41 minutes ago, BigEFly said:

 

41 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

thank Howie. He is elite.

The excuse not to be good is Hurts. And apparently Nick is the scapegoat. 

Howie has put nearly all the resources into the offense... and it shows (normally... last year, the coaching scuttled them).

Meanwhile, the defense has become much more of an afterthought and was held together last season by duct tape, bailing wire and blind optimism... and it showed.

 

There needs to be a bit more balance to the roster building.  I get the lean to the offensive side, but the tilt has been quite out of balance recently.   There has been some course corrections with the draft focus... BUT, the young players haven't stepped into those roles yet.

5 minutes ago, Alphagrand said:

So, the Eagles win 26 games in a 31-game stretch and reach the Super Bowl = all the players

And, the Eagles lose 6 of 7 to end last season = all the head coach

 

Sounds a bit "scapegoat-ish" to me.

That's odd. Could have sworn they fired everyone but that 1 head coach

So if they continue to look like they did at the end of the season it's only logical that Nick needs to go

Don't worry though Howie is safe no matter what happens

30 minutes ago, Alphagrand said:

It seems that way for quite a few.

Nick was never hired to be an innovative architect in offensive play design; he was hired as a motivator, teacher, and to manage the locker room.  People seem to think the Reids, Shanahans and McVays grow on trees.  

That isn't really true. Maybe not a guy who reinvents the wheel, but he was hired because they thought he could be a top level offensive mind. Lurie said as much. He was never hired to be a CEO coach. It's what he's been relegated to.

56 minutes ago, TEW said:

Agreed.

But if the Eagles determine that keeping him isn’t financially possible or pragmatic, then they need to move on ASAP while we can extract maximum value and replace him in an extremely deep WR class.

The dead money hit to trade him this year is way too high. A post June 1 trade puts $10.5mm of dead money on 2024 (net savings of $1.6mm) but over $31mm on 2025. We aren't taking a net $30mm charge to move a productive player. If we traded him in 2025, even pre-June 1, the dead cap is only $15.4mm in 2025 with a net cap savings of over $11mm. AJ's contract is one of the few with large non-guaranteed salaries, so it makes moving on after this year doable.

8 minutes ago, Alphagrand said:

So, the Eagles win 26 games in a 31-game stretch and reach the Super Bowl = all the players

And, the Eagles lose 6 of 7 to end last season = all the head coach

 

Sounds a bit "scapegoat-ish" to me.

No one said it was all the players in that 26 game stretch... it sure seemed like the assistant coaches as well.   Then they had massive turnover in the coaching staff.   Brian Johnson was overmatched, and Sirianni offered him nearly nothing in support (at least not in terms of helpful course corrections).  In fact, the offense looked much more like the garbage they trotted out in Sirianni's first year when he was calling the plays, before he turned that over to Steichen.

Defensively, they lost their mojo when the 49ers whooped them, and then they went with the panic move and turned things over to Patricia, which by all accounts, was Sirianni's call.    

And then when we look at the coaching staff... they gutted the staff.  Johnson is gone.  The QB coach is gone.  The entire defensive staff has been overhauled... basically, only Sirianni and Stoutland remain.  (and the ST coach).

Sirianni isn't being scapegoated at all.   Quite the opposite.   He's the only domino that didn't fall of the coaching staff for the disastrous end of the season.   They made everyone else to be the fall guy.

3 minutes ago, Mike030270 said:

That's odd. Could have sworn they fired everyone but that 1 head coach

So if they continue to look like they did at the end of the season it's only logical that Nick needs to go

Don't worry though Howie is safe no matter what happens

The coordinators were the problem.  If you want to stick up for Brian Johnson and Sean Desai, feel free.  They had to go.

Firing a head coach is a huge organizational decision -- for good organizations.  You want a long term head coach in place, or you become the Jets or Chargers or Browns for 20 years.  I'd have been a staunch defender for Doug as well, but Doug insisted on keeping the unqualified interns he brought in as coordinators.  He was let go for that one main reason, and it isn't about being a "yes" man or a puppet.   

 

56 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

Id see if they can give him a 2 year extension (with the 2nd year being one that is easy to move on from). That signs him for the next 4 years. Convert a bunch of his salary these next 2 years in to guarantees, in the form of bonuses now, plus add a good chunk of added money in year 3. 

Thatll secure his services with good pay days through his year 30 season, and we can look to move on after these next 3 years. Trade or release before that 4th year kicks in.

He has salaries of $15.25mm and $30.25mm in 2025 and 2026, respectively. Convert a chunk of those (say $40mm) into guaranteed bonuses and free up a ton of cap space, give him a new singing bonus of ~$10mm, and add a couple years of non-guaranteed salary to make the numbers work.  

 

Interesting evaluation of McCarthy from Greg Cosell; I don't really agree with it, nor the rationale behind it.  "We want to see what a QB does when his team is behind 27-17 with two minutes to go, and how he performs -- and we never saw that with McCarthy."

Yeah.  That's a winning team.  How often are Alabama QBs ever asked to come back from two scores down with two minutes left?  Didn't seem to matter for Tua or Mac Jones or Bryce Young.

I've said before, I think Jayden Daniels will be the best NFL QB from this class if he can stay healthy (big IF).  He could just as easily be the next RG III if he doesn't learn to avoid hits better.  Having said that, as prospects they should be ranked:

 

1.  Caleb Williams

2.  Jayden Daniels

3.  Drake Maye

BIG drop

4.  J.J. McCarthy

another sizeable drop

5.  Michael Penix Jr.

6.  Bo Nix

25 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said:

Howie has put nearly all the resources into the offense... and it shows (normally... last year, the coaching scuttled them).

Meanwhile, the defense has become much more of an afterthought and was held together last season by duct tape, bailing wire and blind optimism... and it showed.

 

There needs to be a bit more balance to the roster building.  I get the lean to the offensive side, but the tilt has been quite out of balance recently.   There has been some course corrections with the draft focus... BUT, the young players haven't stepped into those roles yet.

The D definitely got faster this offseason. Not a little infusion of draft talent. I think DeJean goes a long way in improving it. A big time playmaker in the secondary. And if they can get 1 impact LB.... I think the D will become good.

5 hours ago, bpac55 said:

Jets go full throwback for new uniforms.

those don't look like the real throwbacks, to me.  Joe Namath wasn't wearing that helmet.

44 minutes ago, vikas83 said:

The dead money hit to trade him this year is way too high. A post June 1 trade puts $10.5mm of dead money on 2024 (net savings of $1.6mm) but over $31mm on 2025. We aren't taking a net $30mm charge to move a productive player. If we traded him in 2025, even pre-June 1, the dead cap is only $15.4mm in 2025 with a net cap savings of over $11mm. AJ's contract is one of the few with large non-guaranteed salaries, so it makes moving on after this year doable.

Yeah, I would draft his replacement this year though.

Just now, TEW said:

Yeah, I would draft his replacement this year though.

I'm not on board with taking a WR in the 1st round...maybe at 50 or 53. I think our 1st rounder will be OL, Edge or CB. If you're planning for the future, you need a post Lane plan more urgently than a post AJ plan. 

Once the draft is concludes, it's basically 3 and a half months of me jonesing for football. After the season is over, it's like damn football's over that went by too quickly. Then free agency and draft come and it's like ok this is a nice time to digest offseason stuff for a while. But once the draft is over and the weather gets warm, you enjoy summer weather for a few weeks, but then that gets old and it's like bring on week 1.

2 minutes ago, vikas83 said:

I'm not on board with taking a WR in the 1st round...maybe at 50 or 53. I think our 1st rounder will be OL, Edge or CB. If you're planning for the future, you need a post Lane plan more urgently than a post AJ plan. 

I think we have to look at players and not positions in the draft, which is why I think it is vital that we know Brown’s situation.

Obviously all things being equal the eagles will likely pick a lineman, but things are rarely equal.

For instance, Brian Thomas could very well be BPA at 22, so if Brown won’t be here long term then that changes the calculus on trading down for a team who wants him. We might want to take him for ourselves.

Or you might look at Xavier Legette as an ideal Brown replacement, which means you might want to trade down from 22 or trade up from 50 or 53 to secure him.

Or maybe we even consider trading up for one of the top WRs using future picks with the understanding that we can recoup it by trading Brown next year.

How likely is it that the secondary additions through the draft are Andru Phillips and Sione Vaki?

I sure would be underwhelmed. 

2 minutes ago, TEW said:

I think we have to look at players and not positions in the draft, which is why I think it is vital that we know Brown’s situation.

Obviously all things being equal the eagles will likely pick a lineman, but things are rarely equal.

For instance, Brian Thomas could very well be BPA at 22, so if Brown won’t be here long term then that changes the calculus on trading down for a team who wants him. We might want to take him for ourselves.

Or you might look at Xavier Legette as an ideal Brown replacement, which means you might want to trade down from 22 or trade up from 50 or 53 to secure him.

Or maybe we even consider trading up for one of the top WRs using future picks with the understanding that we can recoup it by trading Brown next year.

If Thomas is still on the board at 22, I'm calling Buffalo and seeing what they offer.

2 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

How likely is it that the secondary additions through the draft are Andru Phillips and Sione Vaki?

I sure would be underwhelmed. 

Very eagles.

Just now, Waiting4Someday said:

Very eagles.

yeah Im going to prepare myself for that. 

3 minutes ago, vikas83 said:

If Thomas is still on the board at 22, I'm calling Buffalo and seeing what they offer.

28, 128 and 133. 

3 minutes ago, Waiting4Someday said:

28, 128 and 133. 

I'd probably rather add a 2025 pick since we already have so many picks this year, but that could work as well. 

1 hour ago, LeanMeanGM said:

 

 

If history is any indication, we should all REALLY want Howie to trade out of the 20-24 range in the first round, either up or down.

You can't build Super Bowl rosters if you're constantly looking to replace players who won't be as good in 2-3 years or won't be here in 2-3 years. And I actually think Brown will be here for at least 3 more years, but regardless. They have a championship window and to some degree need to gamble on the future a bit to capitalize on it now.