Quick Slants: Will Eagles' defense keep improving?

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The Eagles' defense was nothing to write home about. The corners were being criticized left and right. The linebackers were banged up. They couldn't get pressure on the quarterback.

Then they shut out the Giants.

Suddenly, the Eagles' defense seems prepared to continue making major strides going into Sunday's game against the Cardinals.

On Wednesday's edition of Quick Slants, CSN's Derrick Gunn and Reuben Frank debated which defense will show up Sunday: the one that shut out the Giants to the tune of eight sacks and a fumble recovery, or the one that gave up 26 or more points in the four games before that.

Frank, for one, was skeptical.

"You can't even talk about yourself as being an elite defense or a great defense until you do it week in and week out," Frank said, "and they have not done that yet against good teams."

Gunn was also cautious about heaping praise, pointing out that the Cardinals' offense has turned the ball over just four times (tied for third-fewest in the league).

"Carson Palmer has a good array of weapons," he said. "There's no one player in that arsenal that really scares you, but they do the little things well."

Palmer himself should pose a challenge for the Eagles' defense. As Gunn pointed out, the Cardinals have averaged 365 total yards in games Palmer has played and only 273 yards in games he hasn't.

For the full discussion, see the video above.

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