15 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

I’d love to know if it was a Mike McCarthy or Kellen Moore design play. Also, what was it supposed to look like if it worked?

In some ways, it was smart.  Those plays are dependent on lots and lots of laterals, etc.  And the QB's job is to get the ball out quick.  So... having OL on the field makes no real difference.  BUT... a one man line is just a bizarre set up.  

 

18 hours ago, McMVP said:

@VaBeach_Eagle’s current one, but the pain was minimal.  And hatts off to him for doing it the way he did… I thank him that my favorite online destination did not have to go away.

 

 

1 hour ago, Random Reglar said:

are we going to get that?  I don't think we're going to get that.

Running Back Centers are not best.

7 minutes ago, NOTW said:

Running Back Centers are not best.

41 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

 

 

3 hours ago, pgcd3 said:

I wouldn't write Brian Johnson's whole career off because he wasn't good last year.  Steichen was not very good in his first season as a coordinator in San Diego.  But from an Eagles perspective Brian Johnson wasn't good enough last year and they upgraded to someone with much more proven experience

Agreed, last season should be the worst season of his career if he's smart. A whole lot of failure to learn and grow from. If he goes somewhere with a HC who actually knows a thing or two I think he'll be fine. Getting his first OC gig under sirianni is like a rookie QB going to NY (either team)

 

 

4 hours ago, NCiggles said:

I think he too often focused on AJ or Devonta.  I am not sure how often he passed up open throws downfield.  I think he was too reliant on his mobility and did not take outlet throws when he should have.  I think part of it was a flaw in the design of the offense.  It seems like they often had AJ or Devonta as the primary read and they needed to design more plays where a RB was the primary read out of the backfield.  

He did.  Teams knew the tendencies, played up on it and it was something the coaches should have been a lot harder on Hurts for.doing  Be interesting to see if Moore and Doug Nussmeier can break that tendency.

4 hours ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

I would still love to know how they thought that play with zeke was ever gonna Fing work

I still think it was a good call. Dead serious. You’re pretty much screwed going in since you have to score from a mile away and you know you’re going to have to do a bunch of laterals and hope for the best. And frankly you’re better off taking out a big fat lineman who doesn’t routinely handle the football and replace him with a skill position player who might be able to make a play with the ball in the open field if he gets a chance. It was never expected to "work”. But I think it improved their chances from maybe 1% to 1.5%. 

I laughed at the result just like everyone else did. But I’m also willing to see the logic in their plan.

8 minutes ago, FranklinFldEBUpper said:

I still think it was a good call. Dead serious. You’re pretty much screwed going in since you have to score from a mile away and you know you’re going to have to do a bunch of laterals and hope for the best. And frankly you’re better off taking out a big fat lineman who doesn’t routinely handle the football and replace him with a skill position player who might be able to make a play with the ball in the open field if he gets a chance. It was never expected to "work”. But I think it improved their chances from maybe 1% to 1.5%. 

I laughed at the result just like everyone else did. But I’m also willing to see the logic in their plan.

Yup.   Said the same thing.   You want fast guys that are used to handling the ball out there in a situation like that, which is one of the reasons why the plays that happen like this on kick returns seem to have a much higher rate of success.   You need to find a way to quickly set up a wall of blockers to outflank the defense... and guys used to running with the ball, catching the ball and blocking (Running backs) might be the best of all possible choices for a play like that.

58 minutes ago, FranklinFldEBUpper said:

I still think it was a good call. Dead serious. You’re pretty much screwed going in since you have to score from a mile away and you know you’re going to have to do a bunch of laterals and hope for the best. And frankly you’re better off taking out a big fat lineman who doesn’t routinely handle the football and replace him with a skill position player who might be able to make a play with the ball in the open field if he gets a chance. It was never expected to "work”. But I think it improved their chances from maybe 1% to 1.5%. 

I laughed at the result just like everyone else did. But I’m also willing to see the logic in their plan.

I think the issue with the play was more zeke snapping then having to immediately block after snapping as a center if the niners decided to just bullrush him . He's never played center so it’s different than him picking up a guy pass pro. I get replacing with a guy that can make a play with the ball in the open field that’s a skill position player. frankly I’d probably have used my long snapper to do it. I trust he’d probably be able to snap and then block better than zeke who’s never done it as a center. And he’s likely more athletic than my normal center. But i think the play was doomed if the niners just decided to bull rush zeke cause he’snever dealt that as a center with everything that a center has to deal with if that occurs and had no help    

19 hours ago, McMVP said:

Skip Bayless‘s career seems to be finally coming to an end.  Can’t say that I’m sorry to hear this news…

Must have ran out of Dak jerseys to dramatically throw in the trash.

Forgive my ignorance but why might Skip Bayless’s career be over?

18 minutes ago, just relax said:

Forgive my ignorance but why might Skip Bayless’s career be over?

From what I can tell he is leaving that stupid show out of nowhere, no one on either side is saying anything and there is no buzz about him going somewhere else. 

 

So there is either a no complete clause or he is disappearing 

5 hours ago, Iggles25 said:

 

 But would you tongue punch her fart box?

1 hour ago, paco said:

From what I can tell he is leaving that stupid show out of nowhere, no one on either side is saying anything and there is no buzz about him going somewhere else. 

 

So there is either a no complete clause or he is disappearing 

Skip Bayless has crossed several lines in his career…but this all comes from his stupid tweet after the Demar Hamlin incident.  The one that rubbed so many people the wrong way, and why Sharpe no-showed the next day.  Truth be told, it was just the last straw for any remaining supporters of Skip.  He tried to make it work with others on the show, but ratings failed (no surprise)

Anyone else worried about an international incident after the Eagles win in Brazil; and Sirianni begins to turn to the bleachers….

 

2 hours ago, just relax said:

Forgive my ignorance but why might Skip Bayless’s career be over?

Don't you know? People post info with no context and assume everyone knows every news update. 

The Lakers are in big trouble now too.

2 minutes ago, Aerolithe_Lion said:

Anyone else worried about an international incident after the Eagles win in Brazil; and Sirianni begins to turn to the bleachers….

 

Siri will be recovering from a hangover and on a cocktail of uppers & energy drinks and probably spark an international incident. 

3 hours ago, Know Life said:

 But would you tongue punch her fart box?

5 hours ago, paco said:

From what I can tell he is leaving that stupid show out of nowhere, no one on either side is saying anything and there is no buzz about him going somewhere else. 

 

So there is either a no complete clause or he is disappearing 

He's boxing Jake Paul I heard.

1 hour ago, LeanMeanGM said:

8 hours ago, Know Life said:

 But would you tongue punch her fart box?

 

21 hours ago, Iggles_Phan said:

In some ways, it was smart.  Those plays are dependent on lots and lots of laterals, etc.  And the QB's job is to get the ball out quick.  So... having OL on the field makes no real difference.  BUT... a one man line is just a bizarre set up.  

Let's go to the tape: