20 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said:

Why do we need it for Quez?

 

If he's healthy, I think the Eagles want him back. They are higher on him than the fans. 

9 hours ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

What has BB done to innovate in the NFL in the last 5-10 years? Not a lot. He's stuck in a coaching rut, or the game has moved on past him, and the staff hires externally show the BB way is no longer that relevant to the game today. 

The irony is, they had a good GM in house waiting for the big job, but BB wouldn't let go.

Funny seeing the Pats struggling and the dumb ass Chargers thinking he'd be a great hire

44 minutes ago, RLC said:

Being healthy > HFA.

We should IR Goedert. He'd get a minimum of 5 weeks off, and would be back close out the last quarter of the season.

Might also need that roster spot for Quez, Cam or Evans.

HFA is about being healthy too though.  The biggest advantage of HFA is the bye.

That is for this particular team.   This is a team I trust on the road.  Wentz, for instance, even at his best, notoriously struggled with communication at the LOS when it got loud.

It is all about being healthy and going into divisional playoffs with 2 weeks rest is an extreme advantage.

9 hours ago, LeanMeanGM said:

 

 

Really didn't want to see him with a BMX type bike after the Fultz situation

37 minutes ago, UK Eagle said:

What has BB done to innovate in the NFL in the last 5-10 years? Not a lot. He's stuck in a coaching rut, or the game has moved on past him, and the staff hires externally show the BB way is no longer that relevant to the game today. 

The irony is, they had a good GM in house waiting for the big job, but BB wouldn't let go.

Funny seeing the Pats struggling and the dumb ass Chargers thinking he'd be a great hire

This was pretty innovative IMO. You don’t just forget how to coach football, he can still be an improvement and successful in the right place.

38 minutes ago, brkmsn said:

If he's healthy, I think the Eagles want him back. They are higher on him than the fans. 

I hear what you are saying, but remember... after they lost Quez they have since added Julio Jones.   So, they've added a WR to the roster.  Why do they need to activate another WR?  Quez isn't a special teams guy, he's just a #3WR.  But, now they have Julio... who is the #3WR.  That pushes Quez to no higher than #4... where they also have OZ.  They could leave Quez on the IR until they might have a need for another WR if an injury happened to any of the top 3.  Until then, I don't see the rush to take him off IR.  They have bigger roster needs than #3/#4 WR.  

Awesome job by Josh 

 

9 hours ago, Iggles25 said:

Trebek is the Man forever!

Jennings is a cool cat too!

1A. 1B

Hung out at a bar tonight and got my band a gig.

And an invitation to a Texaa Hold'em party.

Are you inviting the blog to the gig? 

I think this is a scheme thing. Too many teams have their corners all packed together.

We’re a bend-but-not-break D that hopes the fastballs up front get home. Dallas gets 400+ yards of offense but only 23 points out of it, and Sean Desai pats himself on the back

14 minutes ago, NCiggles said:

Are you inviting the blog to the gig? 

I want in on the Hold ‘Em 

39 minutes ago, garingovt2000 said:

 

Really didn't want to see him with a BMX type bike after the Fultz situation

I still dont know what the hell to think, but its good to see him arriving home with injuries already saying he was hit by a car and a woman there asking if he is sure hes ok. This can rule out a domestic abuse situation assuming its not his mom. 

As some people on other boards are saying- its plausible, him being so new to the area, that he has streets confused and said the wrong location to police.

1 hour ago, UK Eagle said:

What has BB done to innovate in the NFL in the last 5-10 years? Not a lot. He's stuck in a coaching rut, or the game has moved on past him, and the staff hires externally show the BB way is no longer that relevant to the game today. 

The irony is, they had a good GM in house waiting for the big job, but BB wouldn't let go.

Funny seeing the Pats struggling and the dumb ass Chargers thinking he'd be a great hire

He's still a really good defensive coach, and the Chargers haven't had a good head coach since Marty Schottenheimer.  The problem is, I agree he isn't a good GM anymore and he'll want control over the roster wherever he goes.  

I’m guessing Dean and Goedert go to IR this week (they have until Monday) and Jurgens and Evans come back.

 

13 hours ago, Random Reglar said:

You sound exactly like a butt hurt person.

To you, trying something different if what you tried first doesn't work is asinine.  

Sounds  like you're butt hurt,   but you're just not smart enough to explain why.

I don't think you know what's butt hurt means 😂 What you are witnessing is a disagreement on a totally ridiculous suggestion. Yes... lets line up Nolan Smith and VanSumGuyThat can't even get on the damn field on a HOF TE. Keep your day job bub. 

 

1 minute ago, judunno said:

I don't think you know what's butt hurt means 😂 What you are witnessing is a disagreement on a totally ridiculous suggestion. Yes... lets line up Nolan Smith and VanSumGuyThat can't even get on the damn field on a HOF TE. Keep your day job bub. 

 

That's only 2 though.  If you line up another 3 guys on him... 

 

Just now, judunno said:

I don't think you know what's butt hurt means 😂 What you are witnessing is a disagreement on a totally ridiculous suggestion. Yes... lets line up Nolan Smith and VanSumGuyThat can't even get on the damn field on a HOF TE. Keep your day job bub. 

 

If the starters aren’t working against him don’t you wanna see something that REALLY won’t work? 
 

27 minutes ago, Aerolithe_Lion said:

I think this is a scheme thing. Too many teams have their corners all packed together.

We’re a bend-but-not-break D that hopes the fastballs up front get home. Dallas gets 400+ yards of offense but only 23 points out of it, and Sean Desai pats himself on the back

I'd like to see which quadrant represents the most wins

My issue with the Eagles defensive philosphy -  Clearly whether it's Siri or Howie & Lurie- the Eagles have a philosphy of the bend /dont break defense. It was that way under Gannon, and is still the same, even Jim Schwartz was known for the bend dont break type of Defense.

 

They clearly are playing the analytics game here- moneyball defense so to speak. Where if you dont allow quick easy over the top scores, and make your opponent have to consistently drive the length of the field- you are playing the odds that they opponent cant play mistake free football and do that over and over and over again enough time to out score your offense. 

 

And to an extent they would be correct- you will be fairly successful against 2/3rds of the leagues offenses, until you meet those top teams that are that good on offense, they can overcome the mistakes they make along the way and still score regularly. And lets say it's a tight game late in the 4th, and you are up by 1 or 2 points, but your offense just kicked the ball to the opposing team- now your bend but dont break defense will likely allow the other team to get into position to kick a FG for the win because thats your defense. 

 

We have no change up- no lets create havoc type of pressure defense avail. If the Front 4/5 aren't getting home quickly- and or the QB gets the ball out under 2.5 seconds? we just allow them to matriculate right down the field.  It is what has been so frustrating the whole season. It's why we DONT blow out teams. Because oiur defense keeps the other teams in the game. It's why we haven't been getting many turnovers, because we aren't forcing the issue. 

 

And it is why we will lose on Monday Night, just like we lost the SB... because our bend dont break style of defense will allow them to go up and down the field and the creativity of Mahommes and Reid will finish the drives. 

 

40 minutes ago, Aerolithe_Lion said:

I think this is a scheme thing. Too many teams have their corners all packed together.

We’re a bend-but-not-break D that hopes the fastballs up front get home. Dallas gets 400+ yards of offense but only 23 points out of it, and Sean Desai pats himself on the back

Maybe it is a scheme thing but I struggle to believe that Desai wants the secondary to lose coverage that quickly and all I know is if we had some of those guys towards the right rather than where our guys are, then our defense would be an absolute game wrecker because the pass rush would have all day to get home rather than the 1.8 seconds they traditionally have now.

7 minutes ago, Ipiggles said:

And it is why we will lose on Monday Night, just like we lost the SB... because our bend dont break style of defense will allow them to go up and down the field and the creativity of Mahommes and Reid will finish the drives. 

We could play aggressive-man coverage and still lose. Mahomes at home off a bye is not an indictment of the defense.

11 hours ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

 

That'd be a bad choice IMO

 

2 hours ago, RLC said:

Being healthy > HFA.

We should IR Goedert. He'd get a minimum of 5 weeks off, and would be back close out the last quarter of the season.

Might also need that roster spot for Quez, Cam or Evans.

Also worth noting that the Eagles were 5-0 last year without Goedert. 

51 minutes ago, Next_Up said:

I'd like to see which quadrant represents the most wins

In most cases these type of charts have the positive/best in the upper right quadrant (right and up being positive, left and down being negative. I've been seeing a few of these recently and can't really say with confidence I understand them.

This particular chart especially. Look at the Jets, they have three of the top performers in the far upper right indicating they are the best at what this chart represents, the Broncos have two in the upper right...if this chart (graph quadrant) follows the same logic as most, indicates to me that the Jets and Broncos have really underperformed offensively, which they have...so it makes sense. That would also indicate to me that no matter where a teams CBs are in the chart it doesn't mean squat when it comes to wins.

Some teams can overcome deficiencies in one area with steady and above average play elsewhere on the field. The Eagles in my opinion are steady on the offensive side of the ball, incredible on the Defensive front, which in turn protects their deficiency in the secondary.

But again, i do not fully understand how these graph quadrants are built, any of them. What metrics are being used?

14 minutes ago, Mike030270 said:

That'd be a bad choice IMO

Buffalo is on it's way to cap hell so he isn't going there either IMO as others have speculated...they have a lot of work to do next year regarding salary cap.