13 minutes ago, cunninghamtheman said:

Is there anyway you believe it’s based on him not being amongst the top 32 best options as a HC?

Harbaugh got him on the San Diego job. Think if he stays at Michigan? Bellicheat gets that job. Don’t know everything that went down with the ATL job. Making a semi-educated assumption: think he viewed that job as he needs the most power with still. Falcons don’t have a ready made situation to get him to take massive steps back in concessions of power for. It’s been rumored the Cowboys and Eagles both got feelers with him (before the seasonwas even over from us supposedly). This wouldn’t be legal…so you aren’t getting rock solid confirmation ever. Odds just tell you right there he can take whichever of us rivals fails this season again. That’s not even getting into all the scenarios with the rest of the league.  Like the Chicago job….and so on. 

80 days until the draft…just brutal. So much time to just club every prospect to death. But really thinking I’m a fan of this class. College ball has been delivering on a fresh rush of talent to the league. With these 2024 guys really topping it all off.

We have a game in Brazil this year…UGH!

I never been a fan of Bellicheat or his ways. But I would have dumped Siri for him in lost scenarios that didn’t involve giving up all GM power over to him. I don’t know how much more glaring and obvious things could have gotten with this team and a coach losing them. 10-1…team that just feel to a low depth of not being able to win a game. Couldn’t beat the Cards. Had to battle like crazy to get one victory in at all down the stretch over the lowly Giants. Completely stomped and run out of the stadium by Baker Mayfield with a team that was one game away from having their coach fired and team completely blown up. 
  Him not fixing and recognizing the issues with the O just aren’t acceptable. Can’t just blame the OC. He should have pointed out solutions himself on that side of the ball. I was embarrassed at how low a level of sophistication our O scheme and playcalling was showing. Could accept a couple games where opponents had the book on us. But never finding the adjustments and answers for all those games to finish the season? Can’t do anything with that coaching. 
  In my opinion I would fire Siri just for AJ and Hurts getting injured week 18. Team didn’t come to that game ready to ball at all in the first place. Just wasn’t anything really needed to gain week 18 for us. Watching that Cards game just can’t understand how anybody couldn’t see us looking like a worn out team. Wasn’t a large gains by winning the division or wild card. NFC playoffs teams were all going to be a challenge. Frankly think the Bucs were the easiest matchup to even have drawn. The answer week 18 was get the guys rest and healthy. Didn’t need a win and a Cowboys loss. Needed our players ready to play their best the best week…first week of the playoffs is all that mattered. The bye week had been so very long ago. Have our guys bodies able to recoup by getting that week off. More importantly what was needed was self scouting and answers. Instead filled out a tired team with no fight in them not ready to compete. Blown out by the Giants whom didn’t even have enough firepower to blow anybody out. That week 18 sealed everything for me. Siri didn’t have the answers. Didn’t get blown out in a meaningless game by a bad team because he was resting his starters. As bad as I’ve ever witnessed a whole team that wasn’t ready to play a game. No sense he risked AJ and QB1. Them both getting injured on that worst Meadowlands field was inexcusable. 
  I can’t believe we brought back the HC that just had that happen and did that! He has a very strong record to start as a HC for a younger guy and all. But I don’t even credit him for that very much anyway. He came in and started like a train wreck. Team was terrible those first six games he was in charge. Had to give things over to Steichen to right the ship. Which mostly meant just running the ball. With such an obvious team that should dominate running the ball. Stuck with that crap P all last season. Even after he suffered injury held on to him and came back to him costing us the SB. Started this season week one with Gainwell as the stud lead bell cow back. Not even just the starter. Think Swift only was given like two carries. Only reason that dumb decision was rectified was because Gainwell got injured. He was forced to turn to Swift. Swift goes off. Talent difference just shouldn’t have been even within debate and question. Swift made the Pro Bowl. That’s with the rushing game falling off the map to finish the season even. Gainwell isn’t ever making the Pro Bowl.

I’m the one that never was even viewing us as the best team. Team just was finding a way to win and overcome to get to 10-1. Wasn’t a single game I ever was thinking the team looked together and played to any levels to look for real. 11 win season was exactly at my expectations even. Just couldn’t happen the way that it actually did. Start the season 1-4. Then improve. I’d say we were the only NFC team with no chance to win. Not talking just versus the Niners. We had no chance to beat the Bucs. Green Bay…Rams…you name it. Even with my view point of the team being so much lesser than seemingly the whole rest of this boards….no way we were just short on talent to any levels to just not even be competitive. One of the worst coaching seasons I’ve witnessed in all my years watching my Eagles. Had terrible teams and such. These guys managed 11 wins under what I can’t label as anything short of incompetency.

4 minutes ago, cunninghamtheman said:

I’m the one that never was even viewing us as the best team. Team just was finding a way to win and overcome to get to 10-1. Wasn’t a single game I ever was thinking the team looked together and played to any levels to look for real. 11 win season was exactly at my expectations even. Just couldn’t happen the way that it actually did. Start the season 1-4. Then improve. I’d say we were the only NFC team with no chance to win. Not talking just versus the Niners. We had no chance to beat the Bucs. Green Bay…Rams…you name it. Even with my view point of the team being so much lesser than seemingly the whole rest of this boards….no way we were just short on talent to any levels to just not even be competitive. One of the worst coaching seasons I’ve witnessed in all my years watching my Eagles. Had terrible teams and such. These guys managed 11 wins under what I can’t label as anything short of incompetency.

I can't really remember. Worse than Kotite?

52 minutes ago, EaglesTD123 said:

We have a game in Brazil this year…UGH!

Rio is kind of weird. It's in latin America,but the language spoken is Portugese not Spanish.

2 minutes ago, EaglesTD123 said:

I’m the one that never was even viewing us as the best team. Team just was finding a way to win and overcome to get to 10-1

🤣🤣🤣😂😆 MVP MVP MVP MVP

9 minutes ago, EaglesTD123 said:

We had no chance to beat the Bucs.

Not when your QB gives up a moronic safety and the rest of the team just folds and quits because the leadership was so bad

Just now, GreenbleedinNC said:

Not when your QB gives up a moronic safety and the rest of the team just folds and quits because the leadership was so bad

MVP MVP MVP!!!

Yep, Philadelphians get to send millions of dollars to Brazil, NFL still makes the bucks

48 minutes ago, EaglesTD123 said:

We have a game in Brazil this year…UGH!

I always wanted to go to Brazil. Bucket list of going to Carnival in Rio. Biggest craziest party in the whole world. Just gorgeous voluptuous women I’ve always been a sucker for. Those I’ve met in the know warn that going to Rio for Carnival is a near setup trap though that attracts all the worst thieves and worse. That if all you get is your wallet snatched consider yourself lucky. So an Eagles game down there highly entices me. I’ve at least had a slight dabble in French, German and Spanish. Not a single clue about understanding…much less speaking Portuguese. So much of the world has a fair amount of their population that speaks English. Brazil I can’t believe would be high at all on that list. French, German or Spanish I could put a little time in to learn and become passable enough. Already been to Germany. Been to Spanish speaking countries. Struggled my short quick visit to France. Portuguese would take me a massive investment and effort to get to anything remotely passable levels to do anything but rely on translation. Internet has really improved on translating. So I’d be completely relying on whichever source I used to translate. Played games and such with people all over the world. So have a good amount of experience with communicating through completely different cultures while relying on it converting through being translated. It’s a challenge. Got keep things especially basic. Only once you experience a situation trying to communicate with such different cultures do you have any clue how much we all communicate with ideas being expressed based on what only we experience in our world. Movie, music, slang..all these references so normal. They don’t know what you are referencing…or get the meaning of our sayings. That’s before you even are talking about how that comes through being translated.

14 minutes ago, EaglesTD123 said:

no way we were just short on talent to any levels to just not even be competitive.

6-7 pro bowlers isn't enough,we need 22 of them to win

1 hour ago, EaglesTD123 said:

We have a game in Brazil this year…UGH!

We should all go 🙂

16 minutes ago, EaglesTD123 said:

I can't really remember. Worse than Kotite?

Kotite…I was possibly leaning Ray Rhodes. Chip Kelly had a good winning record here…but totally disagree with his brand of football being any thing to achieve much of anything real with. Endless fast paced O that ran so many plays each game…even forcing games to feature more possessions and plays to work with no matter what the results were…yet it was the most opportunities created that was utilized by running the fewest selection of plays each week. Wanting to play fast more than most teams could work. But throwing any D out to the wolves like that isn’t concluding in successful NFL football. 
  
  Yep…think that 11 win team was the worst glaringly bad coached season of them all. Can’t point to a single game that the team played well throughout. Can’t point to either side of the ball ever looking crisp. Or gelled together. Looked like a bunch of individuals playing even in the best of times. 
 
 

25 minutes ago, GreenbleedinNC said:

🤣🤣🤣😂😆 MVP MVP MVP MVP

Say what. LMAO I don't remember saying this. 

What team on any team..ever…did the coaches lose more than what we just witnessed? Had a shot at the top seed. Yet this team at the end couldn’t beat anybody. Pulled that single Giants win out of their butts. Took everything they could muster to win at home versus that lowly team. Look back now just believing that was a miracle for this group. 5 win team. With no real firepower on either side of the ball.

19 minutes ago, mjkline1958 said:

Yep, Philadelphians get to send millions of dollars to Brazil, NFL still makes the bucks

I'm not sending one dollar to Brazil

I can point to plenty of teams we fielded that maybe had talented players but lacked character and leadership. But how could anybody even hint at the 2023 Eagles squad lacking players leadership? Hurts, Kelce, Lane, Fletch, Slay, Elliott, BG….stacked with quality player leadership. That group can’t lead you through pretty much anything? You won’t find a stronger group to do better.

I won’t defend every bad mistake Hurts made this season. He had crap to work with though honestly. Locker room talk from our players was our O was predictable and slow developing. Got AJ, DeVonta, Goedert and Swift having guys that aren’t named Jalen Ramsey eating up knowing the expected route. Those four guys it should be such a remote rarity any team league wide should have covered those four so well on hardly any plays. Witnessed so many plays down that last stretch of games where they all struggled to find any real separation. 
  What are you asking any QB to do with playcalls and no answers on plays where expecting the blitz was clearly obvious. You going to go empty backfield to take away any adjustment possible to pass block with? While having the receiving routes being anything other than quick. AR/Pedey anything we saw from them the WR and QB would expect a blitz read meant cut your route off. Pro football here. It shouldn’t just be up to the QB. WR gotta adjust. You could try and blame the QB on not audibling to a better play. But coaches should have been explaining a solution of what they expected the audibles adjustment to be. Felt like all QB1 could do was change it to a WR screen as the only real blitz killing option provided. Tells me it’s all in the coaches. Whole stadium knows the blitz is coming. Yet coach calls such a bad play call anyway. Never showed any sign of any answers they were trying to provide Jalen he just wasn’t following. 

Too good of talent we had pass catching. Too good of talent across the Oline. All those level guys being covered and the blocking not providing protection? Why was Hurts put in so many positions to take a S or be flushed out of bounds to make the mistake of taking a two yard loss instead of throwing the ball away? In the best of times during 2023 our O revolved around Hurts scrambling to avoid pressure giving a bunch of extra time for the receivers to do their thing for him to get them the ball. Just a big play approach looking for a QB to hold the ball longer than any O should even believe consistently possible. 

Just kept begging for any quick passing game for most of the season. Then near the end they finally threw like three quick slants to AJ. Worked wildly successful. In my book something should have always been obvious. But not figuring it out…even after watching it work? They all saw it happen. Never came back to it after it was plastered right in their faces. Can’t self scout and figure out the answers is bad enough. But to see the answer and still have it not click? What can you do with anybody doing that?

The most obvious coaching I saw come through was the O staff had been clearly focusing on changing Hurts to avoid taking the hits. Do believe there is some need there to have him to make it through the long season. Him being available being so key to the team success. So limiting his risk is a good coaching point. Rather not convert a first down if it meant Hurts trying to take on two guys fighting for the sticks. Team shouldn’t have needed him to carry them to success every game and often. Enough talent on O shouldn’t have needed so much from the QB position.

  But it didn’t work out well at all. Had Hurts trying to go against his instincts. Felt like the coaching was so revolving around him avoiding taking hits he wasn’t looking to attack. What I witnessed from Hurts all season that I couldn’t stand the most. Most of his worst plays I attribute to seeing this from him. I’m all for lowering the risk on our QB and that he’s the top key to our success being achievable week to week. But gotta find some balance much better than what we just saw. Can’t take the killer instinct away from Hurts like that. He does need to lower his risk. Needs to learn to get down before taking those big hits. Throw the ball away to fight another play. But can’t have that materialize as the main coaching point that shows up on the field. 

I’ll be the only Eagles fan to bash the Brotherly Shove. Incredibly high rate of success on that play. But the toll our players took I believe was very heavy. So many plays over the course of the long NFL season. I believe this play put massive abuse to our Oline and QB’s bodies. Massive pile up every week. Bad enough how crazy the contact was just initially by a D that fully expects the play is coming. All 11 defenders crunched in being involved. I never run life because of being afraid or fear. But I want nothing to do with any NFL pile up situation. Just nasty and the dirtiest stuff going on down there. By the biggest strongest guys possible. Add to that after we embarrass the defense every time by converting the play into them giving up a first down. 

Believe if they do outlaw the play will actually be for the best. We couldn’t be stopped converting it on historic levels of success. But at what cost? Everybody else are the ones against that play. But really should be us realizing how bad it was for us.