind of figured a little bit of it out in the third quarter and was able to adjust in the third quarter, make some plays on us."Eagles defensive coordinator Billy Davis was not able to bring significant pressure on Manning, who picked apart a soft zone."We ran into a pretty good buzzsaw today," Davis said. "We only have one way to go. We have to get better. Everything about the defense has to improve. We know exactly where we are and who we are. We've just got to put our head down and put all our focus on the Giants."On Twitter: @LesBowenBlog: ph.ly/EagletarianCopyright: ___ (c)2013 the Philadelphia Daily News Visit the Philadelphia Daily News at .philly.com Distributed by MCT Information Services儲存