Just now, LeanMeanGM said:

Yep. I'm not sure he has the physical tools to succeed in the NFL. And there's not really any other position you could put him at. 

Strong safety on running downs? He’s pretty fast, after all. 

1 minute ago, Cliftoma said:

Obviously, if Howie had a time machine, he would go back and sign Edwards and CjGj instead of Bradberry.  Bradberry fell of a cliff after a pretty good year last year.

I wonder if there were any analytic tables that could have predicted that...  

 

Oh yeah, a calendar.  Bradberry hit 30... and has a history of being up, then down.   Slay also has a fast approaching expiration date as well... and its sooner than his cost will come down.

Just now, Ace Nova said:

Strong safety on running downs? He’s pretty fast, after all. 

Is he a freakbeast?!?

12 minutes ago, jmac+djaxallday said:

Not bringing Edwards back was a big mistake.  He has himself to blame on that one.

Absolutely. Unless of course TJ was adamant about heading back home to Chicago anyway.

Hargraves was always a goner, but Howie should have brought Edwards, White and possibly CJ back at a cost.

 

 

2 minutes ago, Ace Nova said:

Yeah no one saw Bradberry’s drop coming.  Looks like he never recovered from his injuries. 

A lot of people did.  He's been inconsistent his entire career and turned 30 this past season.

In hindsight, one of Howie's biggest blunders was letting go of Rasul Douglas.  He's a younger, cheaper, better version of Bradberry.

 

1 minute ago, NOTW said:

 

 

Meh.  They’re both coming back just need to get the $ right. 

57 minutes ago, DawkinsOwnage03 said:

Kelce has spoken, Nick prob ain’t getting fired.

Kelce also defended Chip and Doug and they got fired.  He has defended every coach.

38 minutes ago, wussbasket said:

I don't know of a free way to find this exact stat, but this has some formation statistics that can give you a general idea - https://sumersports.com/teams/offensive/formation-tendency/

You can probably assume the top 3 formations are all not under center. There's some variance for jumbo/single, but that's at minimum 94% of snaps not under center. All but probably 10 of those jumbo plays are brotherly shoves.

1,022 plays. 20 single back. 41 jumbo. AWFUL. 

Just now, NOTW said:

 

 

That’s one hefty leader we will have on the team that can replace two at once.

7 minutes ago, Ace Nova said:

Yeah no one saw Bradberry’s drop coming.  Looks like he never recovered from his injuries. 

 Go look at Bradberry‘s career arc. His career arc says every year after he has a good/solid year then he has a decline. That happened in Carolina. It happened in New York. And then it happened in Philly. That’s been his career. It’s why the panthers let him walk and the giants cut him last year.

Solak talked about this last year when they picked him up then sheil and solak talked about it this past offseason.

pff isn’t the end all be all but they actually nailed his career. Last 8 years has been up then down then up then down 

2016: 69.6

2017: 62.6

2018: 66.4

2019: 61.6

2020: 79.8

2021: 62.4

2022: 74.1

2023: 56.6

 

5 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said:

I wonder if there were any analytic tables that could have predicted that...  

 

Oh yeah, a calendar.  Bradberry hit 30... and has a history of being up, then down.   Slay also has a fast approaching expiration date as well... and its sooner than his cost will come down.

A decline? Yes. Even a meaningful decline? Sure.

Going from 2nd team all-pro to arguably the worst cornerback in football? Yeah. Nobody called that.

6 minutes ago, Ace Nova said:

Yeah no one saw Bradberry’s drop coming.  Looks like he never recovered from his injuries. 

Hi.  I saw it coming.   Look at his career... look at his age... and move on.

1 minute ago, jmac+djaxallday said:

A lot of people did.  He's been inconsistent his entire career and turned 30 this past season.

In hindsight, one of Howie's biggest blunders was letting go of Rasul Douglas.  He's a younger, cheaper, better version of Bradberry.

Major difference is that Bradberry had excellent speed when healthy.  His speed dropped off a cliff this season which points to injury (or not recovering from injury) 

1 minute ago, Eagz said:

Absolutely. Unless of course TJ was adamant about heading back home to Chicago anyway.

I think he was which is why I can't give Howie flack for him in particular. I think it's no coincidence he was the first player in NFL free agency to sign anywhere, and it just so happened to be the team he grew up being a huge fan of in his home town.

4 minutes ago, NOTW said:

 

 

I’m fine with BG coming back but Cox can go. 

1 minute ago, NOTW said:

Kelce also defended Chip and Doug and they got fired.  He has defended every coach.

Kelce is a classy dude that would always defend the coach or his teammates.

9 minutes ago, Cliftoma said:

Obviously, if Howie had a time machine, he would go back and sign Edwards and CjGj instead of Bradberry.  Bradberry fell of a cliff after a pretty good year last year.

Respectfully, you don't need a time machine to know signing two CBs that are 30+ years old to big contracts is a bad idea.  

1 minute ago, vikas83 said:

A decline? Yes. Even a meaningful decline? Sure.

Going from 2nd team all-pro to arguably the worst cornerback in football? Yeah. Nobody called that.

He was never an all-pro caliber corner.

1 minute ago, Ace Nova said:

Meh.  They’re both coming back just need to get the $ right. 

Idk. A collapse like that should bring lots of change including leadership amongst the players. 

3 minutes ago, vikas83 said:

A decline? Yes. Even a meaningful decline? Sure.

Going from 2nd team all-pro to arguably the worst cornerback in football? Yeah. Nobody called that.

If you followed his career his career arc has shown that type of decline. He did exactly that in NY. He was great in ny his first year. I’d argue his best year as a pro. Then he completely declined to being awful. Not as bad as this year but it wasn’t much better. Why the giants released him.

pff is bad for a lot of things but they’ve nailed his career with their grades for him. 

Just now, vikas83 said:

A decline? Yes. Even a meaningful decline? Sure.

Going from 2nd team all-pro to arguably the worst cornerback in football? Yeah. Nobody called that.

The amount of decline for CBs happens very fast.   How bad was he really, compared to the safeties that were sucking right along side him?   He didn't get any help in his sucking, so you compound how bad he looks by putting complete garbage around him.  

But, I can tell you this... it was obvious that he wasn't going to be worth the contract they gave him.   And that's where Howie really gets himself stuck... overpaying for past production on aging players.   He's done this for quite some time.   And he feels he needs to because he can't draft defense... so we overpay aging defensive players and Howie just hopes it won't catch up to him... yet it always does.

1 hour ago, Mike030270 said:

It's trendy to crap on Eagles. If people were feeling this way then why didn't they speak up during the 10-1 record?

A lot of people did.  Where were you?

I was staying positive and hopeful through the ugly wins.  I didn't like the offensive play calling and was hoping it was just BJ learning on the job and he'd get better.

A LOT of fans were negative and said this is going to fall apart.  They were right.  They made no changes.  Don't you remember after wins fans would still be down because of the WAY they played?  The ugly wins turned to ugly losses, then devastating and demoralizing losses.  The coaches changed nothing on offense.  Siri made Desai the scapegoat and the defense got worse under Patricia.  

1 minute ago, jmac+djaxallday said:

He was never an all-pro caliber corner.

He was an actual all-pro last year