PHILADELPHIA – Noted trash talker Brandon Graham had thrown a bit of verbal trash in Terry McLaurin’s direction as the Eagles hosted the Commanders on Thursday night.

“I told him, 2-7 is going to get you, he’s going to get you,” Graham said as he left the locker room after the Eagles tipped Washington to a 26-18 loss in a battle of NFC East heavyweights. “I didn’t know he was going to get him like that.”

The reference to 2-7 is the jersey number worn by Eagles rookie Quinyon Mitchell, and yes, the rookie cornerback got McLaurin, okay. It’s not clear how many Mitchell did versus Jayden Mitchell who didn’t.

Regardless, Mitchell covered McLaurin on 20 of 25 McLaurin routes, according to Next Gen Stats, and the catch the receiver made wasn’t against him. So basically he shut it down.

Daniels, the Commanders’ starting quarterback, looked like a rookie. He never seemed much like McLaurin. The receiver known as “Scary Terry” wasn’t very scary at all, despite coming into the game as the NFL’s third-best receiver with 47 receptions for 711 yards, an average of 15.1 yards per catch and six touchdowns .

In the loss he had one catch for 10 yards. Period. He was attacked only twice and the first time came in the first quarter.

Was that because Mitchell locked him up or because Daniels, who was under the duress of the Eagles passage most of the night, didn’t see him? What?

McLaurin said the Eagles didn’t do anything they didn’t expect.

“The ball just wasn’t coming my way,” he said. “It happens. I can only control what I can and I’m just going to focus on that.

The recipient threw some flowers at Mitchell.

“I think he’s a good corner,” McLaurin said. “He played well, he didn’t play like a rookie.”

Mitchell is not a brash talker. Heck, he doesn’t even like to talk about himself much, so all he had to say about the job he did at McLaurin was, “I feel like we did that defensively, we did a good job with delivered to him and their transgression is only limited. explosives. I feel like we had a great preparation and went out and executed.

Head coach Nick Sirianni didn’t give Mitchell much credit either, calling McLaurin’s job “just good team defense.”

The corner and receiver will meet again on December 22 in Landover, Maryland, for the rematch, so the less said the better, but Mitchell has shut down receivers at the highest level for the first ten games of his career. , probably long enough to make this decision: the Eagles have a bona fide shutdown corner of their own.

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