PHILADELPHIA -- Safety Malcolm Jenkins raised some questions about the way the Philadelphia Eagles coaching staff holds players accountable.
"The one area on our team that we don't do a good job is really holding guys accountable for what they do on the field," Jenkins said on WIP-94 FM Monday. "We'll talk about it in our specific units, in the defensive back room, D-linemen, O-linemen, whatever. But as a team, we never really hold anybody accountable for what they do on the field.
"Sometimes we get a little too caught up in trying not to point fingers. At the end of the day, there's a job to get done, and I think everybody needs to own whether they're doing their job or not. And I think that makes it hard on leaders to call somebody out or have that voice where you could try to light a fire under somebody, because the coaches are who own that."
Jenkins didn't back off his comments in a press conference Tuesday after practice.
"It's just my own opinion," Jenkins said. "From a coaching style, I was brought up a little bit different, where most mistakes that teammates make or players make are brought up in more of a team setting. The approach here is more in the individual [position meeting] rooms, and it's by design and that's on purpose.
"So a lot of the times when things happen, say on the defensive side of the ball, the secondary isn't playing well, the mistakes aren't pointed out in front of the entire defense. It's dealt with in the DB [defensive back] room. A D-lineman might not know necessarily what the mistakes are or what we need to get better."
Eagles linebacker Connor Barwin said different teams have different methods for addressing problems.
"Everyone's held accountable here," Barwin said. "There's ways to do things. I was in Houston, where [coach Gary] Kubiak, there were a couple of instances where he pulled up the tape and ripped guys in front of the locker room. That hasn't happened here.
"There's different ways to do things. I'm not one to say which one is right and which is wrong."
Jenkins also suggested the Eagles' defensive scheme was predictable when opponents were in the red zone. The Eagles allow touchdowns on 61.8 percent of red zone appearances.
"We are no more or less predictable than anybody else," defensive coordinator Bill Davis said. "There's only a couple things you do down there, and everybody does. You're either bringing everybody [on the blitz] or you're dropping and helping out. We move in and out of different coverages. We show blitz and drop back."
Davis said he wasn't bothered by Jenkins' comments.
"Everybody's entitled to their opinion," Davis said. "I respect all the guys and their opinions. I enjoy getting feedback from all the guys to see how we can make it better."