2 hours ago, Senhorcook said:

Hey now, my little piece of heaven place….I wouldn’t want to live in a big city, although Boise is rapidly getting to be one. I played all THREE sports…football, baseball, basketball. No hockey here when I was young. Loved playing baseball and was a fan of Pete Rose, Mike Schmidt, Steve Carlton Phillies’ team, but the sport is unwatchable for me as an adult. Same for the NBA. BIG Dr J fan as a kid. Alan Iverson was a thug. No thank you! So I simply lost interest in watching basketball. I’m sure it is different growing up in a town that has Pro teams from there….you connect with the teams more. Hell, I rarely got. to see the Eagles play as a kid as they were never on TV in the west. Having no pro teams here, we all have different teams we cheer for. Brothers are Steelers and Vikings fans respectively. Vikings fan grew up a Celtics fan…..vomit! Definitely different in that aspect. But everyone that knows me knows me as the diehard Eagles fan….so much so that they assume I’m FROM philly. Nope. Only been there thrice, all times were for Eagles games. Loved the visit. Would never live in a liberal city though. Have friends that are season ticket holders and live there. Good people. 

I'm not into the sports as much myself as I was as a kid.   Outside of the Philly teams I don't know much like before...except for football.   Basketball is easier to follow because they market well.   Baseball , I used to know all the lineups when I was a kid, not so much anymore.   Hockey was awesome growing up, but even now I don't know half the Flyers, so I couldn't tell you much about the league. 

But being here there is the constant sports talk and following the local teams.   It's always there on the news on the radio etc. Discussion with your friends and family etc.   

Right now is a very busy time.  3 teams are playing and the Eagles making moves. Fun time for sure. 

The boring time here is when the playoffs finish for the winter teams and just left with the Phillies still with 4 months to go and the Eagles have their down time.    

NOTHING is like during football season where we watch pretty much every play of the Eagles games... but we still follow the results of the other teams on a daily basis.

The last two Octobers with the Phillies playoff runs have been a lot of fun from a fan perspective.    Nationally it's been a great story too.  It's probably the team that's connected most with the local fanbase.   You have individual players like Kelce but as a group the Phillies definitely have been the team that's captured the hearts of the fans. 

Eagles top priority, just not same connection with all the players.   

11 hours ago, GreenbleedinNC said:

1 read and run. Sorry you don't see it

Definitely haven’t been seeing that. Several times they e even had postgame discussions about how such and such play was his third option. You are going to need to start watching the game.

11 hours ago, GreenbleedinNC said:

At any rate Hurts needs to become more of a passer. Howe spent alot to get him the tools or why have them??

Didn’t AJ set records receiving from Hurts?

11 hours ago, GreenbleedinNC said:

My bad, it was all play calling lol which accounted for 4 PPG less than 2022. 10-1 was a total farce,Joe is right on that count

Which was a miracle by Hurts and the whole O…to overcome the coaches failure to adapt or adjust. But we brought Siri back still anyway.

11 hours ago, joemas6 said:

Yeah...he called a QB run.  The rest of the world knows its the play when it's empty backfield.  It's always been the play. 

Play calling is the excuse when a dude needs help...which Hurts does as a passer.   He isn't one to change a play due to his mental IQ in the route vs coverage aspect...and certainly not grasping the concept that he can audible extra protection vs a blitz

 

Coaches need to come up with answers and adapt. They never had any answers. But sure…QB should do their jobs for them too. Everybody on the planet knows a blitz is coming yet….playcall has a long developing routes and an empty backfield. Darn QB….Hurts should have just made up his own gameplan and got rid of his earpiece.

11 hours ago, joemas6 said:

Imagine if you were a Dallas fan... they don't even have cap space for the paper or the pen needed to make that list.

They might fall back down to our level this year.

6 hours ago, Senhorcook said:

So why doesn’t he read the defense PRE snap and audible OUT of all those long routes? He saw blitz over and over those last several games and NEVER adjusted? Thats on him AND the coaches! Horrible. Not just bad, but HORRIBLE! Incontrovertibly bad QB processing.

I believe that probably was why we saw so many screen passes. That was the audible. Everybody should have been expecting a very predictable blitz D. Yet coaches were calling bad plays. This tells me straight away the coaches had zero idea how to adjust and adapt. Coaches need a plan to communicate to the QB….of when and what to audible to. Very clearly never existed. Blame the QB if you just over nobody having any answers to fix our predictable failures.

Our team had a complete fallout once the Kelly Green ran out.

Sydney Brown says he’s miles ahead in his ACL recovery

Just now, cunninghamtheman said:

Sydney Brown says he’s miles ahead in his ACL recovery

He made sure to get that in…just before the draft hehehe

Need to not play around with extending DeVonta

Wondering if Fangio will switch Maddox and Ceedy Duce as a curveball on some plays?

Having to change my mindset to reflect the current state of our team. The D is being run by the DC near autonomously.

This means personnel wise too. Every addition, trade, drop…..on the D side of things is Fangio’s doing.

Hence CGJ’s return

Reddick trade even

Huff, Baun, White…

White will likely be in more of a pass rushing role than I’ve been accustomed to for our team. Pass rushing from his position has been near nonexistent for years here. (Not suggesting it’s his full time role)

 

In 2020, 45.7 percent of defensive plays featured a light box with six or fewer defenders. This past season, that rate was 51.2 percent. There are also fewer linebackers on the field, with teams playing nickel 58.9 percent of the time in 2020 and 67.2 percent in 2023.

Just now, cunninghamtheman said:

In 2020, 45.7 percent of defensive plays featured a light box with six or fewer defenders. This past season, that rate was 51.2 percent. There are also fewer linebackers on the field, with teams playing nickel 58.9 percent of the time in 2020 and 67.2 percent in 2023.

To think these numbers are counting short yardage and goaline situations

 

Can these numbers continue on like this? Just astronomical to consider in another ten years what players will be earning.

37 minutes ago, cunninghamtheman said:

Can these numbers continue on like this? Just astronomical to consider in another ten years what players will be earning.

And that 5 million of dead cap in 2033 from kicking the can down the road will haunt us.