I'll actually agree with AJ.  The main worries are lack of creativity/flexibility in the offensive game planning and play calling.  Our offense has been easy to defend against San Fran and Dallas.  Limited movement, underneath junk on 3rd and long against fast/good tackling back 7s, and why bother guarding anybody other than Smith, Goedert and Brown?  Johnson is getting schooled schematically by the better defenses. 

Nolan Smith needs more snaps 

Just now, LeanMeanGM said:

Call it a fluke but ball security played a big part in losing the SB. I just have no idea what the hell AJ even means here. The coaches stress about it all the time. Seems to be a real disconnect with coaching and players.

 

Nope.  Not a fluke.  Fumbling has been an issue the whole time.

 

As for AJ... he's not willing to be accountable, so he acknowledges what has to be acknowledged, while trying to shift blame elsewhere as quick as possible.  He's not a leader.

Ball security has been an issue all season. Granted, the majority were Hurts fumbles or INTs, but last night really shouldn’t have been a surprise. 

The biggest problem with the offense is we refuse to play a short pass unless it's third and long, show Johnson 3rd and 2 and he'll dial up a 30 yard bomb to Brown on a go route, but show him 3rd and 19 and he'll call a screen or a 6 yard comebacks. The last 2 games have been crying out for some short slants or crossing routes over the middle, just to move the secondary around and give it something to think about, instead we go straight at at them going for chunks every series, or we have one receiver crossing and he walks into a massive hit the millisecond he receives the ball.

I keep thinking there must be more in the playbook to come out, that we're saving stuff up, but every week they trot out the same stuff and the execution is still patchy as all hell.

At least we tried a fake punt last night, first time in god knows how long (before Siri was head coach I reckon), it's a shame everything else is so vanilla.

34 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Call it a fluke but ball security played a big part in losing the SB. I just have no idea what the hell AJ even means here. The coaches stress about it all the time. Seems to be a real disconnect with coaching and players.

 

Sounds to me that he has problems with the plans and how they are executing. Give Dallas their props. They literally punched the ball out 3 times. Even when Smitty had it covered up they punched it out. If they didn't fumble away the ball I still don't see the Eagles scoring TDs and winning yesterday.

I don't understand the offense. They don't want to run designed runs to the RBs. They don't get the players in favorable matchups like I see other teams do. They rarely use motions and shifts. Their idea of running the ball is forcing the issue running the QB. Meanwhile in San Fran we see Deebo getting one on ones with Jamal Adams.

7 hours ago, ManuManu said:

Cripes… He can process but our plan against the blitz has always sucked. 

How so? Do we not have hot routes? His lateral passing to the rbs has never been good

5 minutes ago, Cochis_Calhoun said:

The biggest problem with the offense is we refuse to play a short pass unless it's third and long, show Johnson 3rd and 2 and he'll dial up a 30 yard bomb to Brown on a go route, but show him 3rd and 19 and he'll call a screen or a 6 yard comebacks. The last 2 games have been crying out for some short slants or crossing routes over the middle, just to move the secondary around and give it something to think about, instead we go straight at at them going for chunks every series, or we have one receiver crossing and he walks into a massive hit the millisecond he receives the ball.

I keep thinking there must be more in the playbook to come out, that we're saving stuff up, but every week they trot out the same stuff and the execution is still patchy as all hell.

At least we tried a fake punt last night, first time in god knows how long (before Siri was head coach I reckon), it's a shame everything else is so vanilla.

We must be so easy to gameplan for opposing defenses.

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

I’ve been saying and felt this way for about 2 months now, hurts has played 1 complete game this year and it came weeks ago against the commanders at home. Otherwise he’s been super inconsistent. He was a mvp candidate but really he wasn’t playing anywhere as consistent and frankly as close to 2022. The mvp candidates around him were not playing at the level they were until the past couple weeks. He was accumulating turnovers and fumbling the ball at an alarming rate.  

There’s times where hurrs has looked mvp-esque. He’ll be 2022 Hurts for a quarter or half or sometimes just a couple of drives. And then the other parts of the game he’s 2021 or even 2020 hurts. Where he locks on to one read. Or turns the ball over or just takes a bad sack. That’s been the story of hurts this year inconsistent with flashes of brilliance.

The issue becomesNN he cannot play as inconsistent as he has been and making the money that he is. Because you are paying him all that money, there’s gonna be flaws and weaknesses on these teams. But he has to be great and good consistently to help cover for them. We are not gonna win a Super Bowl or beat teams like Dallas or San Francisco getting that type of play out of your Qb.

im hoping it’s just a 2023 issue. I tend to think it’s just 2023 thing. but if it’s not then sadly our best chance to win a Super Bowl might have last year. I tend to believe you’re not likely going to play every year as well as your best year of your career. And you’re not as likely going to be as bad as your worst year in your career. There’s a reason why brady was amazing for what he did. Likely somewhere inbetween and you just hope it’s closer to your best year. Unfortunately that’s not the case this year.

and this isn’t letting other people off the hook. I don’t think AJ Brown has been as good over the last couple weeks even though the stats would say otherwise. I don’t think Dallas Goedert even before the injury has been good as this year. Their oline has not been as good this year. Defense is definitely not good. And the coaching has been not good situationally and game plans. What I’m just saying they need Jalen hurts to play closer and more consistent like 2022. Jalen hurts is the only thing that can help cover up a lot of these problems.

Nope, AJ Brown was not good. Maybe the worst almost 100 yard performance ever. Then there's Smith.

 

7 hours ago, D-Shiznit said:

When was the last time we beat KC before this year.

I get it, it sucks right now, but let's keep things in perspective.

Venting is normal an understandable

this is the worst they have looked under siri and hurts. Lets see how they handle adversity

28 minutes ago, Freshmilk said:

I'll actually agree with AJ.  The main worries are lack of creativity/flexibility in the offensive game planning and play calling.  Our offense has been easy to defend against San Fran and Dallas.  Limited movement, underneath junk on 3rd and long against fast/good tackling back 7s, and why bother guarding anybody other than Smith, Goedert and Brown?  Johnson is getting schooled schematically by the better defenses. 

And yet none of that matters if you can't possess the ball.

25 minutes ago, Freshmilk said:

I'll actually agree with AJ.  The main worries are lack of creativity/flexibility in the offensive game planning and play calling.  Our offense has been easy to defend against San Fran and Dallas.  Limited movement, underneath junk on 3rd and long against fast/good tackling back 7s, and why bother guarding anybody other than Smith, Goedert and Brown?  Johnson is getting schooled schematically by the better defenses. 

I keep having to remind people how heavy handed Siri is with the planning and play designs and even situational play calling. Johnson isn't making the call to fake punt at the 20 and not kick a field goal on fourth and long. Siri has his hands all over the offensive disfunction. Terrible plans and designs and a team that's not executing and at this point not bought in.

6 hours ago, devpool said:

I'm getting real tired of his quotes, they scream a dude trying to be deeper than he is. Just say you and the team Fing suck right now and leave, these idiotic quotes are just annoying 

But he says them while wearing a Malcolm X hat. He MUST be deep. I think he's just been beyond coached up his entire life. He's like a robot. I'm not raggin on him, there's so much I do like about him, but dude you just got it handed to you 2 weeks straight and the team hasn't played well all year. Just once, lose the quotes and be real with your speak.

Ringo getting called for two penalties may have been the funniest/saddest thing since McDougle getting called for two personal fouls after he threw the ref’s flag and set Matt Bryant up for the game-winning field goal against Tampa. 

6 hours ago, kiwieagle said:

Bring in Reich as consultant and Ertz as a back-up TE. 

This team needs to commit to the run a little more, sustain drives and have at least a 4th option in the passing game (Quez, OZ, Jones, Stoll ain't it) who wont get many looks but we need at least someone the D cant totally ignore

I was all in on bringing in Ertz, but when the QB doesn't throw to anyone but the top 3 guys, it doesn't matter who they have at WR3, WR4, TE2 or RB. No one else is getting the ball. Ertz would come here and talk to Julio Jones about retirement plans all game long.

We were always losing a few games in this gauntlet, that being said they are ugly and back to back. 

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

That’s a bigger issue cause smith can’t get on the field consistently and Barnett wasn’t good and brought back to be part of the rotation.

their DT rotation is brutal too. Losing suh and Joseph hurt. Relying on Cox to be a mainstay at DT at his age is ridiculous.  Wtf happened to Milton Williams? Carter and Davis it makes sense. Neither has played close to the amount of snaps they are going to see this year. And frankly neither has ever played 17 games so there was gonna likely be a drop off as the season continued. 

I had to ask myself who 93 was last night because he hasn't made a play in WEEKS. 

20 minutes ago, ToastJenkins said:

How so? Do we not have hot routes? His lateral passing to the rbs has never been good

I don’t believe we have hot routes. It’s bad. 

1 minute ago, bpac55 said:

I was all in on bringing in Ertz, but when the QB doesn't throw to anyone but the top 3 guys, it doesn't matter who they have at WR3, WR4, TE2 or RB. No one else is getting the ball. Ertz would come here and talk to Julio Jones about retirement plans all game long.

I don't think the players are bought into what's being drawn up. They look miserable and lax out there and aren't having fun. They're not attacking weaknesess. They literally have to be perfect executing to even move the ball. Getting no favors from designs that get favorable matchups. 

17 minutes ago, bpac55 said:

Nope, AJ Brown was not good. Maybe the worst almost 100 yard performance ever. Then there's Smith.

 

Drop, fumble, OPI. Just a horrible game. 

10 minutes ago, BDawk_ASamuel said:

Ringo getting called for two penalties may have been the funniest/saddest thing since McDougle getting called for two personal fouls after he threw the ref’s flag and set Matt Bryant up for the game-winning field goal against Tampa. 

Two penalties while still giving up the catch!

7 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

I don’t believe we have hot routes. It’s bad. 

If that's true... then they need to clean house in the coaches' room.  That's a fireable offense in the NFL.   This isn't the ACC where you can get away with that garbage.  This is the NFL, blitz schemes here are more complicated and the players are more talented.   You need to have an X's and O's answer to that, because alone, the Jimmie's and the Joe's can't win consistently enough.  

 

1 hour ago, Swoop said:

This team realistically needs:

At least one starting caliber safety. Reed is okay and Brown shows flashes, but still isn't there. Byard is slow and washed.

Three LBs. Cunningham and Morrow both suck and Dean is an injury prone Smurf.

Corners that aren't old and washed.

DE depth. Sweat looks gassed. Graham is leaving.

OL depth. Kelce is going to be gone soon. Lane is going to be gone soon. Jurgens has been banged up all year.

TE depth. Goedert is injury prone and our backups are garbage.

A slot WR....Quez ain't it.

New coordinators on both sides of the ball.

 

This team isn't going to seriously compete for a couple of seasons unless there is a drastic infusion of new, young talent that can play right away. It is what it is.

Sweat being gassed has really had an effect on his game and IMO, it makes him one dimensional. He's playing WAY too much and it's making him try to guess the snap count and just explode up field without any regard to contain. They need DE help in the worst way. 

Just now, bpac55 said:

Sweat being gassed has really had an effect on his game and IMO, it makes him one dimensional. He's playing WAY too much and it's making him try to guess the snap count and just explode up field without any regard to contain. They need DE help in the worst way. 

It's amazing given the investment in the DL that they don't have sufficient bodies there, especially considering that they haven't had an injury to the DE position (though they did cut Barnett).

50 minutes ago, Blazehound said:

Nolan Smith needs more snaps 

I was just getting ready to post some "positives" from the game, and they are stretches.

I think both UGA rookies, Nolan Smith and Kelee Ringo need to be on the field. Ringo, while he had an awful first snap, got hurdled by a TE and Dak/Gallup combined for a perfect pass and catch over him, was around the ball. Add that to the comments AJ Brown made during the week and IMO, the best way for Ringo to improve is to throw him in to the fire. Let him learn in real time in real NFL games. He's got to learn.

Nolan Smith was also around the ball and you could see him set the edge in his limited snaps. Sweat is playing too much. Smith has talent.