6 minutes ago, judunno said:

He can certainly be benched if someone out plays him. They'll keep him around for depth because why not given the potential hit.

I'll have to see it to believe it. The fact that they started him against the Bucs when he was getting absolutely abused prior was madness.

2 minutes ago, Frankfurteagle89 said:

Idk, it just seems something happened in that locker room and Siri couldn’t stop the bleeding. There just has to be more than they all of a sudden played horrible and didn’t even try against the Bucs.

I suspect the mercenaries/late FA acquisitions spoiled the bunch and caused a rift. That's my take and I'm sticking with it.

12 minutes ago, Outlaw said:

You're not an Eagles fan, RAShole. They started 10-1 and made it as a wildcard after embarrassing losses to 2 of the worst teams in the league. Then they were destroyed in every conceivable way by a 9-win team. 

If you start 10-1, you shouldn't be lucky to have made the playoffs at all....

Question -- assuming Kelce and Cox retire, can they wait until after June 1 to file paperwork and therefore be treated as a post June 1 release for cap purposes but not use one of our 2 slots for releasing a player and designating them post June 1? If they can, then Bradberry can be a post June 1 cut and basically have zero savings. If not, Bradberry is definitely back.

Since a post June 1 release on Bradberry only saves $150k, you almost have to bring him to training camp and see if he is any better. You can always cut him after that. But might as well take a free look at him in training camp -- maybe you get lucky and find a way to put him on IR.

Just now, bitbased said:

I'll have to see it to believe it. The fact that they started him against the Bucs when he was getting absolutely abused prior was madness.

They were all getting abused unfortunately. Just an epic fail from a personnel perspective. Hopefully they fix it. They couldn't play man, couldn't play zone, couldn't blitz, couldn't tackle. It was some of the worst play that I've ever seen an Eagles team field. A huge part of it was talent or lack there of.

10 minutes ago, RLC said:

My LB1

Mine as well. Might be my biggest realistic wishlist guy on day 1 or 2.

4 minutes ago, judunno said:

I suspect the mercenaries/late FA acquisitions spoiled the bunch and caused a rift. That's my take and I'm sticking with it.

So you suspect that only the defensive guys were the cause of the locker room rift? Just seems that both units had issues, although the defense was historically bad.

7 minutes ago, RLC said:

 

Choice between Dejean and McKinstry... nice.

4 hours ago, aptosbird said:

a time consuming drive to put a game away or a 4 minute offense..

that was bad in 2023 because the Eagles don't have a big back.  Some have been saying all year that the Eagles needed a big back.   Some were saying "try Michigan Wolverines Fullback Ben VanSumeren for that."     But the Eagles coaches said "but "do it like last year" didn't include VanSumeren,  so we can't do that"

Ideally,  you want a Fullback,  or some giant OL/DL versatile freakbeast who is doing blocking,  AND a big running back who will carry the ball. 

Taking the light players (D. Smith) off the field,  for any reason at all, was just not something the Eagles coaches ever did.

Howie provided a lot of versatile freakbeasts and the coaches didn't use the versatility of any of them.   Using the versatile freakbeasts that Howie provided (a lot of them, an impressive amount of them)  would have solved the "we can't get the first down we need to run out the clock and win the game" problem.

Recently republished quote from Siri something like "we are not going to do anything new or different this year,  we are not going to practice doing anything new or different this year.  Only Hurts to Brown, Smith, Goedert."  was something that people were noticing all year.

Siri and Shane knew each other for years.  They were with the Chargers a long time, as Offensive assistants,  QB coach,   WR coach, etc.   And I can remember how the Chargers lost games because they were so terrible at getting first downs on the ground in the 4th Q.  They'd get the ball with 2 minutes left,  throw 3 incomplete passes,  and punt after 30 seconds and lose.   They think that's normal or ok.

I am fascinated by the TJ Edwards story. 

But I don't care about TJ Edwards.  Or Howie's mistake in letting him go.  TJ Edwards isn't Ray Lewis.  His presence would have helped, but would not have prevented the Eagles from embarrassing themselves this year.  Howie has screwed WAY bigger pooches than this.  

What fascinates me is that...the moment TJ Edwards signed with Chicago...and multiple times when his quality play was acknowledged this year...the narrative was aggressively pushed that TJ Edwards wasn't a mistake.  His departure was an inevitability.  He only wanted to go to Chicago.  There was nothing they could do.  And now we hear that he wanted to stay.

Why?  Who?  The degree of misinformation and the multiple sources (including posters here) pushing the false narrative about this were coordinated and effective.  I wonder how deep the PR/buzz rabbit hole goes with controlling stories.

4 hours ago, Penn7980 said:

If they think it could, then they should hire their coaches to build the system with our team.

Last year at this time, the Georgia DC was under consideration and he should be now.

2 hours ago, vikas83 said:

Well, Johnson did lead a Florida offense that scored 40 points per game. Maybe the league really is putting all of this on Nick?

 

 

I wouldn't be surprised if they are waiting/hoping that BJ gets hired somewhere else so they can not have to fire anyone, get two 3rd round picks for losing a minority coach and then replace the OC and chalk it up to overall team struggles, point to stats, etc.  Then fire Desai and Patricia and get a new DC and Howie will make the usual cheap band-aid signings in the back 7 then draft a lineman in the 1st then some back 7 help after that.

12 minutes ago, vikas83 said:

Question -- assuming Kelce and Cox retire, can they wait until after June 1 to file paperwork and therefore be treated as a post June 1 release for cap purposes but not use one of our 2 slots for releasing a player and designating them post June 1? If they can, then Bradberry can be a post June 1 cut and basically have zero savings. If not, Bradberry is definitely back.

Since a post June 1 release on Bradberry only saves $150k, you almost have to bring him to training camp and see if he is any better. You can always cut him after that. But might as well take a free look at him in training camp -- maybe you get lucky and find a way to put him on IR.

Yes. Kelce's contract is structured for him to wait to file retirement papers. 

Cox is a different story though.

1 hour ago, LeanMeanGM said:

This team is so predictable. We'll find out Sirianni isn't getting fired between 4 and 5 today. 

Interesting that WIP has been defending firing coaches after going to the Super Bowl this afternoon - just named several of them.  
 

Could be nothing but then again, WIP does seem to have some sort of connection with the Eagles brass. 

Very sad about Sports Illustrated.  I read it religiously for 15+ years as a kid.  I still have a few of them around that I saved.

2 hours ago, Mike030270 said:

If that was true then why didn't he go to his HC and challenge the stupid game plan? Offer some insight and say something like "maybe we shouldn't do that"

Shane obviously offered better insight and support than Brian

We don't know what he did or didn't do.  Maybe he tried, and Siri put him in his place.  Siri was stubborn last year and not running the ball.  The offense wasn't performing and Steichen took over.  He then got a HC job and resurrected the Cardinals.  Maybe Siri didn't want his OC getting the attention.  Maybe his comments about it being his offense were covering for the first time OC.  Maybe that's one reason Hurts is frustrated, that he and BJ can see the problems but Nick is overruling them.

Who knows?  We seem to always question who's REALLY running things.  Some people think it's all dictated by the front office and analytics and none of the coaches actually have say.

Usually, the Head Coach is in charge and has to take the blame.  It's not just the offense, but the defense too.  He swapped Desai for Patricia and things actually got worse.  What did Nick do to game plan for the defense? Plus, if the OC were questioning the HC too much and being insubordinate, fans would say he should know his role and respect the coach.  Always a different way to look at it.

The people DO know are inside the NovaCare complex.  Curious to see what they decide.

30 minutes ago, Texas Eagle said:

Anyone taking Lions -6.5?

Yup

9 minutes ago, eagle45 said:

His departure was an inevitability.  He only wanted to go to Chicago.  There was nothing they could do.  And now we hear that he wanted to stay.

Where did you hear this?

2 minutes ago, RLC said:

Where did you hear this?

That he wanted to stay?

16 minutes ago, RLC said:

 

Wow. Odunze at 5th overall? His favorite player in the draft? Thats odd. Odunze looks good to me, but doesnt look like a guy who will be dominant.

DeJean at 27, and McKinstry at 31- Id trade down.

6 minutes ago, DrPhilly said:

Very sad about Sports Illustrated.  I read it religiously for 15+ years as a kid.  I still have a few of them around that I saved.

Yeh I used to subscribe about 25 years ago. Kids became more costly so I let the subscription go.

3 minutes ago, eagle45 said:

That he wanted to stay?

Yes.

24 minutes ago, RLC said:

 

Wouldn't hate picking Guyton.

But would hate passing on Dejean and McKinstry in that scenario.

Hopefully SI will just at least print a swimsuit issue. No need for the rest of the issues.