Can the Eagles just skip the final week of preseason?  Like just not show up?  What's the worst that could happen?  The last preseason game is a brutal affair, and at this point, the team looks ready.  The only important thing that can happen from here on out is some sort of major injury. 

Bring on the Texans...

Five big thoughts on the game:

1. Four games in and our secondary looks very, very shaky.  What happened to these guys?  Dawkins is still everywhere, but the rest of them continue to struggle with the trickier zone coverage schemes.  Brown and Sheppard have been on the same side of the field in the nickel a lot, and it just doesn't seem to be working.  Is Lito fully recovered from his injury? 
   
   Lewis is also still getting to his coverages too late.  On one play we had a DB who lined up over the slot receiver and then blitzed.  Lewis was supposed to slide in from his deep safety position for the coverage on what clearly is going to be the hot receiver.  He was way, way late and the Steelers completed the easy pass for a first down.  On another play, he was lined up tight to the line of scrimmage, but then had to bail backwards to cover a receiver in the middle of the field.  He saw it late and wasn't even close.  Only a bad pass kept it from being a big completion.
   
   We would have chewed out guys who made plays that bad on our flag football team.

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