7 minutes ago, RLC said:

Beat the Cowboys, Dolphins and Chiefs. Those are all top 10 teams in DVOA. All have 7 wins. We were the better team in 2 of those 3 (we weren't tonight). 

You missed the sarcasm.   The point is that 'statement' wins or whatever is irrelevant.   Wins and losses are all that matter.  Eagles have the most wins.   Eagles have beaten teams with lots of wins.   And they are one really badly timed INT from Hurts from being undefeated in the ugliest fashion possible.  9-1... that's all that matters.  Still 2 games up in the division.  2 games up on SF.   Only 1 game up on Detroit, and winning this means that they didn't lose the tiebreaker to Detroit, who had already beaten the Chiefs.  

 

The Brian Johnson piling on needs to stop. Should he be defended after this game? No, but people are acting like he goes rogue and Nick Sirianni just picks his ass on the sidelines and does nothing. If the team is going conservative in the game, Nick Sirianni is going to be okaying that. I know people love Nick and Brian Johnson is the low hanging fruit because he's the newcomer, but this is not all Brian Johnson. The Eagles ran a lot of WR screens last year too, but with a different OC. The constant is the same head coach.

Just now, D-Shiznit said:

We all said that they can't keep winning like this. That the really good teams will make them pay...

We were wrong

No - I am always right 

4 minutes ago, AmericanEagle77 said:

Only reasons we aren't the better team is because of Brian Johnson and because of Bradberry honestly. We had basically no game plan offensively, it felt like. Just utterly horrible.

The game plan was the Wr screen. 

15 minutes ago, Ace Nova said:

Jalen Hurts, "We found a way, not sure how or what to say…”. 
 

Gotta love his honesty. 

he’d be a natural in the blog.

2 minutes ago, Connecticut Eagle said:

Nope.  It was the play calling.  Never has anything to do with what the players do.

Offensive line had a bad night in pass pro but the play calling did not help the situation- at all. 

The score wasn’t what I picked and my bonus things didn’t happen…but the Eagles did win.

A buddy hit me up an hour before the game asked who he should bet on, I don’t gamble much. I told him take the Eagles…I’ve won him about 2k this year.

 

1 minute ago, Ace Nova said:

Our defense kept us in the game and overall, played great - basically got us the win.

- That’s something to feel good about.  
 

Our play calling was abysmal. 
- That’s  something to be concerned about.

 

Now imagine we get great play calling with great execution and our defense comes though like they did tonight?  We would be unstoppable.

-  That’s something to feel great about 

Imagine if the OL decides to block someone and not let Jones and the blitzes take their lunch.

More screens to swift, less to WRs please

6 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

Ive been saying, and Im correct- the Bills will be the thoughest game. We match up well with the chiefs. They had no WRs at all to try to exploit our secondary. The Bills have the weapons to make us suffer. 

This was not the toughest game.

BUT we will be beat SF. We will beat Dallas. If we only have 1 loss in this 7 game stretch, thats incredible.

The Bills defense stinks though, I think Dallas will be the toughest game. The Eagles have nightmares in that building.

2 minutes ago, Parrot Head said:

I think Allen is the king of QB that we will harass all night.

We should beat them soundly.

Purdy actually gets rid of the ball quickly, our kryptonite. Although they’re vulnerable on the interior OL.

F it….we’re winning both.

Im not counting us out because if we can pressure him, he will give us chances. and if its close at the end, he will give us the ball.

But this is the game I have had marked as the worst matchup for us. If he is on, our D has nothing to stop him and those WRs this year.

Yes, we might just go undefeated the rest of the way. If they pull out that Buffalo game, no one should really beat them unless they have a let down game. And I wouldnt blame them for it after running through the gauntlet theyve been in.

Our O-Line stunk and AJ only had 8 yards...

and we still beat KC in KC. 😕

1 minute ago, Ace Nova said:

Offensive line had a bad night in pass pro but the play calling did not help the situation- at all. 

So the successful middle screens to Swift didn't help with the pass rush - at all?

2 minutes ago, judunno said:

Guess I'm the only one that witnessed the OL getting manhandled and missing assignments. Lose in the trenches you lose everywhere else.

No, I agree with this. But I also think there's things you do when this is happening to try and slow down the defensive line. You want to make them think rather than just being able to tee off. And we did very, very little of that successfully. Our screen plays for example, I don't know who draws them up, but they're bad. They should just go look at old AR tape and copy his.

Also, I mentioned this earlier - I thought it was Brett Kollman but it wasn't, thinking on it, it was the guy who does "The QB School" - JT O'sullivan I think. One thing he pointed out is that the Eagles have NO HOT ROUTES in our offense. We literally almost NEVER check into hot reads. It basically doesn't exist in the offense.

Combine those things with a lack of feel for what to call and when, and it's kind of a disaster.

This D held Mahomes to ZERO points in the second half. Well done!

6 minutes ago, AmericanEagle77 said:

Only reasons we aren't the better team is because of Brian Johnson and because of Bradberry honestly. We had basically no game plan offensively, it felt like. Just utterly horrible.

They had a plan... just let Hurts run a draw or sweep whenever things seemed tough.    We need a banged up Hurts so that Johnson doesn't fall into that trap.

What sucks is that we likely lost Milton Williams for the Bills game. 

21 minutes ago, Diehardfan said:

You called it!!! …. Wait

Just now, Iggles_Phan said:

They had a plan... just let Hurts run a draw or sweep whenever things seemed tough.    We need a banged up Hurts so that Johnson doesn't fall into that trap.

So playground football at the NFL level. Doesn't get much worse than that...

13 minutes ago, eagle45 said:

I don’t see how Detroit loses another game.  And I’m not high on Detroit either.   I don’t think they can hang with SF or Dallas at all.  But I’m just not sure how they are going to lose with that schedule (and I bet Dallas is eliminated from the division race by the time they play Detroit and goes out of their way not to help us with HFA).

Detroit will lose at least 2 more. They’re frauds.

Just now, D-Shiznit said:

Our O-Line stunk and AJ only had 8 yards...

and we still beat KC in KC. 😕

The defense did this for us. Who'd have thunk it before tonight. Zero second half points. 

I don't understand how this team keeps winning. I'm thrilled to be wrong every week. I really am. But I can't rationalize what my eyes are seeing. 

Just now, RLC said:

What sucks is that we likely lost Milton Williams for the Bills game. 

Is he concussed?

1 minute ago, Ace Nova said:

Offensive line had a bad night in pass pro but the play calling did not help the situation- at all. 

WRs were running around open but Hurts was running for his life and on his back 5 times. More time and the INT to Brown is a TD instead. OL getting owned changes everything. He tried to back them off with screens. Some worked... some didn't 

Just now, Casey @ Bat said:

Is he concussed?

Yes.