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

OK, so watching the replay of this game, I don’t know what the official was looking at after the first and goal.  Barkley was definitely closer to the 1 than it where they spotted it at the 2. So when he got to that third goal, they would have been about a half yard to a yard closer to getting the touchdown 

I even thought the nose of the ball touched the goal line on the 3rd down before his elbow hit. It was CLOSE, but the ball just has to cross the plain, which it did. Thought it should have been looked at again. We're also lucky that Lane false started because the 4th down Tush push wasn't called a TD and I don't know if there was enough evidence showing that it was.

That play call sequence was frustrating as hell though. The pistol runs up the middle were getting stopped and they kept going back to it. The footing wasn't the best, but I would have been happy with 2 or even 3 straight tush pushes. At least with that play, the ball is moving forward from the LOS, not 4 yards behind from the handoff position in the pistol. With the success rate the Eagles have, I would have put my faith in them finding their footing, especially if they went full tush push with Goedert and a RB pushing from the back.

-Not a single snap for Bryce Huff.

-44 for Milton Williams, 17 for Jordan Davis. Don't let Williams leave this building. 

-Carter only missed 2 snaps. 

-Nolan Smith and Josh Sweat were on the field A LOT. I was worried the pass rush was just gassed the last 2 drives.

-Dotson was on the field for more than half the snaps and never gets a look.

-Only 6 snaps for Gainwell and he got 20 yards on his 2 touches. In a game where the QB wasn't good, why they didn't lean more no Gainwell to compliment Barkley is beyond me. I'm one of the loudest he's a JAG guy, but clearly he was a net positive in this game. Use that to your advantage. 

 

1 minute ago, bpac55 said:

-Not a single snap for Bryce Huff.

-44 for Milton Williams, 17 for Jordan Davis. Don't let Williams leave this building. 

-Carter only missed 2 snaps. 

-Nolan Smith and Josh Sweat were on the field A LOT. I was worried the pass rush was just gassed the last 2 drives.

-Dotson was on the field for more than half the snaps and never gets a look.

-Only 6 snaps for Gainwell and he got 20 yards on his 2 touches. In a game where the QB wasn't good, why they didn't lean more no Gainwell to compliment Barkley is beyond me. I'm one of the loudest he's a JAG guy, but clearly he was a net positive in this game. Use that to your advantage. 

 

not a single snap for huff is absolutely insane.  This guy must be an absolute waste of space.  How could they have been so wrong here.  I just don't get it.

Jalen Carter is so good. That is all. 

3 minutes ago, bpac55 said:

-Not a single snap for Bryce Huff.

-44 for Milton Williams, 17 for Jordan Davis. Don't let Williams leave this building. 

-Carter only missed 2 snaps. 

-Nolan Smith and Josh Sweat were on the field A LOT. I was worried the pass rush was just gassed the last 2 drives.

-Dotson was on the field for more than half the snaps and never gets a look.

-Only 6 snaps for Gainwell and he got 20 yards on his 2 touches. In a game where the QB wasn't good, why they didn't lean more no Gainwell to compliment Barkley is beyond me. I'm one of the loudest he's a JAG guy, but clearly he was a net positive in this game. Use that to your advantage. 

 

Williams gets extended over Sweat

Just now, EaglePhan1986 said:

Jalen Carter is so good. That is all. 

Glad the dumbarse bears traded with us so we could get him

Smith is now the franchise holder for most receiving yards in the postseason. Passed Carmichael yesterday 

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

OK, so watching the replay of this game, I don’t know what the official was looking at after the first and goal.  Barkley was definitely closer to the 1 than it where they spotted it at the 2. So when he got to that third goal, they would have been about a half yard to a yard closer to getting the touchdown 

 

8 minutes ago, bpac55 said:

I even thought the nose of the ball touched the goal line on the 3rd down before his elbow hit. It was CLOSE, but the ball just has to cross the plain, which it did. Thought it should have been looked at again. We're also lucky that Lane false started because the 4th down Tush push wasn't called a TD and I don't know if there was enough evidence showing that it was.

That play call sequence was frustrating as hell though. The pistol runs up the middle were getting stopped and they kept going back to it. The footing wasn't the best, but I would have been happy with 2 or even 3 straight tush pushes. At least with that play, the ball is moving forward from the LOS, not 4 yards behind from the handoff position in the pistol. With the success rate the Eagles have, I would have put my faith in them finding their footing, especially if they went full tush push with Goedert and a RB pushing from the back.

The spots for almost every game (not just Eagles games) seem to be off this season.  They seemed to be "ok” for the most part towards the beginning of the game yesterday but then the few spots you both are discussing it started happening again. 
 

I’m wondering if the league has given officials some sort of directive to make spots conservative instead of where "they actually think it could be”.  Basically has told the officials to spot the ball where it is guaranteed they "at least” got to vs where they think they may have  gotten to. 
 

If that’s the case then it’s time the league began placing some sort of laser scanners across the field where the actual "first down” line is and go that direction.   They could also highlight the edges of the lines with a smaller bold lines so that it becomes more apparent when the nose of the ball crosses the plane. 
 

Some of the spots this year have been close to a yard short (not necessarily yesterday) but I’ve seen it over and over again this season in games across the league. 

I guess I expected Dotson to be all by himself when Kempski first mentioned it. Maybe Hurts thought the safety could break on the ball?

6 hours ago, HazletonEagle said:

That's why I said our DTs are about to feast.

Big. 

Big if true

21 minutes ago, bpac55 said:

I even thought the nose of the ball touched the goal line on the 3rd down before his elbow hit. It was CLOSE, but the ball just has to cross the plain, which it did. Thought it should have been looked at again. We're also lucky that Lane false started because the 4th down Tush push wasn't called a TD and I don't know if there was enough evidence showing that it was.

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It was ruled a TD by the side official that's why everyone was celebrating...terrible spot by the ref on previous play also.

12 minutes ago, bpac55 said:

-Not a single snap for Bryce Huff.

-44 for Milton Williams, 17 for Jordan Davis. Don't let Williams leave this building. 

-Carter only missed 2 snaps. 

-Nolan Smith and Josh Sweat were on the field A LOT. I was worried the pass rush was just gassed the last 2 drives.

-Dotson was on the field for more than half the snaps and never gets a look.

-Only 6 snaps for Gainwell and he got 20 yards on his 2 touches. In a game where the QB wasn't good, why they didn't lean more no Gainwell to compliment Barkley is beyond me. I'm one of the loudest he's a JAG guy, but clearly he was a net positive in this game. Use that to your advantage. 

 

It's the playoffs, the bench shortens.  Though Huff is a major disappointment.

I know it wasn’t pretty and our heart rate was way up on the last Rams drive, but the Birds WON the game and we’re going to have the NFC Championship game at the Linc on Sunday. 
 

Let’s enjoy that until we have to battle a really tough Commanders team.

 

 

8 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

I guess I expected Dotson to be all by himself when Kempski first mentioned it. Maybe Hurts thought the safety could break on the ball?

This play is obviously AI.

I've been told this team never has open players because Kellen Moore is the antichrist

6 hours ago, HazletonEagle said:

That's why I said our DTs are about to feast.

Big. 

Key will be keeping Daniels contained on 2nd and 3rd and long.  No Dean doesn't help, but Smith and Sweat are going to have to be mindful and not get too inside on their rushes.  Daniels loves to take off going right and has been very successful extending drives that way.  Also, he will throw the ball up when pressured if he can't escape.

Nolan Smith is getting credit, but not enough.

4 minutes ago, Swoop said:

This play is obviously AI.

I've been told this team never has open players because Kellen Moore is the antichrist

I think Moore has done a really good job for the most part this season.

My concerns arrive with situational play calling and playing to the team’s strengths during specific situations instead of "just calling” a play. 

4 minutes ago, Swoop said:

This play is obviously AI.

I've been told this team never has open players because Kellen Moore is the antichrist

I ripped Hurts plenty so I’m not being a Hurts homer, but I think the footing played a role. In normal circumstances he could throw a pass that would flatten Dotson’s route to the sideline and keep the safety out of the play. Maybe he didn’t think that was an option. We saw Nacua have a really bad time trying to track a deep ball because he couldn’t change directions at all. We also saw some out routes die because receivers were turning like tug boats. 

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

Agree with all this. I think the one thing the defense has to clean up from this game is big plays. Rams had plays of 48, 37,30, 30, 21, 20, 20. The commanders really thrive on big plays like that. Particularly mclaurin and Daniels running. 

There was going to be chunk plays in that game due to the conditions the corners were playing off 5 to 10.yards to make sure they could get the tackle and not slip and get beat 

3 minutes ago, Freshmilk said:

Key will be keeping Daniels contained on 2nd and 3rd and long.  No Dean doesn't help, but Smith and Sweat are going to have to be mindful and not get too inside on their rushes.  Daniels loves to take off going right and has been very successful extending drives that way.  Also, he will throw the ball up when pressured if he can't escape.

We have been pretty bad at rush discipline. 

Just now, tuffstuff07 said:

There was going to be chunk plays in that game due to the conditions the corners were playing off 5 to 10.yards to make sure they could get the tackle and not slip and get beat 

Yep. Even the 48-yarder was basically a miracle completion. I was impressed with our ability to slow their WR screen game down. I thought we’d get peppered with Nacua screens. 

1 minute ago, ManuManu said:

I ripped Hurts plenty so I’m not being a Hurts homer, but I think the footing played a role. In normal circumstances he could throw a pass that would flatten Dotson’s route to the sideline and keep the safety out of the play. Maybe he didn’t think that was an option. We saw Nacua have a really bad time trying to track a deep ball because he couldn’t change directions at all. We also saw some out routes die because receivers were turning like tug boats. 

I'm not upset about that play honestly. Crappy conditions and yes, maybe he thought they could break off and jump it.

I'm more so poking fun at the people that continue to pound the table that no ones ever open when that's been proven wrong time and time again.

2 minutes ago, Ace Nova said:

I think Moore has done a really good job for the most part this season.

My concerns arrive with situational play calling and playing to the team’s strengths during specific situations instead of "just calling” a play. 

Like the safety play. I would hope Hurts could change out of that and he had open players, but it was still a dumb call 

Moore has his issues too and I would never say he doesn't, but a lot of our passing struggles over the past few years stems from one person.

22 minutes ago, EaglePhan1986 said:

Jalen Carter is so good. That is all. 

He saved the season yesterday. Cosmi injury for Washington is massive for next week’s game. 

24 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

I guess I expected Dotson to be all by himself when Kempski first mentioned it. Maybe Hurts thought the safety could break on the ball?

Not sure what the route was, but Dotson was fading right into that safety.  Hurts could have thrown it still, but a route breaking hard to the sidelines would have really been open. 

I think he was also looking at that LB. If Hurts would have waited a tick longer he probably would have seen the LB break towards Goedert, thus opening that window behind the LB.

Seems like we were begging for stunts and twists like this for years. Glad to have an awesome DC here.