Whoa. I didn’t realize he timed it that well. 

Return specialist too

15 minutes ago, Sack that QB said:

Zach Berman said Sirianni talked trash to ESP after the game.

Deservingly so, I despise ESP. 

Such a low-effort troll journalist who's made a career out of crap takes 

35 minutes ago, Outlaw said:

RTK-level trolling by the Eagles social media team…

Ok. I need this explained to me. 

Just now, paco said:

Ok. I need this explained to me. 

Gotta be a lame Taylor Swift thing

Ugly win tonight but I was very pleased. Sloppy game for the offense but they came out in the 2nd half and made the plays that were needed. I’m not worried about the offense figuring things out. The defense is what I was worried about going into the bye week. But this was an EXCELLENT performance tonight. Are there still things to complain about? Sure. But holding the defending Super Bowl champs to 17 points at home and 0 points in the 2nd half. That deserves some credit. Hopefully they can build off this performance

Just now, Iggles25 said:

Gotta be a lame Taylor Swift thing

Don’t worry chiefs and chiefs fans are gonna have to shake it off. Although might be some bad blood. 

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

Don’t worry chiefs and chiefs fans are gonna have to shake it off. Although might be some bad blood. 

You need to calm down

 

6 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

Whoa. I didn’t realize he timed it that well. 

He might be on to something….but the naysayers will say….

"Time to ban the spike-pick.  It doesn’t look like a football play.” 
 

Just now, hukdonfoniks said:

You need to calm down

 

Karma wasn’t Travis. It was the eagles getting a stop at the end of that game. 

Lol

We're 9-1 and here's the thing: 

• RZ scoring has improved immensely 
• Defense is making game-changing 2nd half adjustments 
• ST's has slowly improved over the course of the season. 
• If Brian Johnson could just call situational football this team would be unstoppable 

 

Just now, Birdman said:

We're 9-1 and here's the thing: 

• RZ scoring has improved immensely 
• Defense is making game-changing 2nd half adjustments 
• ST's has slowly improved over the course of the season. 
• If we could just figure out the offensive play calls this team would be unstoppable 

 

No doubt.  Desai and the defense played a monster game. 

4 minutes ago, Birdman said:

We're 9-1 and here's the thing: 

• RZ scoring has improved immensely 
• Defense is making game-changing 2nd half adjustments 
• ST's has slowly improved over the course of the season. 
• If we could just figure out the offensive play calls this team would be unstoppable 

 

I would add to this, that it felt like for a good portion of the night the Eagles offense was very predictable.

17 minutes ago, just relax said:

So. We beat a really good team with maybe the league’s best defense, in KC , maybe the toughest place to play, against Andy Reid coming out of a bye, and all I’m seeing now is ****ing. Now I remember why I stay out of the Blog during a game.

I’m going to bed.

Happy.

I agree. I was actually very happy. Was it the perfect game? No. But the defense played outstanding football and Hurts rallied the troops. Awesome game

5 minutes ago, Birdman said:

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• If Brian Johnson could just call situational football this team would be unstoppable 

 

Yeah, but if he calls anything but what the situation calls for, defenses won’t know what’s coming *hits pipe*

Just now, paco said:

Yeah, but if he calls anything but what the situation calls for, defenses won’t one what’s coming *hits pipe*

The Wr screens are gonna be the best rope a dope of all time. We are gonna run like 6 of them in a row one game then other team just expects it and bam we throw it to aj down field for a td. 

41 minutes ago, hukdonfoniks said:

Look at this offense as they were last season. 

Then look at the offense this season. 

Drastic difference a year makes, doesn't it?  What changed between last year and this year?  The only difference you have there is that Steichen is out and BJ is in.  Everyone else from last season to this season is in tact. 

And you mean to tell me BJ isn't the variable?

Points per game: last season 29, this season 27 - down 7%

Yards per game: last season 386, this season 363 - down 6%

Giveaways per game: last season 1.0 , this season 1.4 - up 40%

 

I wish Johnson would stop making those turnover play calls. 

Variety is the spice of life.

I think BJ smokes spice before games.

4 hours ago, Texas Eagle said:

Byard is going to make a big play tonight

Nice call.

38 minutes ago, BDawk_ASamuel said:

Statistically from an EPA, points, yards, etc this is the same offense as last year. Think it might actually be higher in some categories. But it still feels boom or bust. Thankfully, more times than not, they hit the big play but when they don’t it gets ugly. This defense drives me mad, but they deserve a lot of credit for keeping them in the game tonight. 
 

In a weird way, they feel like the NFL version of the Phillies. Can’t play small ball at all, but when the long ball gets going it’s glorious. 

Folks forget the offensive struggles against Indy and Arizona last season - teams that picked in the top five of the draft.

We just put up 21 points on a top-5 defense that was averaging 16 points against.

26 minutes ago, paco said:

Ok. I need this explained to me. 

Taylor Swift is doing an 'Eras' tour.

Maybe I’m in denial but I can’t see Jason hanging them up if we don’t win the SB. If we do, I think that’s it for him. Either way he has a lot of good football left. He may be my favorite Philly athlete of all time when it’s all said and done.

Super happy about the win. And I don't want to be a complainer who nitpicks everything. But oh my, there were things tonight that were frustrating as all hell.

Josh Sweat jumping offsides twice. And I swear I saw a third one that wasn't called. And the one where Graham jumped was an absolute gift because he should have been flagged, not the Chiefs center. We all complain about Barnett, but shouldn't some of that anger spill over to Sweat?

I wanted to scream at the end of the first half. We fall behind 14-7. We get the ball back. We lose yardage on first down. The momentum is all with the Chiefs. We're getting the second half kickoff. Just run it out and get to halftime. (Okay, we'd have had to punt with maybe twenty seconds left but the point stands.) Throwing a four yard pass and then running out of bounds was about as moronic as it can get. I'm curious if this was ever questioned during the press conference, which I haven't watched yet. I am guessing not, as everyone is enjoying the win. But I bet it would have been an issue if we had lost since we gifted them three points going into the half. Dammit, I was annoyed.

Those swing passes to the wideouts never work. I'm just tired of them being called, especially on back-to-back plays.

How the hell does that Chiefs receiver get wide open for that bomb that was dropped? The weird thing was, as the ball was being thrown and I saw him open, I was momentarily thankful that after the touchdown, we'd still have about two minutes to score. My fear was them scoring with seconds left in the game, like in the Super Bowl.

How the hell does that Chiefs receiver get open on that 4th and 25 play? A pass like that should never be allowed to hit a receiver's hands virtually uncontested.

Why do we commit roughing the passer calls on final drives of the game for the opposing teams, gifting them a free fifteen yards? That's twice in a row.

Braden Mann had some crappy punts that will probably go unnoticed. Thankfully he rebounded a bit later on. And kudos for the good hold on the slightly off target PAT snap.

I ain't going to bed yet. Gonna bask in the afterglow for a little while yet and catch up on some of the last twenty or thirty pages here.

Carry on.

9-1 feels pretty good. (We did miss Goedert though.) Oh, and it's obvious that Dean is not coming back based on Sirianni's visor.

3 minutes ago, AmericanEagle77 said:

You aren't going to find someone who disagrees on paper in me, I was saying that Nolan Smith specifically probably isn't a great call there because of his lack of overall skillset. I was a big fan of the Super Bowl year where we had Blount, for example.

I'm a big believer in "you can see it in the combine and pro day and high school video".

You do not need to be versatile, at all.  If you can do one thing, and be dominant with it,  all you need to do is do that thing over and over.  Under normal conditions,  first 3 quarters and without a lead,  the ability to run for 3-5 yards reliably isn't such an amazing thing.   But in the NFL,  so very very often,  many decades of NFL history, they have run the ball over and over in the 4th Q with the lead in order to run out the clock.   So extremely normal, its a cliche of sorts that you do this, yet it seems like "what to do" in that so basic a situation.   

PUT BIG PLAYERS IN WHEN YOU'RE LEADING IN THE 4TH QUARTER AND YOU WANT TO RUN OUT THE CLOCK BY RUNNING THE BALL.

VanSumeren was a Michigan Wolverines Fullback for 2 years.  That is a sufficient college running back resume to use him as a Fullback in the 4th Q.  If you can find anyone else bigger, like Nolan Smith or Lane Johnson or Steen, or Jordan Davis Jalen Carter, or anyone else on the roster who weights more than 230,  that would be great too.  Doesn't matter.

But VanSumeren was on the field, made a special teams tackle.  And he played Fullback in college.   The Eagles have 3 ILBs ahead of VanSumeren on the roster,  but no RBs who weigh more than 220.  No big back,  no fullback.  VanSumeren wasn't a starter at Michigan, was behind Ben Mason, but he did run for a TD as a Michigan Fullback.  He's legit a Fullback.  Such a common thing for almost all football, a Fullback,  runs out ahead and blocks some of the time, runs with power at other times.

Michigan Fullback who is 231 and runs 4.45 is what the Eagles are lacking in those 4th Q lead run out the clock situations.  

It's true they don't NEED that.  They didn't have it, but they still won.  The defense came up big. Same thing against Dallas.  Here was 1 3 and out, against Dallas it was 3 3 and outs in the 4th Q.  9-1, great team,  but it's hard not to see 4th Q time killing drives against good team as a weakness.