{"id":9312,"date":"2023-01-20T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/eagles-myles-sanders-focused-on-team-goals-as-free-agency-approaches\/"},"modified":"2023-01-20T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T12:00:00","slug":"eagles-myles-sanders-focused-on-team-goals-as-free-agency-approaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/eagles-myles-sanders-focused-on-team-goals-as-free-agency-approaches\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles&#8217; Myles Sanders focused on team goals as free agency approaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>Myles Sanders focuses on team goals, free agent approach originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Miles Sanders hasn&#8217;t made the playoffs yet, but with a career year and his first Pro Bowl coming to an end, and a new contract coming, this could be a pretty good time.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders ran 14 times for 69 yards as a rookie in the Eagles&#8217; 17-9 wild card loss to the Seahawks (against Josh McCown). He has been dealing with an injury to his ankle in 2019 and had surgery last year to repair a fracture in his hand.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders finally got it all together in his fourth season in the NFL this year. If he shines against his 27th-ranked run defense in the NFL on Saturday, it will go a long way in helping the Eagles advance to his NFC Championship Game.<\/p>\n<p>He said he was dealing with knee pain a few weeks ago and is fine now.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s late in the season, so everyone has scars and bruises,&#8221; Sanders said.  &#8220;But I&#8217;m just trying to do the best I can, keep doing reps, keep my legs moving, and not sit tight.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hadn&#8217;t been on the field for five days at the time of the season when I had my bye last week, so I had to move my legs.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders&#8217; 5.0 career rush average is the fifth highest since he entered the league in 2019, behind Nick Chubb (5.3), Raheem Mostert (5.2), Tony Pollard (5.1) and Jonathan Taylor (5.1).<\/p>\n<p>However, with a 4.0 in the postseason, he ranks 17th among 27 running backs with at least 20 carries in the postseason since 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The next step in Sanders&#8217; career is to put up big numbers in the postseason and help the Eagles win a home playoff game for the first time since the Super Bowl season.<\/p>\n<p><button class=\"link caas-button collapse-button\" aria-label=\"\" title=\"\" data-ylk=\"elm:readmore;slk:Story continues\">story continues<\/button><\/p>\n<p>Sanders focuses on team goals rather than individual goals. But it&#8217;s no secret that the Eagles win when he produces.<\/p>\n<p>The Eagles were 8-0 this year when Sanders rushed for 70+ yards.  Since late 2020, he has won 13 straight games, and overall he is 17-5-1.<\/p>\n<p>When he&#8217;s not, they&#8217;re 6-3 this year and 14-22 overall.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa was truly the lowest point for the entire franchise, but for Sanders, the 2.3 rushing average was arguably the third lowest of his career. I was putting the part on the back burner. He had just three carries after halftime and had none in his last 21\u00bd minutes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not us,&#8221; Sanders said of last year&#8217;s playoff loss. I tried to make it through to the end.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What was the lesson of your miserable day in Tampa?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everything went a little faster,&#8221; he said.  \u201cYou have to think a little faster. It is narrow.\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You have to lock in and lose focus. Then it&#8217;s hard to beat&#8230;.Not just me, the whole team. We didn&#8217;t win 14 games for no reason.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sanders is one of the notable Eagles not to sign a contract after this year, but at 25 he is the second youngest (a few months older than Chauncey Gardner-Johnson) and one of the most interesting players.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s already eighth in Eagles history in rushing, and his 3,708 yards are just 158 \u200b\u200bless than LeSean McCoy had in his first four seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Just like Jason Kells, Fletcher Cox and Brandon Graham, every game could be Sanders&#8217; last in an Eagles uniform.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s just not focused on it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m in a space where I&#8217;ve had some pretty good years[and]it&#8217;s going to come,&#8221; he said. That&#8217;s all there is to it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A win would be a blessing. We have a lot of goals, some off-season. My focus is just on getting ready for today and Saturday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/__i\/rss\/rd\/articles\/CBMiSWh0dHBzOi8vc3BvcnRzLnlhaG9vLmNvbS9lYWdsZXMtbWlsZXMtc2FuZGVycy1mb2N1c2VkLXRlYW0tMTIwMDAwMjkwLmh0bWzSAVFodHRwczovL3Nwb3J0cy55YWhvby5jb20vYW1waHRtbC9lYWdsZXMtbWlsZXMtc2FuZGVycy1mb2N1c2VkLXRlYW0tMTIwMDAwMjkwLmh0bWw?oc=5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Myles Sanders focuses on team goals, free agent approach originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia Miles Sanders hasn&#8217;t made the playoffs yet, but with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-sports","two-columns"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/10dd2ed6d79f2e042a13bbfa54e32d63.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}