Just now, Outlaw said:

Having to play a playoff game on Monday night or Saturday is horseshit, whether it’s us or someone else. Everyone should have the same amount of rest other than the bye team who earned it. 

The NFL increased the playoff field and needs to monetize it in as many time slots as possible.  

7 minutes ago, Ace Nova said:

McDermitt is pissed.  Josh Allen has been awesome lately but tonight has 2 picks in the end zone and just threw a pass from Miami’s 11 yard line to the 2 yard line, middle of the field, with no timeouts left and 11 seconds on the clock - receiver gets clocked at the 1 yard line, doesn’t get in and time runs out.  Ouch. 
 

Should be a fun 2nd half to watch. 

He definitely didn’t throw him under the bus when he came off the field. I anticipate Allen coming out of the tunnel with a black eye.  

1 hour ago, ManuManu said:

Lol. This is a terrible LB draft and Howie isn’t changing his philosophy just because. 

I agree that Howie won't change his dumb failed philosophy but I certainly do not agree there's no linebackers. 
The young axe man, Edgerrin Cooper, Jaylan Ford, Junior Colson, Payton Wilson, Tommy Eichenberg to name some. They have two second rounders, there's no reason they can't take one. 
There will be some in free agency as well. 
This defense will never reach the top echelon when it's so disjointed. Linebackers matter. The best two teams in the NFL have some of the best linebackers in the league, it's a damn joke already with Howie's nonsense. 
 

6 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

What were we? 20th in DVOA under Desai? We’re probably bottom three with Patricia against scrubby QBs. 

30th or 31st under Patricia. DVOA is overrated though

 

1 minute ago, ManuManu said:

Monday night playoff games are objectively stupid (except for the boatloads of cash the NFL gets from them).

Brought this up earlier today. It’s stupid. Hypothetically the eagles or tampa pull this out and seeding holds up, eagles/tampa are gonna go to Sf on a short week to face a team that is coming off a bye. Absolutely ridiculously stupid. 

3 minutes ago, Alphagrand said:

Most people before this season thought Brian Johnson was the logical OC choice because of his relationship with Hurts.  Desai was never one of my choices for DC — not even on my radar.

Need an experienced DC next season, with a track record.  I’m not totally convinced BJ doesn’t return — perhaps the change will be at QB coach.

I would consider myself one of those people that though that Johnson was the right choice, however I was worried that the stagnation with an internal hire could be a problem. 

Johnson at OC again would be enough for me to tune out next season. What's likely going to happen is that we're going to overcorrect on defense and offense will take a setback, but maybe that's whats best in the long run. 

13 minutes ago, Sack that QB said:

Plenty of teams win without their coordinators, the Eagles suffer because it turns out the head coaches weren’t that good. Honestly, Lurie has gotten super lucky with his coaching hires. He ended up with two guys who were guys he didn’t originally want and wanted to hire guys who ended up being all time level bad. And the guys he ended up hiring have proven to not be all that special in hindsight. Their last coaching search came down to Josh McDaniels and Sirianni. And credit to them for picking Sirianni, but it would be nice if they do fire him if the next guy is a long term hire.

Yeah, the rate at which were churning HC's is a red flag with Lurie's hiring philosophy. He's going to need to get over handing over things to Chip at some point, we can't continue this way, it's not sustainable. 

When I looked at Siranni's resume, I knew that he was a short term hire, so I'm not that shocked that he's likely on his way out. 

1 minute ago, greendestiny27 said:

I agree that Howie won't change his dumb failed philosophy but I certainly do not agree there's no linebackers. 
The young axe man, Edgerrin Cooper, Jaylan Ford, Junior Colson, Payton Wilson, Tommy Eichenberg to name some. They have two second rounders, there's no reason they can't take one. 
There will be some in free agency as well. 
This defense will never reach the top echelon when it's so disjointed. Linebackers matter. The best two teams in the NFL have some of the best linebackers in the league, it's a damn joke already with Howie's nonsense. 
 

Don't forget Trotter Jr.

Think Carter returned to Clemson.

5 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

Just saying commanders were the only bad team to put it on desai and the eagles defense. Cardinals and giants offense are significantly worse. And commanders put it on the eagles last year with a better defense. I’d argue desai sucks but Matt Patricia is useless, was awful without belichick and they did it in week 15. I agree with McManus. I listened to that interview he said reddick alluded to it last week in the locker room. 

Oh don’t get me wrong, I’ve been done with Patricia ever since he decided ti drop Reddick back into pass coverage 7 times in one game.

Just now, Iggles25 said:

Don't forget Trotter Jr.

Think Carter returned to Clemson.

He's the first one I mentioned 

1 hour ago, UK_EaglesFan89 said:

I know Hurts never says a lot in press conferences. And when things are going well that’s all fine. But at this point his answers are getting on my last nerve! Every week he says we need to be better and more consistent. Yeah no ish Jalen!

Yea. Now imagine how players feel when that’s all they hear from the HC. He’s just parroting what Sirianni says.

 

1 minute ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

Brought this up earlier today. It’s stupid. Hypothetically the eagles or tampa pull this out and seeding holds up, eagles/tampa are gonna go to Sf on a short week to face a team that is coming off a bye. Absolutely ridiculously stupid. 

Somehow the Rams won it all as the 4 seed that 1 year playing the Monday game. But generally it puts you at a ridiculous disadvantage. They really need to do 3 games Saturday, 3 Sunday. 

2 minutes ago, eagle45 said:

The NFL increased the playoff field and needs to monetize it in as many time slots as possible.  

Exactly, but they could have easily just made it 3 games on Saturday and Sunday...11:30, 3:30, 7:30 starts on both days. It's really a move in my mind to prop up SF...

8 minutes ago, bitbased said:

Seems like a lose/lose situation. Things definitely weren't trending in the right direction with Desai playcalling. Stick with him and I doubt the tune changes at all. We'd all just be complaining that they did nothing instead.

Here’s the problem, didn’t do this during the bye week. Like if they would’ve done it during the bye week in week 10 and made that transition then I would kind of get it. They waited until week 15. A month before the playoffs you’re gonna get a new Defensive coordinator calling and doing it based off of desai’s defense as not enough time to implement whatever defense he wanted to. desai/fangio defende is not his specialty. You basically threw everything you’ve done for months out the window and just hoping that that Patricia wasn’t gonna be as awful as he was in Detroit. And he’s been as bad

Just now, greendestiny27 said:

He's the first one I mentioned 

Young Axe Man

Yes sorry

I've drank myself into oblivion tonight

Fin Birds lol

3 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

Brought this up earlier today. It’s stupid. Hypothetically the eagles or tampa pull this out and seeding holds up, eagles/tampa are gonna go to Sf on a short week to face a team that is coming off a bye. Absolutely ridiculously stupid. 

But if the Rams win they go to SF...

1 hour ago, Random Reglar said:

Notice in the dolphins game how the Dolphins have 2 running backs and are running outside.

No

1 hour ago, Arsenal79 said:

What system did we run last year when we had a top offense, Hurts was an MVP candidate and we almost won the Super Bowl?  Why aren't we running that offense?

That likely means we need a new coach to make it work since the guy responsible for that offense left and the head coach can't figure it out.

I'm my opinion I don't think it's Siriannis offense.  I know they call it Sirianni's offense but like you said it's way different than last year.

My guess is he has some input but last 2 years was mostly Steichens offense.  This year its Brian Johnsons offense.  BJ comes from college where he coached and played.  The offense looks like a college offense to be honest.

Wasn't when DP was HC here that he said Reich did most of the play design and game planning and Doug called plays?  

Wouldn't surprise me if BJ is the main architect of the offense because it looks nothing like last year.

However that's on Sirianni for not stepping in and making changes to help the offense.

Offense took a step back this year but it wasn't terrible by any means.

Defense was the real issue this year and it's not even close.  If we had even a middle of the road 15-16th rank Defense we'd probably be a 2 seed at the very least right now.

1 hour ago, metal said:

Not a huge surprise they're suspecting ACL for Sydney

Not that it matters but Blakenship, Byard and literally nothing else. Way to go Howie

2 minutes ago, Ace Nova said:

Oh don’t get me wrong, I’ve been done with Patricia ever since he decided ti drop Reddick back into pass coverage 7 times in one game.

Tumi making the move in week 15 was a panic move that beat you in the ass. Do I think desai is any good? No. But at least I knew with Desai there was a chance he could get better. He showed at the times in the second half of games to make adjustments and get the defense playing better. He’s also much more inexperienced than Patricia so there was always gonna be a learning curve. So maybe those beatdowns he learns something from. Likely? Probably not but more of a chance that happens the. Patricia winds up being good without belichick. You were never going to get that with Matt Patricia. Matt Patricia is what he is and has sucked it was Belichick was holding his Fing hand.

I said this at the time of desai’s firing/demotion, coaching was only part of the problem. Desai wasn’t good. But they had major personnel issues on the back 7. Guys had bigger names then what they currently are. and lack of depth along the DL. Add on firing the DC in week 15 was going to create more problems and that was before they asked Patricia to run a fangio defense. And that goes to the point the eagles have to change their defensive philosophy cause i don’t think fangio defense is good enough especially with the personnel they have on the back 7 and poor DL performance down the stretch  

1 hour ago, Godfather said:

Rest up for next season

He won’t be ready for next season 

So Gilmore's shoulder injury...never had an injury like that but yeh, no thanks. Is it that simple? No recovery time?

"It just popped out and they popped it back in place," Gilmore said postgame. "I feel way better now. Happy it wasn't nothing too crazy."

7 minutes ago, Joe Ball said:

Exactly, but they could have easily just made it 3 games on Saturday and Sunday...11:30, 3:30, 7:30 starts on both days. It's really a move in my mind to prop up SF...

SF already gets a double bye regardless.

6 minutes ago, Joe Ball said:

But if the Rams win they go to SF...

Trust the script!

5 minutes ago, Joe Ball said:

But if the Rams win they go to SF...

Hence why i said if seeding holds up. So Rams would have to actually win. And why i said if seeding holds. Either way eagles/bucs are gonna wind up playing on a short week. Cause they are locked into the late sunday game by playing on Monday