Eagles' Dom DiSandro barred from sideline in Dallas

Eagles head of security Dom DiSandro is being barred from being on Philadelphia's sideline for Sunday night's game against the Dallas Cowboys for his part in last Sunday's sideline scuffle with San Francisco 49ers linebacker Dre Greenlaw, Adam Schefter of ESPN reports.  This according to league sources.

DiSandro is allowed to go to Dallas with the Eagles and do all his regular duties, but will not be on the sideline.

DiSandro and other Eagles officials met Friday with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell at the league office in New York, sources said. The league still is reviewing additional material to see if further discipline is warranted.

The NFL sent a memo to all teams Wednesday afternoon reminding them to "please ensure that all members of your game-day staff understand that their role does not extend to being involved with game day altercations and that they must refrain from such involvement."

Greenlaw said Wednesday that he and DiSandro exchanged apologies via intermediaries.

"We just exchanged a formal apology just between me and [Niners general manager John Lynch] and some of the same people that we do know that in the building and stuff like that," Greenlaw said. "He seemed like a genuine guy. Seemed like a guy that everybody loved in the building. So, I hate that, honestly. I really hate that it even escalated and went to that."

54 minutes ago, Sack that QB said:

Mac Jones looked like a good QB in week 1 against the Eagles and that was back when everyone was healthy. Let's be real, this defense has been awful all season except for that Miami game. The Bears held Washington to 20 points, they put up 31 points twice against the Eagles. The Giants held Washington to 7 points. Every week on red zone I see teams out there who provide greater resistance than the Eagles on defense, teams who have very little to play for and don't have a whole lot of talent.

I agree having weaknesses at these positions is going to hurt the defense, but again, there's a difference between struggling and being the worst in the entire NFL in several defensive categories. That isn't acceptable. I don't think asking for the defense to not be the worst on several fronts is asking too much.

They’ve also faced 4 top 5 offenses in the span of 6 weeks. Might have something to do with it.

 I also saw the bears defense give up 41 to a mediocre chiefs offense. So we’re gonna cherry picked up the Bears held Washington to 20 but casually ignore the chiefs offense putting up 41 and broncos getting 31 points when they are averaging 22.9 and 21.9 ppg? 

Let’s go through 2022 vs. 2023:

2022 LB: white and Edwards

2023: Cunningham, morrow, Dean, ellis

Outcome: significant downgrade. Those two guys were above average. Right now you are looking at below average unless Leonard returns to form or close to it  

2022 Slot corner: maddox/CJGJ (majority of the year)

2023: maddox for quarter of season, Scott, Roby, bradberry, Ricks

outcome: downgrade. Maddox and CJGJ are light years better then what we got out of that position since maddox got hurt 

2022 safety: Epps, CJGJ and Blankenship (backup)

2023: Blankenship (starter), half season byard, half season evans/edmunds, brown 

outcome: that is a bigger downgrade than people think because you had three safeties on that team that were good starters. CJGJ was better than byard. And Blankenship as a backup was better than brown (rookie needs time) 

2022 starting corners: slay and bradberry 

2023 starting corners: slay and bradberry 

outcome: bradberry isn’t playing nearly the level as last year. Both aren’t as good as last year 

2022 DT: hargrave, Davis, Cox, suh (half a year), Joseph (half a year) Williams 

2023 DT: Carter, Williams, Cox and Davis 

outcome: as good as Carter has been, we miss what Suh and joseph brought. I don’t think multiple Williams has been as good as he was down the stretch last year. Hargrave at this stage of his career is better than Carter. And that’s not a slight on Carter at all. Hargrave  pro bowler last year and probably be the best year in his entire career. Davis has played well this year (argue much better earlier in the year) but i don’t think Williams so far has played as well as he did down the stretch last year 

2022 pass rusher: sweat, graham, reddick and Quinn 

2023: reddick, sweat, graham and before he got cut Barnett 

outcome: more snaps for reddick and sweat so worn down more. Graham still solid but had a much better year last year. I’d argue it’s either a push or they aren’t as good as last year

so I can make the argument about why there’s been a stark difference between 2022 and 2023 as at almost every position group can argue they downgraded (to what level the argument can be made) and they have a new DC on top of all that. Gannon in year two was given a full cupboard and had more experience his second year. Add on the Eagles last year didn’t play remotely as hard of a schedule as they are this year. So they were always going to have some regression because of that.

 if you wanna tell me, they have to be way better than what they been and they shouldn’t be at the bottom, I would agree. That’s ridiculous and it falls on desai, players and howie. but to say  I can’t believe the stark difference from 2022 to 2023 they’ve essentially downgrade (again to what degree) at almost every position group and have a new DC with a much tougher schedule. 

3 hours ago, LeanMeanGM said:

 

New rallying cry... "Do it for Dom!"

 

Given the surprise news that Dom is out for Sunday, I’m not sure what options Eagles have to replace him. I wonder if they elevate Julian from the practice owners box later today. 

10-3 incoming

52 minutes ago, EagleJoe8 said:

Well that's a relief to know. I was worried the defense wouldn't get better.

I love how just making adjustments that’s gonna be the solution to all the eagles woes and fixing everything. You know what Dallas is thinking right now, why are we going to attack James Bradberry and slay on the outside when the eagles best linebacker has a hammy issue, morrow just got torched by the niners and Leonard hasn’t been there but for a couple days and Roby in the slot can’t cover lamb at this stage of his career. They’ll take their chances with the size mismatch with Ferguson on byard if that’s the route we want to go with Ferguson. Ferguson who was very good in the first matchup 

So what adjustment are you gonna make? They sent 5 or rushers last week against a weaker 49ers offensive line. Purdy was 10-11 for 238 yards and 3 tds and 9.4 yards per pass attempt. Mainly attacking morrow. So against a better oline in Dallas that’s the solution? Not sure that works and Dak has been pretty good against the blitz. Have slay follow lamb everywhere? So when they lineup Roby or jobe on cooks (who has been better lately) that’s a mismatch for them. And who says slay can shutdown lamb anyway. If you have Maddox that makes a world of difference as you have guys to potentially cover lamb inside and guys on the outside. Missing that personnel is a massive issue 

adjustments only goes so far. If you have multiple weaknesses on your defense, the good OC/offenses are going to still find it and exploit it when you make adjustments to try covering it up. Solak and sheil have discussed all season the adjustments and things desai has tried. The problem is you don’t have an adjustment to just make players become better than what they are vs. better offenses that teams exploit those players. Against better offenses (and bienemy against the eagles in his career as OC has torched us) this is like the leaking hole in the wall. Cover up one and another hole begins to leak and becomes a problem. So we can keep adjusting to cover it up but too many holes to cover up and the reality is you don’t have the personnel to fix the bigger problem right now and good offenses figure it out and still burn you 

This defense was definitely downgraded from a personell and talent standpoint. What also hasn’t helped is the injuries on the back end from the get go. There was no way to get any type of coherency among the new players on the field. Even with all the sacks last year, our defense wasn’t some type of juggernaut either. We have regressed and it shows in the stats and also from an eye test standpoint. 
 

The first two series last Sunday were a dominant effort by the defense and a welcome surprise. So far this season those two were the best from an aggressive standpoint IMO. After the first 1st down by the 9ers they went back into their shell of getting beat up. Some of that is probably due to fatigue, but it’s also been there the entire year. They don’t make enough plays. It seems that we dodge bullets because other teams just miss opportunities that are there to be made and not due to something that our player does….

Very frustrating, but the cards we have been dealt this year from a defensive perspective.

What makes anyone think Slay can somehow shut down Lamb by following him all over?! No one on this team could shut him down. Other defenses haven’t done it either all year and I’m pretty sure some of the players covering him were better than Darius "don’t wanna lose any teeth” Slay.

4 minutes ago, Frankfurteagle89 said:

This defense was definitely downgraded from a personell and talent standpoint. What also hasn’t helped is the injuries on the back end from the get go. There was no way to get any type of coherency among the new players on the field. Even with all the sacks last year, our defense wasn’t some type of juggernaut either. We have regressed and it shows in the stats and also from an eye test standpoint. 
 

The first two series last Sunday were a dominant effort by the defense and a welcome surprise. So far this season those two were the best from an aggressive standpoint IMO. After the first 1st down by the 9ers they went back into their shell of getting beat up. Some of that is probably due to fatigue, but it’s also been there the entire year. They don’t make enough plays. It seems that we dodge bullets because other teams just miss opportunities that are there to be made and not due to something that our player does….

Very frustrating, but the cards we have been dealt this year from a defensive perspective.

The coherency of the secondary goes back to some injuries to guys. But at safety this goes back to what I said in the preseason, the Eagles needed to go out and get a Fing safety to play with Reed Blankenship at that time. That Edmunds wasn’t very good. Evans never stays healthy. Asking Brown as a 3rd round rookie on a SB contender to just be ready to go was like playing with fire. All those things were said then. So when you finally get the safety it’s week 8 and you are heading into the toughest part of your schedule. A bye week helps but isn’t enough time to get everyone on the same page and coherent with one another when byard wasn’t here all offseason, preseason and first 7 weeks. If you do that trade middle of preseason have those weeks and 13 weeks together. I’m guessing might have some more coherency and less communication issue. 

6 minutes ago, Frankfurteagle89 said:

What makes anyone think Slay can somehow shut down Lamb by following him all over?! No one on this team could shut him down. Other defenses haven’t done it either all year and I’m pretty sure some of the players covering him were better than Darius "don’t wanna lose any teeth” Slay.

It’ll be a shame, but the end of Slay’s time here isn’t going to go well and he probably won’t be remembered favorably. He got into it with Joyner on social media, his play has declined and will probably only get worse, and they probably kept him a year too late. He’s not very accountable either. I get it’s a part of society now, but the social media stuff gets tiring. 

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

The coherency of the secondary goes back to some injuries to guys. But at safety this goes back to what I said in the preseason, the Eagles needed to go out and get a Fing safety to play with Reed Blankenship at that time. That Edmunds wasn’t very good. Evans never stays healthy. Asking Brown as a 3rd round rookie on a SB contender to just be ready to go was like playing with fire. All those things were said then. So when you finally get the safety it’s week 8 and you are heading into the toughest part of your schedule. A bye week helps but isn’t enough time to get everyone on the same page and coherent with one another when byard wasn’t here all offseason, preseason and first 7 weeks. If you do that trade middle of preseason have those weeks and 13 weeks together. I’m guessing might have some more coherency and less communication issue. 

Agreed! But I don’t think Byard makes a world of difference even with more time. He looks slow and past his good years. That’s also an issue with this defense: they are too old at positions where speed is an important factor (it’s not all speed, but a slow CB / Safety has basic limitations that are needed).

Howie paid guys that are old and slow…again

cant play defense that way

6 minutes ago, Frankfurteagle89 said:

What makes anyone think Slay can somehow shut down Lamb by following him all over?! No one on this team could shut him down. Other defenses haven’t done it either all year and I’m pretty sure some of the players covering him were better than Darius "don’t wanna lose any teeth” Slay.

Why i said adjustments only go so far. Not having maddox is a problem.  he’s not gonna stop lamb either. But at least it gives you another competent corner out there to try to have more success. The issue with slay is he still not gonna be able to cover CeeDee Lamb. CeeDee Lamb is better than anybody the Eagles to throw on him. And if you do have slay with lamb, that means Cooks is getting a mismatch and you haven’t accounted for pollard or Ferguson yet either 

2 minutes ago, BDawk_ASamuel said:

It’ll be a shame, but the end of Slay’s time here isn’t going to go well and he probably won’t be remembered favorably. He got into it with Joyner on social media, his play has declined and will probably only get worse, and they probably kept him a year too late. He’s not very accountable either. I get it’s a part of society now, but the social media stuff gets tiring. 

Good points! His statements come off the wrong way and he is doing himself no favors with some of these rants. 

 

 

57 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said:

New rallying cry... "Do it for Dom!"

 

Time for the Eagles to DOMinate. 

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

Why i said adjustments only go so far. Not having maddox is a problem.  he’s not gonna stop lamb either. But at least it gives you another competent corner out there to try to have more success. The issue with slay is he still not gonna be able to cover CeeDee Lamb. CeeDee Lamb is better than anybody the Eagles to throw on him. And if you do have slay with lamb, that means Cooks is getting a mismatch and you haven’t accounted for pollard or Ferguson yet either 

Yup, that’s a good view. Our defense would honestly have problems if we were totally healthy, but with it being the way it is now, we are horrendous and in some important categories in last place. It’s not going to get much better. Just have to hope the offense gets its act together to protect this defense.

3 minutes ago, Frankfurteagle89 said:

Agreed! But I don’t think Byard makes a world of difference even with more time. He looks slow and past his good years. That’s also an issue with this defense: they are too old at positions where speed is an important factor (it’s not all speed, but a slow CB / Safety has basic limitations that are needed).

I’d say slow at Lb too. I think byard might be a little bit better. The communication likely would be better. Unfortunately byard isn’t playing like 2021 or 2022. He’s 30 and there’s a chance he’s on the decline. Maybe just a down year and bounces back next year but can’t rule out he is just on the decline.

2 minutes ago, ToastJenkins said:

Howie paid guys that are old and slow…again

cant play defense that way

They really need to hope brown develops and hits next year. Stuck with the same corners due to contracts. Linebacker they need to upgrade. Probably bring in a good FA and draft one in the first four rounds to compete with Dean. Another issue is we lack playmakers on the backend. Slay can be that at times. He’s not the same playmaker as when he was younger. Blankenship might be the best. CJGJ had his own set of problems but he did know how to come down with the ball and get us extra possessions. We miss having that guy.

The offense just has to pick up for the defense. It’s that basic. They don’t have the talent on defense at linebacker and the secondary to consistently stop good offenses. Leonard doesn’t solve their problems on defense. The line can’t contain and finish sacks and the secondary can’t cover for more than a second. That problem doesn’t magically get solved this year, we’ll have to wait for the offseason. 
 

But they have the horses on offense to produce better in the first half of these games, which we haven’t seen for over a month now. It’s inexcusable for how they’ve been getting off to these slow starts. The Hurts come from behind numbers are impressive, but Dallas will bury them at home if they get up to a two possession lead in the first half. 

15 minutes ago, BDawk_ASamuel said:

It’ll be a shame, but the end of Slay’s time here isn’t going to go well and he probably won’t be remembered favorably. He got into it with Joyner on social media, his play has declined and will probably only get worse, and they probably kept him a year too late. He’s not very accountable either. I get it’s a part of society now, but the social media stuff gets tiring. 

Not saying right or wrong, but if the eagles D gets destroyed again he is setting himself up to get absolutely destroyed on Twitter. Because of the Eagles go into Dallas, and he doesn’t play well, you know everybody on Twitter is going to sit there and say maybe if you weren’t focus on Fing Seth Joyner and what the task at hand, you would’ve been more prepared and better focused. And you know that’s gonna happen if the worst case scenario plays out because that’s what happens on social media.

54 minutes ago, xxeaglesfanxx said:

10-3 incoming

What a terrible record. 

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

Not saying right or wrong, but if the eagles D gets destroyed again he is setting himself up to get absolutely destroyed on Twitter. Because of the Eagles go into Dallas, and he doesn’t play well, you know everybody on Twitter is going to sit there and say maybe if you weren’t focus on Fing Seth Joyner and what the task at hand, you would’ve been more prepared and better focused. And you know that’s gonna happen if the worst case scenario plays out because that’s what happens on social media.

Conversely, a W and a pick from Slay is all it takes and he can spit as much mad crap as he feels like.  Talk is cheap. f'ing do something. 

From a quality standpoint I know it’s not saying a lot, but I’m glad that Cunningham is returning this week and hopefully he can go fully with the hamstring issue. He is been our best tackling LB out there IMO and pretty decent in stopping the run. Of course he is a liability in coverage, but which LB isn’t on this team. 🙈

Any word on Leonard’s availability tomorrow?

5 minutes ago, BDawk_ASamuel said:

The offense just has to pick up for the defense. It’s that basic. They don’t have the talent on defense at linebacker and the secondary to consistently stop good offenses. Leonard doesn’t solve their problems on defense. The line can’t contain and finish sacks and the secondary can’t cover for more than a second. That problem doesn’t magically get solved this year, we’ll have to wait for the offseason. 
 

But they have the horses on offense to produce better in the first half of these games, which we haven’t seen for over a month now. It’s inexcusable for how they’ve been getting off to these slow starts. The Hurts come from behind numbers are impressive, but Dallas will bury them at home if they get up to a two possession lead in the first half. 

I really hope the Eagles go out there and win a Super Bowl this year. I’m not gonna stop cheering them on to do that. They have a  chance cause of what we saw last year and maybe they get back to that. But my  view is that we are in week 14 which is 75% of the season gone, and still waiting for this team to put together a complete game. The Eagles are running out of time to put that all together. we don’t have the personnel on defense ( that is an off-season fix) to fix the issues on that side.  Just hoping they can get enough stops. the offense every week either has turnover issue, they can’t find consistency or effectiveness in the running game or the passing game is inconsistent for quarters or halves. Add on situational coaching at times has been poor. Got 5 games to put together a complete game and get yourself ready for the playoffs. If we are still talking about these things by end of week 18 i don’t have as much confidence they finally put it all together and play a complete game in the playoffs. At that point it’s more you are what you’ve been for 18 weeks