I’m gonna put a little shade on Howie…if we are going to force WR screens, then go out and get a #3 WR to run them.

Quez has speed, but no quickness and no ability to shed tackles.  Devonta is great, but he’s a route runner, not someone who makes things happen underneath.  Not to mention, he’ll break in half on one of those.

Need a little guy that has deep speed to keep the dbs off him but the quickness to gobble up the easy yards and make people miss.

Devonta getting his roses. He deserves it. Good to see 

2 minutes ago, Joe Ball said:

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.

I was really tempted to take them on the moneyline when I placed my bet 2 days ago. But it wasnt that much different than taking them with the points. So I pussied out and played it safe. Still a win though. I knew theyd win.

5 minutes ago, TEW said:

The scoreboard says otherwise.  

Flippant response, I know, and I get what you’re saying, but in all seriousness I think people put way too little importance on mistakes.

If you make mistakes in key moments, like drops and turnovers in the red zone, and it costs you the game, you didn’t actually outplay the opposition.

Mahomes under throwing a ball in the end zone which leads to an INT is very poor performance. Ertz allowing a defender to punch the ball out of his hands in the red zone is poor performance. Dropping a ball on the end zone for the would be game winning TD is poor play.

We outplayed them, regardless of the meaningless yard differential,

There's only one differential that really matters... and there's one that's very close to that.

The only one that really matters is the scoreboard.   The other one is the turnover battle.   Eagles won both of those tonight.  

Just now, Sack that QB said:

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.

Less problem on 2nd and 22 and 3rd and 22 going conservative. I figured that was coming. I’d still love to get aj brown the ball in that situation. My bigger issue is running these wide receiver screens that weren’t working and swift was great tonight.

My other issue when they got sacked on first down at the end of the half. At that point you’re not going down and scoring. Rain coming down and the pass offense looks bad. Waste the Chiefs timeout on 2nd down and then waste the clock on 3rd down so that they don’t get a field goal. We gave the Chiefs 3 points just by not knowing the situation.

Love love Devonta. I hope.he retires.as an eagle. What a character 

1 minute ago, Blazehound said:

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

I agree they are frauds and I don’t think they get through the divisional playoffs.  

Why do they ask offensive players about the defense. They have zero idea about the defense

1 minute ago, judunno said:

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

I agree but sooner or later you need to adjust to the blitz - extra blockers, more RB screen plays, 2 TE sets, quick slants,  more running plays, etc.  That’s how you beat blitzes.  
 

What you don’t do is run 4 WR screen plays in a row or keep dropping your QB back with only 5-6 blockers. 

1 minute ago, Casey @ Bat said:

You called it!!! …. Wait

OUtcLaSsED!!11!!

😂

You see that Mann-ly punt near the end there?

So glad our punter is not a friggn loser.

1 minute ago, eagle45 said:

I’m gonna put a little shade on Howie…if we are going to force WR screens, then go out and get a #3 WR to run them.

Quez has speed, but no quickness and no ability to shed tackles.  Devonta is great, but he’s a route runner, not someone who makes things happen underneath.  Not to mention, he’ll break in half on one of those.

Need a little guy that has deep speed to keep the dbs off him but the quickness to gobble up the easy yards and make people miss.

Other teams have success on those with all types of WRs. Theres not necessarily a right type of WR to run them with. We just dont execute them. 

Just now, eagle45 said:

I’m gonna put a little shade on Howie…if we are going to force WR screens, then go out and get a #3 WR to run them.

Quez has speed, but no quickness and no ability to shed tackles.  Devonta is great, but he’s a route runner, not someone who makes things happen underneath.  Not to mention, he’ll break in half on one of those.

Need a little guy that has deep speed to keep the dbs off him but the quickness to gobble up the easy yards and make people miss.

Literally Swift. Just use Swift. People forget but he lined up out wide for the Lions a LOT one of those seasons, he has the skillset to do it. You just need to run 2RB enough to make people actually respect the inside RB when Swift is wide. Which, hey, with Goedert out, it's a fantastic time to do it.

1 minute ago, AmericanEagle77 said:

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.

They did some RB screens. Some worked..one turned into a sack. At some point the OL has to put on their big boy pants and stop getting owned so that the QB can actually get the ball down field.

4 minutes ago, Connecticut Eagle said:

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

Those were great.  They should have kept feeding Swift. 

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

Less problem on 2nd and 22 and 3rd and 22 going conservative. I figured that was coming. I’d still love to get aj brown the ball in that situation. My bigger issue is running these wide receiver screens that weren’t working and swift was great tonight.

My other issue when they got sacked on first down at the end of the half. At that point you’re not going down and scoring. Rain coming down and the pass offense looks bad. Waste the Chiefs timeout on 2nd down and then waste the clock on 3rd down so that they don’t get a field goal. We gave the Chiefs 3 points just by not knowing the situation.

Situational coaching issues to me always fall on the head coach. It's his operation.

Just now, AmericanEagle77 said:

Literally Swift. Just use Swift. People forget but he lined up out wide for the Lions a LOT one of those seasons, he has the skillset to do it. You just need to run 2RB enough to make people actually respect the inside RB when Swift is wide. Which, hey, with Goedert out, it's a fantastic time to do it.

I think they’ve got to do a lot more to get him involved in the pass game. We’ve been saying that since the start of the year and it felt like they did more tonight.

 

 

Just now, HazletonEagle said:

Other teams have success on those with all types of WRs. Theres not necessarily a right type of WR to run them with. We just dont execute them. 

There’s not one type, but Devonta definitely isn’t any type for it.

We don’t execute RB screens all that well either, to be fair.

TE is where we have the most success.

2 minutes ago, eagle45 said:

I agree they are frauds and I don’t think they get through the divisional playoffs.  

I think the Vikings take at least one game from the Lions.  And the Lions likely drop another one... just because winning is tough in the NFL. 

I would like to see a BIG RUNNING BACK in those situations,  like today,  that all you want to do is get 3-5 yards running in bounds. 

I've mentioned before that Nolan Smith who almost never plays yet was a 1st round pick was a running back in hs (all he needs to be retaught is run between the tackles) and has that amazing size and amazing speed.

I'm watching Keaton Mitchell of the Ravens make big play after big play,  because he's fast.  Nolan Smith is just as fast,  and he's 50 pounds heavier.   Also Ben VanSumeren.   Also a long list of Eagles who weight more than 230 pounds.  I don't care who,  in the current context of passing, which means smaller faster linebackers, not 260 pound ILBs, the Eagles should be able to find a heavy player who can run for 3-5 yards. 

Different players when preserving leads in the 4th Q with the run.

The Eagles might consider taking the STARS OFF the field in the 4th Q.  The Eagles are one of the most starter heavy teams in the NFL.  Brown and Smith play almost every down. They're great players,  and, look,  another win,  9-1, best in the NFL,  but maybe the Eagles might want to not wear them out,  because playoffs.  

The Eagles probably don't want to spend all their time doing different run things,  they already innovated the shove.

It seems to me that it would be fun and functional if some OL carries the ball,  or a DL comes in and carries the ball.  I mentioned Nolan Smith and VanSumeren.  Anybody who weighs more than 230 pounds.  

Does anybody remember the Cowboys game?  It was also a win.  The Eagles went 3 and out 3 times in a row.  In those games,  you kinda wished that Swift was bigger,  he had a lot of 2 yard carries.   And today,  too,  a negative 2 and a 2.

Put in the BIG players when you are leading in the 4 Q,  especially when you're leading with 5 minutes to go.  Leading with 5 minutes to go should not be a rare situation for a 9-1 team.  They should be prepared for that eventuality.  Big players. run. Use all 40 seconds.  Find a different guy on the team who can run with power between the tackles,  forward.   Not a 210 pound RB.  Jalen Hurts is quite acceptable. But the others are not. Not in that context.  They're good in those "are they going to run or pass" contexts, which are most contexts.  But you really should have the big back to hand it to over and over.

The Eagles have perfected the shove.  It works almost every time,  as well as a great kicker.  The Eagles should work to perfect the "run for 3-5 yards very reliably" thing,  where you remove wide receivers,  saving wear and tear on the stars. 

17 minutes ago, Connecticut Eagle said:

I was very happy with Desai tonight.

He did a great job of taking away Mahomes' first read.  It was only when he extended plays that damage was done.

It’s unbelievable how hard it is to sack him. The pass rush was really good tonight. 

2 minutes ago, judunno said:

They did some RB screens. Some worked..one turned into a sack. At some point the OL has to put on their big boy pants and stop getting owned so that the QB can actually get the ball down field.

Oh no, I agree that they did. I was more saying that their designs seem to be pretty bad since the success rate of our screens in general this year is...not great. Makes me think we should swipe some designs.

1 minute ago, Sack that QB said:

Situational coaching issues to me always fall on the head coach. It's his operation.

I don’t care who it’s on. Your head coach and your offensice coordinator should be working together to figure that crap out. That is on both of them if you want to call it. Both of them should’ve been like you know what we’re not gonna score. let’s go into halftime regroup as we are down just 1 score. 

I’m still relatively new and this is the first game I’ve really engaged in the blog during the game. You guys are a blast. I can’t wait to watch the game with y’all Dec 10. 
 

Congrats on a statement win. Ugly, but there are no pictures in the standings. Enjoy it!